Wednesday, June 15, 2016
Charna Halpern — who, with the Chicago improv pioneer Del Close, devised a seminal improv technique — is a crucial conduit to “Saturday Night Live.”
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Shakespeare’s comedy, stuffed with rather dated gender politics, will run at the Delacorte Theater with an all-female cast.
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Rory Scovel is an improvisational experimentalist with a jazzy rhythm, veering off on tangents and looking to transform, even sabotage, his own sets.
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Josie Long and Josh Gondelman are part of a new breed of performers who deliver their monologues without a drop of bile.
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Saturday, April 9, 2016
On the eve of the premiere of Showtime’s “Dice,” Mr. Clay reflects on playing a character in his stand-up comedy career and what audiences thought.
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Thursday, February 25, 2016
Saoirse Ronan and Ben Whishaw lead a deep cast in this revival directed by Ivo van Hove at the Walter Kerr Theater.
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The four comics who star in the “Impractical Jokers” television show on TruTV performed live at Radio City Music Hall.
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Tuesday, January 19, 2016
The five-man cast of the Improvised Shakespeare Company builds word-drunk and spot-on parodies of comedies and tragedies right on the spot.
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Ms. Markey, whose new play is about to open at the Abrons Arts Center, has developed a cult following through performances that mix humor, songs and storytelling.
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This play, set in London, is adapted from an Edinburgh Festival Fringe show and will begin a run at the Fourth Street Theater.
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Ms. Pinkins plays the title role of Brecht’s “Mother Courage and her Children” in a Classic Stage Company production.
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The glorious, entertaining, phony, doomed reign of Broadway reporter Michael Riedel.
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Terry Kinney, a Steppenwolf Theater Company founder, has started Mix Tape Productions, infusing rock with the razzmatazz of the theater.
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In this company’s latest project, child actors will not only pretend to be young, middle-age and older adults: But audiences will also see videos of younger versions of these performers.
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The last time the Roundabout Theater staged this drama, in 1984, Pinter himself came to rehearsal to offer help to the cast.
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Ed Schmidt, a playwright who is also a varsity coach at the Trinity School on the Upper West Side, portrays dynamics of the team and the game.
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The playwright’s new work at the Signature Theater examines the late-in-life introspection of a wealthy widow determined to give away all her worldly possessions.
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Friday, July 17, 2015
Mr. Diggs steps into a new Broadway role on Wednesday, replacing Darren Criss in “Hedwig and the Angry Inch.”
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Tuesday, June 16, 2015
At the Beacon Theater, Ms. Schumer was joined by Judd Apatow, Mike Birbiglia and other comedians to promote her coming movie through stand-up.
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This Tony nominee for best play stitches together comedy and horror with the help of Tyrone, the hand puppet that acts as the main character’s angry id.
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In a revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis's dark comedy "Den of Thieves," stealing from mobsters leads to its own moral dilemma.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMWhat happens when “actor’s actors” run amok? Not much. Which is the point of the sly and sloppy experiment called “Brandywine Distillery Fire.”
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