Have you ever seen Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” set in the 1950s with a biracial star in a lesbian love triangle? In this new film adaptation, you will.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMNORDIC , NOIR, NEUROTIC In a hotel room, sea uneasy beyond and faint wind howling, dishevelled Adolf with his crutch listens to his smooth, confident new friend Gustaf. He show…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:23AMAWKWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER The curtain is a marvel to start with: its plasticky-floral cosiness taking you straight to a 1970s kitchenette and the heyday of Mrs W’s mission to gathe…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 08:04PMThe wild grandeur of a choreographer just starting out is a breath of fresh air. It’s no secret. Blue just picked up an Emmy and an MTV Video Music Award.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:13PM“Saturday Church” taps into music from several genres, as well as Sia, to tell the story of a teenager struggling with his sexuality and faith.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMThe wild grandeur of a choreographer just starting out is a breath of fresh air. It’s no secret. Blue just picked up an Emmy and a Video Music Award.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMEMPYREAN ENTERTAINMENT; CLUTCH IT TO YOUR FAINTING BOSOM NOW! It should be on prescription, so healing of life’s frustrations is this Charles Court Opera revival of Gilbert and S…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 07:02PMThe choreographer takes over the Park Avenue Armory with “Monkey Off My Back or the Cat’s Meow,” a spectacle that honors the power of being together.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMAt Little Island, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is starring, and singing, in Charles Ludlam’s “Galas,” a love letter to Callas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMAMBRIDGE OVER SLIGHTLY TROUBLED WATER Tim Stimpson is a long-serving modern writer on Radio 4’s The Archers, and loves it: so his play is about the dawning, 75 years ago, of thi…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 10:29AMAfter years of training (clowning, Butoh and more), the longtime friends take on Samuel Beckett’s towering drama on Broadway.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AMDolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM“The Brothers Size” at the Shed is speaking to a new generation of audiences. “Unfortunately, parts of the plays are still relevant,” McCraney said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMIn his first Off Broadway play, the artist and comedian behind “Fantasmas” and “Problemista” is bringing audiences into his off-kilter world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMPOETIC PASSIONS IN A TUDOR POLICE STATE Here’s a lively aquib from the RSC, a bravura 85 minute two-hander about Christopher Marlowe – dead at 29 in a Deptford tavern brawl – a…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMA MODERN CHEKHOVIAN PLAY, BEAUTIFUL The first thoughts that steuck me on leaving Andrew Keatley’s well-made, slightly old fashioned family drama were that a lesser playwright would h…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 04:39AMBACK TO THE LAND Birdsong, a grassy bank. At a rough rustic table sits a rough rustic: bearded, silent, rolling fags and contemplating a broken tractor part. Into this Thoma…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 02:52AMAndrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare • See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts prev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:18AMIn Salzburg, an anniversary of “The Sound of Music” looks grand through a child’s eyes, even if the locals are gazing elsewhere.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42AMThe choreographer Kim Brandt brings “Wayward,” an expansive new dance, to Rockaway (the beach and the town) as this part of Beach Sessions.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMThese are boom times for Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, work and life partners who make dances of slippery intensity. Their latest, “Seven Scenes,” comes to Little Island.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMThe shows that have gotten tongues wagging this year include stand-up gigs, character skits and a routine that ends with its performer covered in goo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AMJoey Fatone, Michelle Williams and other actors share some of the declarations of admiration they’ve received during their runs onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMA FAMILY BUSINESS AT SIXES AND 007s This little theatre has given us some strong meat lately – themes of Nazi crimes, Jewishness, Russianness – but this time it hosts the Barn theatre’…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 11:26AMA TRUE-CRIME RICARDIAN ROMCOM Here’s a wonderfully 1950s retro play, not just in style and simplicity but in the willowy vintage-Harrods outfits of Rachel Pickup as the willowy Marta H…
SOURCE: theatrecat.com at 06:26PM‘You realize you’re being upstaged by an animal that’s completely unpredictable’: As the Delacorte Theater reopens, actors and others recall their favorite memories.
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