Monday, November 20, 2017
Streaming services have more stage offerings than ever — from great actors in early roles to recent Broadway musicals, captured live. Plus “Hamlet” in Lithuanian.
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Life and death, joy and poverty coexist in Emma Dante’s wondrous show about a family in Palermo. And it only costs $20 to see it.
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Monday, November 6, 2017
The latest ambitious effort by the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater is both highly detailed and hard to follow.
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While the jukebox musical has a cartoonish plot, songs like “Friend of the Devil” and “Box of Rain” work smartly on stage.
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In a Keen Company revival of Steven Dietz’s play, the comic actors Arnie Burton and Matt McGrath trade quips to keep the fear at bay.
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Thursday, September 21, 2017
In a visit to BAM, the stage director Olivier Py introduces his drag alter-ego and talks about plans for the Avignon Festival he runs.
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Monica Bill Barnes and Anna Bass explore friendship, competition and endurance in a show that mixes physical exertion and mischievous humor.
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Thursday, September 7, 2017
Ms. Lenk, who will reprise her role in “The Band’s Visit” on Broadway, has mastered the art of delivering equal emotional weight in song or in silence.
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A younger lover threatens a marriage in S. Asher Gelman’s new play. The twist: Both husbands are in on the affair.
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In this play, Austin Pendleton portrays a playwright who alternates between taking his students to task and spinning hilarious self-serving tales.
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Friday, July 21, 2017
Sunday, July 16, 2017
Friday, July 14, 2017
The Classical Theater of Harlem’s staging of the Alexandre Dumas novel emphasizes the comic action — and turns D’Artagnan into Mademoiselle D’Artagnan.
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In just under 10 years, Cole Escola, who is 30 but looks much younger, has become a ubiquitous presence on the downtown alt-cabaret circuit.
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Why aren’t there more American productions of Canadian plays? Judging from a Toronto theater company’s offerings, the quality of the work isn’t the obstacle.
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This ragged but high-spirited musical adaptation of Henry Fielding’s “Tom Jones” stars Evan Ruggiero, who lost most of his right leg to cancer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMA strangely entrancing new work explores a mysterious audio recording, and recreates a moment in the life of a 1950s Long Island family.
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En Garde Arts’ new production is an immersive work about immigration and making the best of difficult situations. Like those acoustics.
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Zakiyyah Alexander’s ambitious play leaves the viewer wanting more, but several other works register as contrived or wan.
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Cynthia Hopkins’s new show explores how she found the strength to rebuild her life after the home and studio she shared with her husband went up in flames.
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Monday, June 12, 2017
This Theater Breaking Through Barriers revival of Charles Ludlam’s 1986 comedy is never quite nutty enough.
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Amina Henry’s new play at Jack is about a greedy but not particularly bright entrepreneur and four determined dancers who compete in Pittsburgh.
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Jon Brittain’s play explores the fallout when Fiona announces to her girlfriend that she wants to transition and be called Adrian.
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Mr. Urie, the frontman of the band Panic! at the Disco, is taking over the role of Charlie Price on Broadway.
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In this new play, devised by the ensemble Piehole, we spend time with a group of friends who relive past adventures.
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