Monday, October 13, 2014
A revival of the 1953 Cole Porter musical “Can-Can” at Paper Mill Playhouse stars Kate Baldwin and Jason Danieley.
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In “While I Yet Live,” Billy Porter’s depiction of one family’s dramas over 10 years, S. Epatha Merkerson plays the mother at the center enduring the storms.
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In Robert Wilson and Rufus Wainwright’s “Shakepeare’s Sonnets,” actors from the Berlin Ensemble caper about to musical accompaniment as the poetry is recited or sung in German.
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“When January Feels Like Summer,” a romantic comedy by Cori Thomas, reopened at the Ensemble Studio Theater in Manhattan.
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“Tail! Spin!,” a comedy revisiting hanky-panky-in-high-office scandals, opened at the Lynn Redgrave Theater on Wednesday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Shakespeare’s Globe “King Lear,” presented at N.Y.U.’s Skirball Center, takes an informal and even festive approach to the tragedy.
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Sunday, September 21, 2014
Thursday, September 18, 2014
In A. R. Gurney’s “Love Letters,” Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow animate an epistolary romance — never consummated — that lasts from youth to old age.
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Tuesday, September 16, 2014
The musical “Bull Durham,” adapted from the 1988 movie and making its premiere at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, feels more formulaic than inspired.
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Nico, the 1960s chanteuse and muse to musical greats of the time, is resurrected by the singer and performance artist Tammy Faye Starlite in “Nico: Underground.”
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“Bootycandy,” Robert O’Hara’s searing and sensationally funny comedy, looks at attitudes toward gays in black culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMSylvester, the flamboyant androgyne and disco diva, has now become fodder for the latest jukebox musical.
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A musical twist of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” presented in Central Park by the Public Theater, spritzes the post-summer air with an invigorating sense of excitement and disco…
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Four short plays examine various aspects of “Miss Julie,” August Strindberg’s 1888 drama about a chauffeur and the boss’s daughter.
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A. R. Gurney’s “The Wayside Motor Inn,” being revived by the Signature Theater Company, presents five short dramas spliced together.
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Innovative musical theater Off Broadway is having a fertile season, with characters including superheroes, a serial killer and Alexander Hamilton.
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In the play “And I and Silence,” two prisoners form a bond in prison while contemplating a future on the outside.
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“Wicked,” which passed the 10-year mark last fall, evinces little sign of box office fatigue, especially among tweens.
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“Family Album,” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is a new musical about a band, by Stew and Heidi Rodewald.
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“The Great Society,” at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is the second installment in Robert Schenkkan’s Lyndon B. Johnson saga.
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Revisiting “The Phantom of the Opera,” the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber tale of love, obsession and murder.
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The Stratford Festival presents an opportunity to relate the themes of Shakespeare’s seldom-staged history play “King John” to those of “King Lear.”
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Peter Sellars directed only one of two productions of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, but his touch can be seen in both.
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In “The Opponent,” Brett Neveu’s play at the 59E59 Theaters, a young fighter preparing for a big match pops by his old gym to see his onetime trainer.
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Wednesday, July 30, 2014
Anna Gunn and Billy Magnussen star in “Sex With Strangers,” a twisty and timely new play by Laura Eason, at Second Stage Theater.
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A young woman finds herself caught between her rich but abusive husband and her lesbian lover in Tanya Saracho’s new play “Mala Hierba.”
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