Thursday, March 15, 2012
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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Off Broadway’s major companies, regenerating for years, are now opening a spate of new theaters, raising questions of commercialism.
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Off-Broadway theater is thriving. Impressive new buildings and stages have more than replaced those that have disappeared. Even so, prosperity has its perils.
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In “An Iliad” at the New York Theater Workshop, the violence of the Trojan War is evoked through the words of a single actor.
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The Bridge Project — that ambitious British-American exercise in cross-pollination — is winding down its third and final season, but it’s not likely that its absence will leave a gapin…
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Office stress, office humiliation and a powerfully absent boss are the stuff of “Assistance,” at Playwrights Horizons.
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Charles Isherwood kicks off an online discussion series on the history and significance of Arthur Miller's 1949 drama "Death of a Salesman."
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F. Murray Abraham stars in the Classic Stage Company’s revival of Bertolt Brecht’s “Galileo,” about the conflict between champions of progress and the church in Renaissance Italy.
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“Shatner’s World: We Just Live In It...,” a one-man show at the Music Box Theater, includes William Shatner’s stories of his acting career.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Signature Theater Company’s revival of Athol Fugard’s “Blood Knot” is more intellectually stimulating than emotionally engaging.
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Tuesday, February 7, 2012
The latest play from Kate Fodor, “Rx,” a winning combination of light satire and romance, pokes gentle fun at our overprescribed culture.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “The Ugly One,” at Soho Rep, a man loses his sense of self when a miracle of plastic surgery turns him into a nouveau Apollo.
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Danai Gurira’s ambitious new play, “The Convert,” about the arrival of colonialism in 1895 southern Africa, is having its premiere at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, N.J.
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In the Roundabout Theater revival of John Osborne’s 1956 landmark play, “Look Back in Anger,” Matthew Rhys plays the British working-class antihero.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMThe tempest over "Clybourne Park" vividly illustrates how small the universe of the Broadway theater really is.
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In “Russian Transport,” a relative joins a Russian-American family in Sheepshead Bay, changing the dynamic and bringing corruption.
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“Gob Squad’s Kitchen (You’ve Never Had It So Good)” at the Public Theater is loosely inspired by Andy Warhol’s Factory.
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This new biography argues that Ben Jonson, Britain’s first literary celebrity, was as central as Shakespeare to the development of the British theater.
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The creators of “Untitled Feminist Show” were seeking to create a “world in which people could identify and be however they wanted regardless of their sex,” according to Young Jean L…
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In “Cattywampus,” Strindberg’s classic “Miss Julie” comes to contemporary Appalachia with all its sexual and psychological baggage in tow.
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“Mission Drift,” a musical Coil Festival entry from the TEAM, is a sprawling musical epic about five centuries of American expansion and destruction.
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“Outside People,” a smart but slight comedy of manners by Zayd Dohrn, follows a young American trying to make his way in business and the bedroom in the booming new China.
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Catherine Trieschmann’s play “How the World Began,” from the Women’s Project, has a topical hot-button theme: the conflicting ideologies of confirmed secularists and faithful believe…
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“Goodbar” takes the audience on a psychedelic tour of the main character’s psyche through rhythmic rock songs.
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