Monday, March 12, 2018
Thursday, March 8, 2018
David Rabe’s dramedy is set in the emotional war zone of a mental health center, where the patients are colorful and the therapists are troubled.
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The characters in Martyna Majok’s new play come from Poland, Afghanistan, Honduras and elsewhere. Illegal or not, they’re New Yorkers now.
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As Taylor Trensch takes over the title role in the Tony-winning musical, the show’s meaning and impact change too.
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In Jordan Harrison’s wily comedy, a medieval theater troupe tries to outrun the Black Death — and the critics.
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Hammaad Chaudry’s first play is an ambitious look at the traumas of dislocation among the assimilated children of Pakistani immigrants in London.
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Thursday, February 22, 2018
Bernadette Peters, sadder but wiser, makes a very different Mrs. Levi from her predecessors in the hit revival.
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A terrific revival of this master playwright’s double bill of “Homelife” and “The Zoo Story” proves that there was nowhere he would not go.
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A political neophyte discovers the ethical nightmare of governance — lobbyists and donors and super PACs, oh my! — in Sarah Burgess’s new play.
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Tuesday, February 6, 2018
In a new one-woman show, the author of “The Vagina Monologues” connects global violence and her own life-threatening illness.
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In Terrence McNally’s new play, Diaghilev invents Nijinsky, modern ballet and the 20th century. And that’s just in the first act.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMPoliticians, talk-show hosts, feminists, actors and executioners are featured in intriguing productions opening off Broadway.
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She’s got a big idea and he’s got a big headache in Greg Pierce’s new play about a Rust Belt town on the skids and a desperate plan to save it.
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A new play recreates, sometimes shot by shot, the 1973 tennis match promoted as the Battle of the Sexes. If only it scored any points.
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Ngozi Anyanwu’s comedy wrings all the pleasure possible out of its familiar tropes even as it revamps their meaning entirely.
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Dael Orlandersmith’s new play explores the lives — both black and white — left behind in the wake of the 2014 police shooting in Ferguson.
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A new comedy at the Bushwick Starr satirizes 20-somethings, gentrifiers, landlords and activists. In other words, Bushwick.
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In a touching tribute to his father and the tradition of reading aloud, Mr. Lithgow recites two classic tales of deception and comeuppance.
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At the 14th Under the Radar festival, artists working with found audio and video stretch the boundaries of theater.
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Robert O’Hara’s latest satire takes on too many targets as it imagines a future world in which men still ruin everything.
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In Lucy Kirkwood’s chilling play, the meltdown of a nuclear power plant is not just an environmental crisis, but an existential one.
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Susan Soon He Stanton’s new play uses only audio interactions, from voice mail to intercom, to tell a story about the breakdown of intimacy.
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Théâtre du Soleil brings a huge, dizzy epic of all the world’s ills (and theatrical styles) to the Park Avenue Armory.
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Rajiv Joseph’s new play jams 90 years of lies, fantasies, propaganda and conspiracy into just under three hours. Also: the worst soup ever.
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After a dismal theatrical fall, this 1990 musical fable, set in the French Antilles, is a big, bold delight.
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Dark plays are fitting for a dark month, and perhaps for our national mood. These productions offer criticism, mystery, warning and hope.
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Wednesday, November 29, 2017
The comic actress makes her Broadway debut in Steve Martin’s funny if strained play about two couples sharing a stressful celestial evening together.
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