Absent from the theatrical menu are original holiday dramas that are entertaining, accessible and even sentimental.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Public Theater’s annual festival of adventurous new works stretches theatrical forms and the imagination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Pearl Theater’s modest staging of Molière’s “Misanthrope” believes in the material’s comic power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMWith each performance, the cast of “Baby Wants Candy” concoct a different musical comedy with a story idea supplied by a member of the audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“What the Public Wants,” Arnold Bennett’s 1909 play about the newspaper business, has resonance for today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMTrista Baldwin’s “American Sexy,” at the Flea Theater, shows how a group of young people can interact but not connect.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMSpider-Man is a wild, sexed-up, Greek mythologized train wreck. But it's Julie Taymor's train wreck, through and through.
SOURCE: Slate at 05:58PMTheater in the Dark, With Lights, a mini-festival in which three of his works are receiving short runs, provides an opportunity to judge whether Ashlin Halfnight has arrived.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMTina Satter’s “In the Pony Palace/Football” dissects high school football with gender-flipped casting that reveals the sport’s hidden dimensions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Invasion!”, a translation of a Swedish-language play at Walkerspace, revels in wordplay.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMFour plays at two New York festivals, Under the Radar and Coil, offer a range of themes, styles and even language.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMScott Zigler will direct “The Shawl” and “Prairie du Chien” Off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32AMElizabeth Reaser and Justin Bartha play spouses who follow the precepts of Christian Domestic Discipline.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:14AMLisa D’Amour’s huge, atmospheric party of a play features bartenders, hustlers, strippers and other denizens of the city.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:45PMThe Annoyance Theater, long a staple of the Chicago improv scene, has brought comedy theater to Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31AMCush Jumbo brings her solo show “Josephine and I” to New York, playing the American performer Josephine Baker.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PMAs Mr. David’s opening night for “Fish in the Dark” approaches, he bemoans the play’s enormous advance ticket sales as “a terrible thing.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMWhat distinguishes acts like Sebastian Maniscalco’s is a full-bodied commitment to the act-out: stand-up jargon describing a shift from narrating a joke to acting it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMLarry David’s new comedy, “Fish in the Dark,” has established itself as the blockbuster new play of the spring season even before it begins.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMJanuary is when a glut of downtown festivals descend on New York with strange, daring and often thrilling international shows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:28PM“Every Brilliant Thing” arrives in New York with lots of good reviews and a high concept that sounds a bit mawkish.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMThe New York Deaf Theater presents “The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde” with a cast that signs the dialogue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMYoung Jean Lee’s new play, “Straight White Men,” comes to the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:56PM“Father Comes Home From Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)" is a new drama by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:49PMTom Stoppard’s play “Indian Ink” is finally getting its Off Broadway premiere at the Roundabout Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:58PM“Dark Meat on a Funny Mind” recounts the highs and lows of Richard Pryor’s life as a comedian.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:45PMLike so many spectacularly successful comic playwrights from the first half of the 20th century, George Kelly (the uncle of Grace) is mostly forgotten.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07PMOf course, “Between Riverside and Crazy” is by Stephen Adly Guirgis, a playwright whose distinctive style extends to his titles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:50PMIf you’re looking for high-energy fun, head to Union Square, where the high-flying acrobats from “Fuerza Bruta: Wayra” will splash around in giant pools over your head.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:27AMToshiki Okada discusses his new play, “The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise,” and how he writes for an audience that does not share his language or culture.
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