Tuesday, January 10, 2012
The goods exchanged are unclear in a sexually charged encounter between a dealer and a client in Radoslaw Rychcik's adaptation of a French play, but the high stakes are not.
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Thursday, December 22, 2011
Critics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
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Reid Farrington's version of "A Christmas Carol" is a technically complicated mash-up in which George C. Scott, Bill Murray and Donald Duck star along with live actors who double as stagehan…
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Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Friday, November 18, 2011
It's an easy stroll of a performance for John Malkovich, who plays Jack Unterweger, a real-life Austrian serial killer, in Michael Sturminger's staging of "The Infernal Comedy."
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Sunday, November 6, 2011
Thursday, November 3, 2011
In a brief run at the White Light Festival, "Desdemona," directed by Peter Sellars with a script by Toni Morrison, is a reimagining of the title character that comes off as an elegant lectur…
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Wednesday, October 12, 2011
Mia Yoo, the new artistic director of La MaMa, inherited the post from its colorful founder and longtime leader, Ellen Stewart, who died in January.
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"The Speaker's Progress," an elegantly staged satire about the Arab world from the Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman al-Bassam, is at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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"The Little Prince," the 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, comes to the stage in the Bristol Riverside Theater production at the New Victory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PM[SHARE]In Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's "Lidless," Alice, a former military interrogator at Guantánamo Bay, is forced to confront her time there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 27, 2011
Pearl Theater's production of Eugène Ionesco's "Bald Soprano" treats the short play as an old-fashioned farce about two couples lost in their own heads.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2011
The conceit behind "Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant: The Mothership Landing" is that a band of fictional performers who specialize in cutting-edge art and pretentiousness are serving up dinne…
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A friend of Mike McAlary, a tough-guy columnist who died young, memorializes him in a play, "The Wood," at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
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The popular idea that tough criticism emerges from malice or cruelty is almost always wrong. So why do critics write brutal pans? And can they go too far?
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Wednesday, August 10, 2011
"HotelMotel," featuring plays by Derek Ahonen and Adam Rapp, is set in a room at the Gershwin Hotel and produced by the downtown troupe the Amoralists.
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"The Spoon River Project," adapted by Tom Andolora from "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters, is performed in Green-Wood Cemetery.
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"Our Lot," by W. David Hancock and Kristin Newbom, centers on the stepchildren of a man who collected objects he said belonged to famous people.
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Shaping Cirque du Soleil's new show, "Zarkana," which opens in New York this week, involves trying to balance the tension between a circus and a rock opera.
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With rare access to Cirque du Soleil's creative process, Jason Zinoman looks at the evolution of the theatrical company into an international brand, and he shows what goes on behind the scen…
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