“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. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:45PM“The Last Goodbye,” based on “Romeo and Juliet,” relies on Jeff Buckley’s music to supply the emotional resonance and depth of character established by Shakespeare’s verse. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PM“Nothing to Hide” is a slick, smart new magic show starring two young talents, Helder Guimarães and Derek DelGaudio.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PMFoundry Theater’s sublime production of Bertolt Brecht’s “Good Person of Szechwan” reopens at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Irish Repertory Theater revives “Juno and the Paycock,” Sean O’Casey’s classic about a buffeted Dublin family, with J. Smith-Cameron in the title role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PMIn J C Lee’s “Luce,” a provocative essay forces parents to question how well they know their son.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“A Time to Kill,” a new Broadway play adapted from the John Grisham novel, moves through a tale of rape, murder and justice amid the racial tensions of the deep South. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “The Winslow Boy,” a Terence Rattigan play now being revived by the Roundabout Theater Company, a father wages a long campaign to clear his son’s name, regardless of the impact on t…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Mildred Fierce,” a musical spoof of the 1945 movie “Mildred Pierce,” at Theater 80 St. Marks, features the drag star Varla Jean Merman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:45PMThomas Kilroy’s version of “The Seagull,” an adaptation of the 19th-century Chekhov play, stars Trudie Styler.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “A Night With Janis Joplin,” Mary Bridget Davies brings a positively uncanny vocal impersonation, interspersed with some quieter reflections, to Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA country is thrown into chaos when its leaders descend into conflict in Shakespeare’s “Julius Caesar.” Does this sound slightly familiar?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00PMThe jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater stars as Billie Holiday in the musical biography “Lady Day,” at the Little Shubert Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn the dark comedy “Bad Jews,” two cousins argue ferociously over who’s more worthy of a family heirloom.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Mildred Fierce,” making its New York premiere, is a loving musical parody of the movie that won Joan Crawford her Oscar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PMIn “The Velocity of Autumn” at Arena Stage in Washington, Estelle Parsons is a feisty old woman who becomes an urban terrorist to avoid being forced from her Brooklyn home. &n…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34PMThe Actors Company Theater is presenting “Natural Affection,” a play by William Inge that hasn’t had a major New York revival since its Broadway premiere, in 1963. &nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PM“Not What Happened,” by Ain Gordon, looks at how we interpret the past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:50PMIs it more effective to cloak Shakespearean text in contemporary imagery, or to hew to a more “classical” line?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMBryan Cranston is Lyndon B. Johnson in “All the Way,” a play set immediately after President Kennedy’s assassination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMEpisodes 4.5 and 5 of “Life and Times,” from Nature Theater of Oklahoma, continued over the weekend, in film and with a book modeled on early medieval illuminated manuscripts. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMMs. Stritch, who made a dramatic exit from her home at the Carlyle Hotel this spring, is settling into her new life in Birmingham, Mich., cosmos and all.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:23PMDirected and starring Robert Lepage, “The Blue Dragon,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, revisits characters first created in “The Dragons’ Trilogy.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PM“Women or Nothing” is a comedy about a lesbian couple who want to trick a man into helping them have a baby.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMBlack stars from two very different generations, Muhammad Ali and Stepin Fetchit, meet for advice and conflict in “Fetch Clay, Make Man.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA theater critic (and frequent fan) tries to sell a skeptic on this season’s full slate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMIn “All the Faces of the Moon,” Mike Daisey performs a different, highly digressive monologue each night through Oct. 3 at Joe’s Pub.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA Chicago publishing house faces hard times in an era of digital change in Regina Taylor’s bewildering new play, “stop.reset.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PM“The Hill Town Plays,” the cycle of five dramas by Lucy Thurber set in rural western Massachusetts, is filled with drinking, violence, misguided sex and other troubling activity. &n…
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