The Mobile Shakespeare Unit’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” gives life to a much-told tale and to its audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PM“Ballerina Swan” is a stage adaptation of Allegra Kent’s children’s book about a swan who wants to dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:23PMZimmermann & de Perrot’s “Hans was Heiri” is physical theater in a set that moves, too.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:58PMTwo actors recreate the final scene of a film 23 times in “Eternal,” a film by Daniel Fish.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:10PMPaul Cameron Hardy’s “feeling” examines a woman in free fall after a relationship who strikes up a conversation with Jeffrey Dahmer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:29PM“Shakespeare’s Sister,” performed by an accomplished quintet of women, is having its New York premiere at La MaMa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:52PM“A Man’s World,” a 1910 drama by Rachel Crothers is about a novelist and single mother in New York who contends with gossip and stereotypes even within her bohemian circle. …
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:23PM“Sacred Elephant,” at La MaMa, elevates the creature and despairs over its fate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMThe director Godfrey L. Simmons Jr., has imposed a provocative twist on Eugene O’Neill’s play “All God’s Chillun Got Wings.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:47PMA young woman’s outrage animates an updated Japanese parable of transformation in “Dojoji: The Man Inside the Bell” at the Clurman Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:29PMMando Alvarado’s new drama, “Basilica,” is bounded by home, church and bar in San Juan, Tex.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Hotel Colors,” Eliza Bent’s debut play about a day in the life of a group of bedraggled travelers in Italy, is at the Bushwick Starr.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PMA small group of men in contemporary Havana try to game the system, and one another, in Eduardo Machado’s “Mariquitas,” at Theater for the New City.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07PMThe audience members are all front-row, and many have a role in “Everyone Was Chanting Your Name.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:46PMRichard Nelson’s new play, “Nikolai and the Others,” dramatizes the artists behind the Balanchine-Stravinsky ballet classic “Orpheus.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:15PMThe Epic Theater Ensemble makes several adjustments to “Richard III,” giving it a contemporary setting and a new title: “Born With Teeth.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMIn the first event in a multipart performance installation, Nick Vaughan and Jake Margolin explore wedded life in the suburbs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:41PMJoseph Keckler’s new work, “I Am an Opera,” mixes song, text and video.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PMThe National Asian-American Theater Company’s “Dream Play” adapts the Strindberg drama about the daughter of a goddess who sets out to understand what makes human beings tick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:19PM“Happy Birthday,” written by Anita Loos as a vehicle for Helen Hayes, has been revived at the Beckett Theater.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:53PM“Jackie,” starring Tina Benko, is the writer Elfriede Jelinek’s theatrical take on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PMEverybody is on the make in “The Mnemonist of Dutchess County,” by Josh Koenigsberg, in which a synesthete with perfect memory is also out to get the girl.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:51PM“From White Plains” is a drama about homophobic bullying, vengeance, and perhaps taking it all too far.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Grimly Handsome,” by Julia Jarcho, costumes switch, sets move, and the action snaps into another theatrical dimension.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn Kristen Kosmas’s new play, the actor Christopher Walken (who appears in name only) meets with an unfortunate accident involving a ladder, setting off a chain of events.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:07PMTwo Icelandic troupes bring the morality tale “Faust: A Love Story” to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMThe four actors in the new Spanish-language play based on Gabriel García Márquez’s “Love in the Time of Cholera” portray characters over many decades, making them symbols.
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