WordPlay Shakespeare and other programs allow readers to watch or listen to sections of his works as they view the text.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:15PMWhere and how to ring in the New Year is a perennial question. If you’re feeling festive and want to make a full night of it, there are several theater-related offerings to choose from.&nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:26AMIn “A Piece of Work,” presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Fishman Space, the text of “Hamlet” has been run through computer algorithms to disorienting effect. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:16PMIn “The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic,” Robert Wilson stages the life and imaginary death of this performance artist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PM“The Rime of the Ancient Mariner” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater brings together poetry and motion in a stage and dance interpretation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMNew plays by Amy Herzog and Annie Baker — as well as usual classics and unusual genres — are among a year’s most pleasurable productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PM“The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence” weaves love and machines into its plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAlessandri Ferri and Herman Cornejo play lovers of very different ages in “Chéri,” a dramatically muted but gorgeously danced new work from the choreographer Martha Clarke. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“What’s It All About? Bacharach Reimagined,” a musical revue at New York Theater Workshop, digs into the melancholy in many of the hits that Mr. Bacharach wrote with Hal David. &n…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Bodycast,” Frances McDormand does a dramatic reading of the artist Suzanne Bocanegra’s musings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:14PM“One Night...,” A timely new play by Charles Fuller, tackles issues around sexual assault in the armed forces.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMFrances McDormand takes to the intimate Fishman Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to portray Suzanne Bocanegra giving a lecture in “Bodycast.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28AMThe new play “And Away We Go,” at the Pearl Theater, is Terrence McNally’s love letter to theater through the centuries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMA. R. Gurney’s “Family Furniture” is a tender, sepia-toned play about a traumatic passage in the lives of a tight-knit, well-bred clan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PM“How I Learned What I Learned,” a memoir in monologue written and originally performed by August Wilson, is now being delivered by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMBlythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker are a mother and daughter with emotional and financial issues at their feet in “The Commons of Pensacola,” by the actress Amanda Peet. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA Times critic admits to feeling envy in response to readers’ picks of the best actors they ever saw perform in William Shakespeare’s plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMIn Meghan Kennedy’s “Too Much, Too Much, Too Many,” a daughter tries to draw her mother out of her room, where she’s been bunkered since her husband died.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA casual reunion of three longtime buddies betrays a darker purpose in “Small Engine Repair,” a raw, funny and well-tooled new play written by and featuring John Pollono. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“A Gentleman’s Guide to Love and Murder,” now on Broadway, turns the Alec Guinness movie classic “Kind Hearts and Coronets” into a musical, with Jefferson Mays in eight roles. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Little Miss Sunshine,” a musical adaptation of the popular indie film, centers on a frazzled family’s road trip to a children’s beauty pageant in California.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMWhen it comes to Shakespeare, most actors are merely players. What does it take to become a master?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:17AMMarlane Meyer’s comedy-drama “The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters,” at Playwrights Horizons, explores the seemingly inexplicable romance between a doctor and an unemployed jar factory wor…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Mutilated,” a rarely seen Tennessee Williams comedy, is being boisterously revived in a production starring the quirky team of Penny Arcade and Mink Stole.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:31PM“La Soirée,” a hybrid of circus and burlesque show at the Union Square Theater, offers quirky twists on classic routines.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAn adaptation of “An Enemy of the People,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, updates the play into a critique of modern society.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PM“Murder for Two,” a vaudevillian mystery musical with an energetic two-man cast, is now playing at New World Stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Nothing to Hide,” the magicians Helder Guimarães and Derek DelGaudio mesmerize the audience with nothing more (or less) than playing cards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Disaster!,” a musical at the St. Luke’s Theater, trawls through plotlines and characters from 1970s movies like “The Poseidon Adventure” as well as ’70s pop music. &n…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:16PM“After Midnight,” on Broadway, time-travels back to the heyday of the Cotton Club as it moves through more than 25 songs from the jazz era.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“A Midsummer Night’s Dream” may have earned its high berth on the Shakespeare hit parade because it’s a bundle of high-spirited hijinks, but its view of love is divided. &…
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