“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…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Signature Theater has unearthed a previously unseen Foote play, “The Old Friends.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28AMA new play from the Amoralists explores the Southern gothic world of graveyards, the dead, their souls and sex.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMFor the critic Charles Isherwood, “The Poseidon Adventure” touched off his artistic judgment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PM“Soul Doctor,” a musical starring Eric Anderson about the life of Shlomo Carlebach, the folk-singing rabbi, has opened at Circle in the Square.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Chicago theater scene inspires a deep-rooted loyalty, and this summer, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer, who went on to TV and film, have returned.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:44PMNew plays these days tend to come in slimmed-down sizes. But not the latest work from the Amoralists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMOpposites attract in the musical comedy “First Date,” starring Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez, at the Longacre Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe director Mary Zimmerman takes an understated approach in her retelling of “The Jungle Book,” adapted from the Disney movie (and Kipling), at the Goodman Theater. &nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:35PMThis year’s Lincoln Center Festival provided a few impressive shows and many reasons for theatergoers to complain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30AM“Murder for Two,” a new two-performer musical produced by Second Stage Theater’s Uptown series, uses its actor-doubling to daffy effects.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA philosophy grad student is entangled in the silly world of competitive reality television in “Nobody Loves You,” a musical at Second Stage Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMShakespeare in the Park productions offer primal joys, even for naturephobes like this critic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:53PMJohn Malkovich, who starred in a film version of “Les Liaisons Dangereuses,” has directed a French-language production of the English-language play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07PM“The Cradle Will Rock,” Marc Blitzstein’s 1937 musical, a proud artifact of theater as agitprop, gets a robust if spare revival at City Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:52PMThe Complicite production of “Shun-kin” uses puppetry, traditional performance, music and design to convey coolly a steamy Japanese tale at the Lincoln Center Festival. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Monkey: Journey to the West” turns an Asian fable of a furry enlightenment-seeker into a spectacle combining animation, martial arts and acrobatics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMStudents struggling with their identity and with one another are united by spirituals in “Choir Boy,” by Tarell Alvin McCraney.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durkin,” a man tries to re-enter his family’s life after serving time for defrauding investors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn the comedy “The Explorers Club,” discussions include whether to let a woman join a men’s sanctum in 1879 London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Shakespeare in the Park production of “The Comedy of Errors,” directed by Daniel Sullivan, moves this mistaken-identity farce to a locale straight out of “Guys and Dolls.” &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn Daniel Pearle’s new drama, “A Kid Like Jake,” two parents fret over getting their preschooler into private school and whether his fascination with princesses means that he may be ga…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMFather and daughter, art and athletics, with Charles Ives as a fantastical referee in Jessica Dickey’s “Charles Ives Take Me Home,” at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMJohn Guare has written, and appears in, “3 Kinds of Exile,” a triptych of plays that includes one about the life of the Polish actress Elzbieta Czyzewska.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMSusan Sontag, public intellectual, is portrayed as a teenager and a woman in “Sontag: Reborn,” a one-woman show with video at New York Theater Workshop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “The Tutors,” written by Erica Lipez and directed by Thomas Kail, founders of a Web site that isn’t quite Facebook struggle to get by.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMRod McLachlan’s new play, “Good Television,” goes behind the scenes with the creators and subjects of a reality show about addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMJenny Schwartz’s “Somewhere Fun,” directed by Anne Kauffman, is a journey, on a sea of words, to the edge of the surreal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMChristopher Lloyd stars in “The Caucasian Chalk Circle,” a fablelike play by Bertolt Brecht about a woman who impulsively adopts a baby abandoned by its mother.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Golden Dragon,” a comedy written by Roland Schimmelpfennig, is partly set in the kitchen of an Asian restaurant.
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