Toshiki 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30AMIt’s hard to believe that Kenneth Branagh is only now making his acting debut on a New York stage, in “Macbeth” at the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:32AMThe scantily clad Skivvies have built a following with musical mashups blending obscenity and innocence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:53PMNicky Silver is back with a new play about a celebrated actress, played by Linda Lavin, having a whole lot of trouble with the pressure of playing Medea.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36AMVinny DePonto’s solo play “Charlatan” features sleight of hand card tricks, mind-reading and sideshow stunts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMThe National Theater of China is performing a Mandarin-language “Richard III” at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PM“Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” with Neil Patrick Harris, is one of the most anticipated revivals of the season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMIdina Menzel’s new Broadway show, “If/Then,” is an ambitious effort by the musical team behind the Tony-winning “Next to Normal.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMThe comedy troupe Upright Citizens Brigade has a new manual for improvisation that adds further discipline to the Second City lessons on the form.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMJohn van Druten, a mid-20th-century playwright of romantic comedies, is enjoying a burst of interest Off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PM“Bob Marley’s Three Little Birds,” at the New Victory Theater, blends Marley’s music with a narrative about a boy who prefers to stay home and watch TV.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:21PMDavid Henry Hwang’s new play, “Kung Fu,” uses martial arts, Chinese opera and dance to tell the story of Bruce Lee’s life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:37PM“Outside Mullingar” is the 10th John Patrick Shanley play to be produced by the Manhattan Theater Club.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:26AMThere’s plenty of Shakespeare on stages from Broadway to community theater, and that’s not always a good thing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:17PMThe solo performer Daniel Kitson doesn’t say a word, at least not live, in his new show “Analog.Ue,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMFiona Shaw stars in a new staged reading of Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:19PMBilly Crystal returns to Broadway with lots of familiar material in a revival of “700 Sundays,” his one-man show about growing up on Long Island.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMTerrence McNally’s new play, “And Away We Go,” is a time-traveling backstage drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:14AMThe 2006 indie hit “Little Miss Sunshine” seems like a nice fit for the composer and lyricist William Finn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:16PM“Arguendo,” a staged re-creation of a 1991 case about the right of strip clubs to feature performers who are totally nude, is being mounted at the Public Theater by the Elevator Repair S…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMNew York’s best known white-collar criminal explores the underworld in “A User’s Guide To Hell Featuring Bernard Madoff,” by Lee Blessing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:37PM“Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play,” by Anne Washburn, tackles global disaster, adaptation and the peculiar power of stories passed down over generations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMThe year on Broadway was light on comedy, with a few notable exceptions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PMIn “Unconstitutional,” his stand-up show at the Barrow Street Theater, Colin Quinn digs deep into the historical weeds while keeping the audience in tow with jokes and barroom metaphors.…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Aquila Theater’s “Herakles” uses video clips of interviews with combat veterans in place of a classical chorus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:27PMThe puppet drama “Saga,” about how Iceland’s economic crisis affected a family, appears to push puppetry into new mature territory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:40PM“The (*) Inn” is a century-old tempestuous Yiddish drama that the adventurous Target Margin Theater has revived at the Abrons Arts Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:50PMNick Jones’s play “Trevor” was inspired by the story of a Connecticut woman assaulted by a pet chimpanzee.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMUpright Citizens Brigade Theater has become a major player in the comedy world partly by not paying some performers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMFour actors play all the roles in this Bedlam production of “Hamlet,” which hews true to Shakespeare’s verse even while cracking wise at Access Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:26PMBenedict Nightingale’s “Great Moments in the Theatre” is more a theater lover’s journal than a history lesson, but it puts an engaging spin on the chronology of the Western stage.
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