
"Here at Home," a new play by 31 Down in Brooklyn, ponders a world of war and soulless chain stores.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PM[SHARE]A selection of theater artists share their memories of the playwright and director Arthur Laurents, who died on Thursday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PM[SHARE]The new documentary drama "Locker No. 4173b" is a smart if not altogether satisfying production by the New York Neo-Futurists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PM[SHARE]Two playwrights, Daniel Goldfarb and Jonathan Marc Sherman, talk about the experience of becoming fathers and the influence that has had on their work.
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SOURCE: Slate at 10:57AM[SHARE]In "The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy," Finegan Kruckemeyer's play at the Duke on 42nd Street, a Dickensian storyteller relates the adventures of a boy made of cheese.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PM[SHARE]"Epona's Labyrinth," at Here Arts Center, follows a husband on a Kafkaesque search for his wife.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:02PM[SHARE]The Keen Company revives "Benefactors," Michael Frayn's structured dissection of two couples and how their lives unravel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:25PM[SHARE]A Palestinian refugee family is torn by the Arab-Israeli conflict in Mona Mansour's "Urge for Going," at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PM[SHARE]Qui Nguyen's new play is an ambitious entertainment about modern identity wrapped inside an exploitation drama about what used to be called the "inscrutable Orient."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:28PM[SHARE]The Peccadillo Theater Company's production of the 1951 musical "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," at the Theater at St. Clements, is a low-budget affair that wants to be high-budget.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:21PM[SHARE]"The Method Gun" is a high-concept version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Stanley, Blanche, Stella and Mitch cut out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11PM[SHARE]"Invasion!", a translation of a Swedish-language play at Walkerspace, revels in wordplay.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Tina 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 06:09PM[SHARE]Theater 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 05:17PM[SHARE]Trista 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 04:27PM[SHARE]"What the Public Wants," Arnold Bennett's 1909 play about the newspaper business, has resonance for today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:38PM[SHARE]With 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 05:49PM[SHARE]The Pearl Theater's modest staging of Molière's "Misanthrope" believes in the material's comic power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:09PM[SHARE]The Public Theater's annual festival of adventurous new works stretches theatrical forms and the imagination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:53PM[SHARE]The English comedian Daniel Kitson explores questions about loss and love and the pursuit of meaning that are too complicated to answer completely.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:43PM[SHARE]Absent from the theatrical menu are original holiday dramas that are entertaining, accessible and even sentimental.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24PM[SHARE]Absent from the theatrical menu are original holiday dramas that are entertaining, accessible and even sentimental.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00PM[SHARE]"Mummenschanz," the granddaddy of wordless, whimsical nonsense spectacles, is back in New York for the first time since 2003, along with its beloved giant faceless puppets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PM[SHARE]Inspector Sands, a smartly off-kilter British company, is making an attention-getting introduction to New York with two shows in repertory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PM[SHARE]"My Last Play" by Ed Schmidt takes place in Mr. Schmidt's living room in Carroll Gardens.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:58PM[SHARE]"Let Them Eat Cake" dramatizes a debate among members of the left about the importance of fighting for marriage as opposed to other civil rights issues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PM[SHARE]As shows by troupes like the Civilians inch closer to journalism, questions are raised about their responsibility to journalistic standards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PM[SHARE]In "Lay of the Land," Tim Miller ruminates on gay politics, using various snapshots from his childhood and his travels.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:30PM[SHARE]A stage adaptation of Philip K. Dick's "Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?" unfolds at the 3LD Art @ Technology Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PM[SHARE]An impressive amount of melodrama, activity and funny voices is packed into "Being Sellers," a solo biographical play by Carl Caulfield about the actor Peter Sellers.
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