Theater notables who saw the 1962 production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” share their recollections, reservations and realizations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:29PMDirector Dexter Bullard talks about bringing the heightened reality of “Grace” to Broadway Jesus and his followers have enjoyed a fair amount of time on Broadway of late. Still, …
SOURCE: TDF at 12:22PMThe inspirations for Lisa D’Amour’s comedy “Detroit” The phrase “There goes the neighborhood” could be said by (and applied to) all four of the main chara…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:22AMJeff Whitty’s fresh book for the Broadway cheerleading musical Counting the direct-to-DVD sequels, there are five Bring It On movies, and Bring It On: The Musicalmimics exactly none of…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:22PMBradley Cooper will be the latest in a line of handsome actors playing the disfigured Elephant Man onstage when he opens in the role in Williamstown, Mass.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMIn “Triassic Parq the Musical,” an all-female group of dinosaurs is shocked when one of its T. rexes suddenly becomes male.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:56PMIntense collaboration produces a powerful show at Soho Rep Between acts of Annie Baker’s arresting adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a cast member quickly unplugs the onstage …
SOURCE: TDF at 10:53AM“DruidMurphy,” part of the Lincoln Center Festival, presents three plays by Tom Murphy, who inspired a generation of dark Irish playwrights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMThe New Haarlem Arts Theatre thinks big in uptown Manhattan “We’ve set ourselves an ambitious set of goals, and the growing pains have definitely set in.” The first half of…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:20PM“Closer Than Ever,” a 1989 musical revue, gets a revival directed by one of its creators.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:16PMThe Amoralists head uptown to present Derek Ahonen’s “The Bad and the Better,” a sprawling neo-noir tale of betrayals, dangerous dames and terrorist plots.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:57PMThe unusual collaboration behind the comedy “3C” It apparently takes three companies to take on Three’s Company. Nobody bats an eye at seeing as many as two dozen producers…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:13PMEliza Clark’s “Recall,” despite its teenage talk and familiarly drab environments, is set in a “Minority Report”-style future.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:58PMIn “Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play” the Civilians transform an episode of “The Simpsons” into something quite different at the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:19PM“Playing With Fire,” August Stindberg’s rarely performed comedy of manners, is transported to a wealthy African-American enclave in the 1920s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30PMHow J. David Brimmer stages comic fights in “Medieval Play” “Kenny has a lot of laughs in there, but we really want it to look like they’re going at it hammer and ton…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:10AMCentral Park’s Delacorte Theater has seen all of Shakespeare’s plays plus other classic works in five decades of free performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMIn “American Jornalero,” by Ed Cardona Jr., at the Intar Theater, day laborers hope for work but must brace for confrontation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:41PMThe Bedlam theater troupe, with a cast of four, is staging George Bernard Shaw’s “St. Joan” at the Access Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:10PMInside the actor’s Tony-nominated performance in “Clybourne Park” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their rol…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:52AMReading the script of 'Water by the Spoonful,'' the new Pulitzer Prize winner in drama, makes clear that one can appreciate a play on the page as well as on the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMHow sets and costumes survive the Broadway farce Whether it’s Venice in 1743 or the British seaside in 1963 or Broadway in 2012, you’ve got to have doors. Two of them. And not ju…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:43PMThe Acting Company presents a modern-dress “Julius Caesar” at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, with TV monitors, protest signs and crisp articulation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMMeta-theatrical shenanigans take center stage in “Broke House,” by Caden Manson/Big Art Group.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMIn “Being Shakespeare” at BAM, the actor Simon Callow testifies on behalf of the playwright.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:11PMThe playwright Willy Holtzman considers a past-her-prime violinist and her damaged Stradivarius in “The Morini Strad.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:19PMHow playwright Eric Simonson made theatre out of basketball stars In the space of eight years, Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. won a combined six NBA championships. Bir…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:52PMIn “Elephant Room,” the lovable losers and sometime magicians Dennis Diamond, Louie Magic and Daryl Hannah turn St. Ann’s Warehouse into their own den of cool.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMThe Pearl Theater Company’s sure-footed production of “A Moon for the Misbegotten,” a rustic comedy that slides into anguish, is at City Center Stage II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMThe actor tackles old-time politics in Broadway’s “The Best Man” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create the…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:15AM“Lucky Duck,” a reboot of “The Ugly Duckling” billed for 4-to-8-year-olds, features babes in the dark woods of show business.
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