Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
The comedy “Bad Jews” stars Tracee Chimo as a young woman who is beaten to the punch regarding a family heirloom.
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The Tony-winning Jefferson Mays plays multiple members of a family, all doomed to die, in the premiere of the musical comedy “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder” at Hartford Stage.
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“House/Divided” splices together vignettes of the fictional suffering of the Joad family from John Steinbeck’s “Grapes of Wrath” with a panoramic view of current economic troubles.
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In “House for Sale,” at the Duke at 42nd Street, the Transport Group adapts a Jonathan Franzen essay about the death of his mother for the stage.
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In “Wild With Happy,” a new play written by and starring Colman Domingo, a down-in-the-dumps 40-year-old heads to the Magic Kingdom carrying his mother’s ashes in an urn.
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In “Disgraced,” by Ayad Akhtar, Aasif Mandvi plays a Pakistani-American lawyer who thinks he’s left his cultural roots behind, until he hosts a dinner party that goes awry.
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The plot of “Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them” involves a plan to blow up the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
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In “Don’t Go Gentle,” complications arise when a retired judge tries to atone for the past by helping a woman and her teenage son.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe shattering revival of Edward Albee’s “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” is the first necessary ticket of the fall Broadway season.
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Does Paul Rudd's screen reputation for easygoing comedy keep stage audiences from exploring the dark shades of his role in "Grace"?
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The comedian Lewis Black, known for his angry-man stand-up, modulates the rage in this 90-minute show, transforming from sober glowering to jabbering-like-a-lunatic only to punctuate a key p…
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In “Him,” by Daisy Foote and starring Hallie Foote, three middle-aged siblings brood on their dwindling options.
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The Théâtre de la Ville of Paris is presenting Eugène Ionesco’s “Rhinoceros” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Saturday.
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“Ten Chimneys” is a comedy-drama by Jeffrey Hatcher about Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at home in their Wisconsin retreat.
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Michael Benz is a youthful, high-spirited Hamlet in a visiting production from Shakespeare’s Globe of London.
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Legacies and echoes of the Rwandan slaughter of the 1990s are seen and heard in “Children of Killers,” a play by Katori Hall.
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Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas star in a high-intensity, high-volume production of Ibsen’s “Enemy of the People,” on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMWhat is it like to perform under the direction of Robert Wilson? An actor shares the experience of "Einstein on the Beach" with Charles Isherwood.
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In “Red Dog Howls,” a New York man discovers a devastating family secret after he finds a box of letters that lead to a grandmother he had never known.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
Ethan Lipton’s comedy compares the bonds humans share with their pets with the relationships they have with one another.
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In Lisa D’Amour’s play “Detroit,” a Pulitzer Prize finalist at Playwrights Horizons, a couple who fear they are sliding out of their economic class meet a couple who have other probl…
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An original musical about Poe’s last days brings to light the man, with the clichés scrubbed away, and his work.
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The movie versions of "Bachelorette" and "Rock of Ages" are a reminder of how hard it is to translate stage comedies and musicals to the screen.
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Two caregivers debate how to handle their dead charge in “Fly Me to the Moon,” a Marie Jones work that’s part of the 1st Irish festival at 59E59 Theaters.
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“The Train Driver,” written and directed by Athol Fugard, tells how a death on the tracks has left the train operator emotionally scarred.
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The advice seekers tend to swarm as the fall season approaches, and this year a critic has hit upon an easy answer: “See whatever’s onstage at Playwrights Horizons.”
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“The Matchmaker,” Thornton Wilder’s 1954 farce, has been given a rare and loving revival at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival this year.
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Two solo shows at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival —“A Word or Two” and “Hirsch”— illuminate the deeply personal nature of theater artists’ relation to their work.
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