Tuesday, November 1, 2011
In “Milk Like Sugar,” three teenagers concoct a triple pregnancy plan to get baby shower loot like Coach diaper bags and little pink Jordans.
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“The Atmosphere of Memory,” by David Bar Katz, is about a writer’s memory play and the backstage drama that ensues when his mother steps in to play the lead role.
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“Asuncion,” a new play written by and starring Jesse Eisenberg, is about the delicate mysteries of male friendship.
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Ivo van Hove brings his stage adaptation of this Ingmar Bergman movie to the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave Festival.
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You might expect that someone who spends his time watching, writing about, living and breathing theater 52 weeks a year would prefer to turn to other subjects when it comes to the pastime of…
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“Sons of the Prophet,” a new comedy-drama by Stephen Karam at the Laura Pels Theater, explores how those suffering misfortune continue to bear up under the burden of pain.
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Mike Daisey delves into the lives of the workers in China, and the grim conditions there, as he raises questions about our support of products made in such conditions.
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In “We Live Here,” by Zoe Kazan, a past tragedy haunts a wedding and a family when the bride’s sister brings a date.
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Tuesday, October 4, 2011
For “Motherhood Out Loud,” Beth Henley, Lisa Loomer and Theresa Rebeck write about the pains and pleasures of child-rearing.
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Adam Rapp’s new play is a tediously outlandish dark comedy about the beastliness of the rich in our tarnished gilded age.
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The Signature Theater offers the world premieres of two mystery musicals, “The Boy Detective Fails” and “The Hollow.”
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Tuesday, September 27, 2011
California dreams wither under a blazing sun in “Lemon Sky,” a 1970 drama by Lanford Wilson that has been affectionately revived by the Keen Company.
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Tuesday, September 13, 2011
“Completeness” is a talky new play by Itamar Moses about brainy grad students falling in and out of love.
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The New York Neo Futurists strip away the exchanges of words in Eugene O’Neill’s early plays and instead focus on acting out the sometimes extensive stage directions.
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Brian Dennehy is appearing in Shakespeare’s “Twelfth Night” and Harold Pinter’s “Homecoming” at this summer’s Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
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Revivals of “Camelot” and “Jesus Christ Superstar” at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival highlight the different styles of the two musicals.
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In some senses the Royal Shakespeare Company's season at the Park Avenue Armory was a victim of its own success.
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Watching high-level restaurant chefs and their assistants perform kitchen choreography is a gratifying form of dinner theater, says the theater critic Charles Isherwood.
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In “Olive and the Bitter Herbs,” Charles Busch’s new comedy, a longtime resident in a New York apartment building who lives to criticize her neighbors becomes fascinated by the arrival…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30PM“The Talls,” Anna Kerrigan’s coming-of-age comedy set in 1970, is a portrait of a functional family in a turbulent era.
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“Julius Caesar” gets a turbulent staging in this Royal Shakespeare production at the Park Avenue Armory, part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
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Sean O’Casey’s rarely performed “Silver Tassie,” part of the Lincoln Center Festival, mixes humor and the horror of war.
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In “The Patsy” David Greenspan dervishes through three acts and three times as many roles, refracting a homespun comedy of young love through his own inimitable stage persona.
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Lily Rabe and Josh Hamilton play a contemporary Nora and Torvald Helmer in the Williamstown Theater Festival production of “A Doll’s House.”
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