Thursday, March 30, 2017
The 1950s plays "Picnic" and "Come Back, Little Sheba," in repertory revivals at the Gym at Judson, capture the playwright's gift for understatement.
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The SITI Company's opaque, mystifying play is built entirely from the composer's quotations, arranged into an exploration of the artistic process.
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Wednesday, March 15, 2017
The murdered Algerian remained anonymous in Albert Camus's "The Stranger," but this new play by Betty Shamieh reframes the point of view.
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Thursday, February 9, 2017
The siblings in James Lecesne's new play, directed by Tony Speciale, continue to disagree about some rather important aspects of their upbringing.
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Thursday, January 26, 2017
Presented by Pan Asian Repertory, this play by Damon Chua, set during World War II, is steeped in the traditions of film noir as well as several other genres.
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The British actress plays Prospero in an all-female "The Tempest," her latest gender-switched Shakespeare production, set in a penitentiary.
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Monday, December 19, 2016
The illustrator Edward Gorey proves a complex subject in this imagined memoir for the stage that focuses more on the man than his art.
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Jake Broder brings the decades-gone comedian back to slang-slinging life in "His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley," but without the pith helmet.
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In Stan Richardson's "Private Manning Goes to Washington," the activist hacker Aaron Swartz wants to put on a play inspired by the whistle-blower Manning.
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The anthology "In This Moment" is presented free of charge by Theater for One in a mobile booth in the Pershing Square Signature Center's lobby.
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Monday, November 21, 2016
In a new version of William Burke's play, at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, Elmo hates the Naked Cowboy, and the Cookie Monster has a box cutter.
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The 2016 "Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes" has put the Music Hall dance troupe's name in the title with good reason.
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Friday, November 4, 2016
Thursday, October 27, 2016
The German playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz's 1973 drama takes naturalism to its extreme, showing a quiet woman passing through her evening.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
An oddly endearing production at the Abrons Arts Center that traffics far more in scary bearded creatures than narrative intelligibility.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PM[SHARE]Ibsen's evergreen story still has much to offer in this 90-minute version by David Harrower, given a modern-dress production by the Pearl Theater.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Despite his international fame, Mr. Castellucci has never had his work seen in New York City until now, at the Crossing the Line Festival.
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In his latest show, at the Marquis Theater, the comedian sounds not so much angry as defeated during an election year in which fiction and reality intersect.
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Monday, September 5, 2016
Friday, August 19, 2016
