Thursday, May 10, 2012
This sorry Broadway musical season mainly offered choices of the vulgar, the derivative or the insipid. Thank goodness there at least a few memorable individual performances.
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Too much artificial sweetener has been stirred into “Fat Camp,” a new musical at the American Theater of Actors about teenagers singing their way to slimmer waistlines.
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Frank Galati’s adaptation of “The March,” E. L. Doctorow’s novel about Sherman’s march to the sea, never evolves beyond a series of vignettes.
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Jonathan Pryce plays a tramp aided and tormented by two brothers in a revival of Harold Pinter’s classic 1960 play “The Caretaker” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
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Nathan Lane and Brian Dennehy star in Robert Falls’s sterling new production of Eugene O’Neill’s tough, loquacious, magnificent play at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.
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Sunday, April 29, 2012
A modern-dress production of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at the Classic Stage Company, with Taylor Mac as Puck, is a feast of arresting imagery.
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“Don’t Dress for Dinner,” a revival of a sex farce by Marc Camoletti, has the stale flavor of an old TV dinner defrosted and microwaved.
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A Hollywood hit about post-mortem romance comes to Broadway in “Ghost the Musical,” at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
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“Three Sisters,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, features Chekhov’s unhappy characters in all their contradictions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:02PMThe tortured souls in “Strange Interlude,” Eugene O’Neill’s epic drama from 1928, now onstage at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, provoke merriment in the audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00AMAs evidenced by more than 600 responses on the Web site of The New York Times, “Death of a Salesman” remains a deeply affecting play.
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“Mr. Broadway” is a posthumously published memoir by Gerald Schoenfeld, one of the engines of the Shubert Organization for decades.
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The Labyrinth Theater Company’s production of Brett C. Leonard’s kitchen-sink drama, “Ninth and Joanie,” is at the Bank Street Theater.
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In “You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents’ Divorce,” four performers portray their own parents in a collage of reminiscences about their marriages, all past history.
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The most prominent N.B.A. rivalry of the 1980s provides the basis for the new play “Magic/Bird,” on Broadway at the Longacre Theater.
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The celebrity chef Rick Bayless has a role in “Cascabel,” a Lookingglass Theater production in Chicago that concerns food and romance.
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Calixto Bieito’s adaptation of “Camino Real” at the Goodman Theater in Chicago finds an even more baffling story inside an already perplexing play.
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Monday, April 2, 2012
Amy Herzog’s play “4000 Miles” is the rare theatrical production that achieves perfection on its own terms.
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A starry but sluggish Broadway revival, “Gore Vidal’s The Best Man” stars John Larroquette, James Earl Jones, Eric McCormack and Angela Lansbury.
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The City Center Encores! production of “Pipe Dream” firmly proves that even second-tier Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals have their undisputable charms.
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The collaborators on “[title of show]” return with “Now. Hear. This.,” an endearing musical that contemplates the fates of the dinosaurs, the cosmos and the cast.
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The Red Scare looms as men await divorces in 1950s Nevada in “Regrets,” a new play by the British writer Matt Charman at City Center Stage 1.
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Performers at the Chocolate Factory, in a sea of tennis balls, animate David Foster Wallace’s brilliant, funny, self-conscious writer’s voice.
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The Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s “Jesus Christ Superstar” employs modern dress and an arena-rock atmosphere.
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In Dan LeFranc’s play “The Big Meal” actors take turns portraying the members of a growing family across decades of life.
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Nonfiction should mean facts and nothing but the facts, argues the theater critic Charles Isherwood, in support of the retraction by “This American Life” of a program about Mike Daisey�…
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You can practically inhale the aroma of the gladioluses flooding the bedroom where the Red Bull Theater’s production of Jean Genet’s psychodrama “The Maids” is set.
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