Wednesday, January 9, 2019
Visionary stylist or one-trick pony? With “Network” on Broadway and “All About Eve” on the horizon, the multimedia-mad stage director is ready for his close-up.
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Gracie Gardner’s “Cowboy,” which runs from six to 20 minutes, is part of a triple bill: “I just love having a single visual image onstage,” she said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMPeter Mills Weiss and his collaborator, Julia Mounsey, put the audience on edge with the simplest of theatrical tools.
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A musical must have a minimum of internal logic and some good tunes. “Christmas in Hell” comes up short on both counts.
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Our intrepid theatergoer ate her way through a spate of shows that make food part of the experience. Her stomach sometimes ended up fuller than her imagination.
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Ruben Studdard and Clay Aiken, who once competed on “American Idol,” banter, sing and try to upstage each other in this holiday revue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMAdjani’s turn as a flamboyant con artist sends up her own aloof image in this fun and sophisticated comic caper from Romain Gavras.
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The playwright Mike Gorman tries to equate Melville’s “Moby-Dick” with the opioid crisis. The ambition is there, but the play falls short.
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Scott Aiello’s play about an Italian-American family dealing with a disabled daughter offers no-nonsense American realism.
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Idris Goodwin’s energetic but overstuffed play explores race, gender, police brutality and the quest for fame.
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Radio City Music Hall successfully merges old-fashioned showmanship and state-of-the-art technology in this year’s Christmas pageant.
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How three Broadway actresses capture the essence of one superstar: Thank the costumes, “Burlesque” — and white teeth.
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Friday, November 2, 2018
Tuesday, October 16, 2018
William Jackson Harper’s polished debut as a playwright, set in 1964, pits patient negotiation against disruptive activism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMMr. Mandvi, who spent nearly 10 years as a correspondent on “The Daily Show,” brings back his solo comedy act. It returns with new resonance.
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Monday, October 1, 2018
Yasmina Reza’s tidy comedy has been produced in 45 countries and translated into 30 languages. How will it withstand a deconstruction by two experimental theater companies?
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“Smugness is lethal,” says the filmmaker Todd Solondz, who, with “Emma and Max,” brings his sharp eye for hypocrisy to the stage for the first time.
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The Bedlam show, stitched together from parts borrowed from Chekhov and Shakespeare, should perhaps be credited to Chekspeare.
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Rob Roth’s new multimedia show uses video to try to capture the relationship between an obsessive fan and the actress who’s the object of his fantasies.
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A theater festival presented works he directed, stage adaptations of his films, and creations he influenced. Even a “Seventh Seal” for kids.
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They are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.
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Monday, August 20, 2018
Friday, August 10, 2018
Naming a show can be tricky. Some recent titles are obscure, others extremely long. And then there’s the weird punctuation. What’s going on?
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Scenes from an annual “vent” gathering in Kentucky, where puppets rule and their masters crave respect for an unappreciated art form.
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Renée Taylor’s solo show, based on her memoir, is about more than food and deprivation, and it’s loaded with one-liners.
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In this revival of Wallace Shawn’s 1979 play, a couple’s loathing creates a weird frisson of erotic challenge.
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With “Head Over Heels” in previews, we looked at how five Go-Go’s songs evolved into musical-theater numbers.
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