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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Tuesday, November 21, 2017
Billy Crudup is having a blast as a Midwestern sad sack and his English alter ego in David Cale’s one-man, double-life play at the Vineyard.
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Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk’s musical is about a high school senior who finds inspiration and danger in “On the Road.”
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Jocelyn Bioh’s new play takes the “Mean Girls” genre to a boarding school in Ghana, refreshing and deepening it in the process.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMCity Center’s gorgeous revival of the Lerner & Loewe musical, staged by Christopher Wheeldon and starring Kelli O’Hara, disappears after Sunday.
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Two millenniums of oppression may not seem very funny, but in his latest one-man show, Mr. Leguizamo hones the art of comic revisionism.
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In Anna Ziegler’s new play, a charge of sexual assault on a college campus leads to a hearing that may be worse than the events that prompted it.
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In Julia Cho’s tense new work, a creative-writing teacher tries to reach a shut-down (and possibly armed) young student.
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With nonverbal characters and savants, a new play demonstrates just how broad and multicolored that spectrum is.
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“Marcel” and “The Art of Laughter” at Theater for a New Audience offer a demonstration and then a master class in European-style clowning.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07PMKnown for brassy musicals like “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” David Yazbek is also a dark solo act. Now, with “The Band’s Visit,” his different personas come together.
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Denise Gough is sensational as a strung-out actress facing a world of questions about addiction and responsibility in a play by Duncan Macmillan.
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With its relentless fusillade of punch lines, John Patrick Shanley’s new play starring Jason Alexander and Sherie Rene Scott winds up on the ropes.
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A riveting revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s prison drama may be more timely today than at its premiere in 2000.
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In a hybrid of concert and autobiography, Bruce Springsteen delivers a major statement about his life’s work — but also a major revision of it.
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Elizabeth McGovern stars as a narcissistic materfamilias in the first Broadway revival of J. B. Priestley’s 1937 metaphysical drama.
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A young black man in 1961 must choose between going to college and joining the Freedom Rides in Jiréh Breon Holder’s play at Roundabout Underground.
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Does having children tame the wild gay spirit? To answer the question, a new satire by Dan Giles looks to an unusual pair of experts.
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The director John Doyle brings to Shakespeare the same techniques that helped him refresh many a musical. So why doesn’t it work?
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A child’s illness raises existential questions in Amy Herzog’s heartbreaking new play, starring Carrie Coon, at New York Theater Workshop.
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A transgender etiquette expert faces pupils who have bigger issues than what fork to use in Philip Dawkins’s new play.
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In its out-of-town tryout, the stage adaptation of the highest-grossing animated movie of all time offers delights and difficulties.
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In Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday,” five siblings face the loss of a parent, their own mortality and a fear of flying.
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The playwright Michael Yates Crowley mixes unlikely genres in “The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias.”
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A spate of revivals will allow audiences to consider what’s changed, what hasn’t, and what Bob Mackie has in the sequin drawer.
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Group weddings, Korean pop, a superannuated Peter Pan and a transgender Emily Post are among the promising theatrical experiences of September.
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Monday, August 21, 2017
An experimental “Music Man” gets into trouble with a capital T, while a straightforward “Company” gleams and a complicated “Legendary Romance” fades.
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Theater has quickly taken on the Trump presidency. Whether what’s onstage can change minds or spark action is open to debate.
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Canada’s renowned repertory theater shows off a versatile troupe of actors in plays as varied as “Timon of Athens” and “Guys and Dolls.”
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