Thursday, March 13, 2025
A beguiling and striking performance piece featuring a talking bear, old family photographs and Holocaust overtones; it’s vividly performed and presented.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 10:26PMSunday, March 2, 2025
James Joyce’s only play is a jaunty examination of free love among two Irish couples in 1912; a sparkling cast perform in this scintillating revival.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 12:15PMThursday, February 27, 2025
An aging, unsuccessful male rock singer is audited by the IRS, and a young woman crosses the U.S. border illegally, in these exceptional one-act plays.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 03:00PMAn amiable memory play about a young U.S. Peace Corps worker losing his innocence to an older, female State Department official amidst foreign intrigue.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 02:30PMTuesday, February 25, 2025
Christian Slater, Calista Flockhart and a mesmerizing sheep, appear in this rousing revival of Sam Shepard’s 1977 dysfunctional family saga.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 02:44PMThursday, February 20, 2025
A wild, neo futuristic performance piece satirizing the past and present U.S. political scene; the dynamic cast spouts swirling, comic dialogue.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 09:35AMWednesday, February 12, 2025
Charlie Chaplin’s relationship with his Japanese immigrant chauffeur is the spine of this engaging, historical fantasia that is charmingly performed.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:00PMThursday, February 6, 2025
F. Murray Abraham dazzles in Krapp’s Last Tape; a trio of magnetic actors also perform Not I and Play, in this entrancing triple bill by the Nobel laureate.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:58AMTuesday, February 4, 2025
Librettist Madeline Myers and lyricist Benjamin Velez received this joint award during a NYC ceremony co-hosted by Richard Maltby, Jr. and Maury Yeston.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 09:41AMMonday, January 27, 2025
Young Marlon Brando auditions for Tennessee Williams in this smart, enchanting and moving fantasia; it is impeccably written and grandly performed.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 02:13PMSaturday, January 11, 2025
Heroin addicts, sex workers and a jaded cop, people Richard Vetere’s searing and vividly presented underclass drama set in the seedy Brooklyn of 1971.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 11:00AMFriday, December 27, 2024
U.S. banker Jacob Schiff’s battle against Russian antisemitism is depicted in this theatrical fantasia, Mark Twain and other celebrities appear as well.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 08:26AMMonday, December 16, 2024
Bill Irwin and Jessica Hecht are featured in this topical satire; an elementary school committee grapples with vaccine policy during a mumps outbreak.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 03:15PMThursday, December 12, 2024
Zachary Quinto is among the name cast members in this confounding and unsatisfying Christmas Eve dysfunctional family drama which is smoothly presented.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:00PMA white, straight recent Harvard graduate goes up to an older, Black gay man’s Amsterdam hotel room in this fiercely performed psychological drama.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 03:03PMThursday, December 5, 2024
An adaptation of a horror novel, a majestic performance by Len Cariou and a powerful play in Spanish, were highlights of the New York stage this year.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 04:51AMMonday, November 25, 2024
Australian performer Sam Kissajukian’s hilarious and thoughtful solo show contains projections of his arresting artworks amidst his confessions.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 03:27PMWednesday, November 20, 2024
Marisa Tomei is incandescent as a veteran music company executive in this scorching David Mamet-style drama; a young new female hire upends a corporation.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 02:05PMMonday, November 18, 2024
Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowski and Debra Messing, appear in this twisty Manhattan comedy where party guests’ smart phones reveal dark secrets.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:13PMThursday, November 7, 2024
A farmhouse murder and a wacky blind date are the subjects of these one-act plays presented by a theater company devoted to artists over the age of 50.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 08:00AMThursday, October 24, 2024
Renowned Jewish public intellectual Hannah Arendt’s 1933 arrest in Berlin is suspensefully dramatized in this eloquent, well-played historical drama.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 10:12PMFive psychiatric patients’ group therapy sessions are threatened when a corporation acquires the hospital it’s held at in this searing topical drama.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 01:00PMSaturday, October 19, 2024
Tyler Fewin is outstanding as The Monster in this thrilling, new and taut adaptation of Mary Shelley’s classic novel; it is performed in Woodside, Queens.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 10:30AMThursday, October 17, 2024
Jesse James Keitel and Mark Nadler are captivating as they create a 1953 nightclub act for that transgender trailblazer in this nostalgic entertainment.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:00PMA dissident Russian author’s 1921 dystopian futuristic novel has been given a theatrically ravishing stage adaptation that is dynamically performed.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 10:14AMWednesday, October 16, 2024
Adam Driver’s charisma is showcased in this trite play about a country music and movie star’s angst; the thrill of seeing him perform live is it here.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:15PMTuesday, October 15, 2024
Francesca Faridany and Norbert Leo Butz are towering in this Stoppardian Moscow-set drama where Putin is reelected in 2004, solidifying his power.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:00PMWednesday, October 9, 2024
Anthony Edwards and Susannah Flood are entrancing as two lost souls at a small-town diner in this humane and artfully presented small-scale drama.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 06:02PMThursday, October 3, 2024
Robert Downey Jr. dazzles in his NY stage debut as a hard drinking novelist; Andrea Martin is his agent in this challenging play given an epic production.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 07:00AMTuesday, October 1, 2024
A revival of David Henry Hwang’s semi-autobiographical fantasia dealing with the “Miss Saigon” casting controversy and conflicts with his immigrant father.
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SOURCE: theaterscene.org at 05:30PMPissy Myles hosted this event at Red Eye celebrating NYC’s oldest and longest-producing LGBTQ+ theater company; founder Doric Wilson was commemorated.
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