Humor is found in the grim setting of a not-so-distant time in Laurel Haines’s “Future Anxiety,” now at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:11PMIn the historical drama “Triangle,” brief eyewitness accounts of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire are interspersed with a love story and Tin Pan Alley tunes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PMA new musical brings a Hollywood choreographer back to Broadway The intertwined tango-ing limbs of Brangelina in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The alternately jaw-dropping (in an awful way) and jaw-dr…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:37PMThe playwright Sharr White has embraced the practical way in which he lives his life in his creative endeavors, and the approach has helped make his play “The Other Place” his first majo…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMHow actors navigate big ideas in the Broadway revival of Stoppard’s play Early in Arcadia, Tom Stoppard’s beguiling mashup of academic one-upsmanship, fractals, Lord Byron, landscape…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThe actor becomes a director for John Leguizamo’s new Broadway show Summer of Sam. The Ice Age films. Super Mario Brothers. For better or for worse, these were all major touchstones in Jo…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:15PMWith the Wooster Group’s latest production, Scott Shepherd extends his downtown legacy Upon his first exposure to Gatz, Elevator Repair Service’s six-hour, word-for-word staging of F…
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SOURCE: TDF at 01:39PMJudith Malina, legendary co-founder of the Living Theater, tells the biblical story of the rebellious Korach as a prototype for anarchists through the ages.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMThe origins of “Three Pianos,” a rowdy mash note to Schubert at New York Theater Workshop, go back either 2 or 185 years.
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