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In Dybbuk at Theater for the New City, the English playwright Julia Pascal turns a folk tale—about a dislocated soul that inhabits a living person—into an existential meditation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Starry Messenger,” a one-act play by Ira Hauptman, revolves around Galileo’s trial in 1633 and the clash between science and religion.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“The Great Divide,” an obscure 1906 melodrama written by William Vaughn Moody, provides clichéd characters who, at their best, are intriguing reflections of a changing nat…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]New York Times writers review five shows that made their debuts in the early days of this year’s New York International Fringe Festival.
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"Olympics Ãœber Alles" hopscotches among decades as it recounts how Marty Glickman and another Jewish runner were pulled from an American relay team in the Berlin Games.
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In "Clinton: The Musical," a former president is so conflicted that he is portrayed by two actors and the humor is so low that Kenneth Starr wears leather and fishnet.
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Sunday, June 8, 2014
A working-class woman unjustly sent to prison plots revenge against well-heeled members of society in "Within the Law," a Progressive Era melodrama revived at the Metropolitan Playhouse.
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In this solo show at Urban Stages, Jim Brochu portrays Zero Mostel and other Broadway actors who were recognizable if not household names.
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Brian Watkins's play, "My Daughter Keeps Our Hammer," tells the story of two sisters in their 20s, living with their ailing mother on the high plains, and desperate for a way out. …
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In "Philosophy for Gangsters," a college graduate being groomed to lead the family business puts the concept of determinism squarely in her cross hairs.
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In "The Preacher and the Shrink," at the Beckett Theater, a young woman moves back home and soon accuses a young minister in her father's church of molesting her.
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"Bronx Bombers" centers largely on the volatile relationships of the Yankees team of 1977, while summoning ghosts of other eras of the team's history.
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In Alexander Harrington's new drama, "The Great Society," the complex and conflicted Lyndon B. Johnson comes across as the biggest Vietnam-era pacifist in the White House. &…
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Friday, April 26, 2013
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The play "Bodega Bay," about a mousy Staten Islander's search for her mother, is intended to pay theatrical homage to Hitchcock, but its true horror is not intentional.
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Allan Sherman's 1969 musical "The Fig Leaves Are Falling" is given a new treatment by UnsungMusicalsCo. at the Connelly Theater in the East Village.
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"The Last Seder," a comic drama by Jennifer Maisel, depicts a family assembling at a holiday and wrestling with a range of troubles across two generations.
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Thursday, September 20, 2012
"Hard Times: An American Musical" at the Cell Theater, part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival, looks at the life and works of the songwriter Stephen Foster.
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Wednesday, August 8, 2012
A musical by Sam Davis and Sean Hartley is mixed in with one-acts by Paul Rudnick, Neil LaBute and James McLure in a six-script festival at 59E59 Theaters.
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