Friday, June 1, 2018
Wednesday, May 30, 2018
An intermittently thrilling new musical built around 22 Alanis Morissette songs seems to have 22 different themes, all worthy.
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An English professor may have chosen the wrong role model for his love life in “Faust.” Just ask his wife. And his mistress.
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Sunday, May 20, 2018
Twelve angry men and women await the return of a missing corpse in a revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s dark comedy.
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In Dominique Morisseau’s new play, Detroit’s mayor wants to clear “urban blight,” but some black jazzmen say, “We the blight he talkin’ about.”
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A 2018 look at the 1986 Broadway version of a 1937 musical leaves some things blurry and others all too clear.
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Disagreeing on classic musicals, agreeing on “The Band’s Visit,” and worried about a season when revivals outshone new plays.
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Caryl Churchill’s play about a moment of hope after the English Civil War gets a very dark revival at New York Theater Workshop.
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Ain Gordon’s new play tells a powerful story of gay life in America from the unusual point of view of a psychiatrist most famous for wearing a mask.
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Even a riveting central performance isn’t enough to release the potential of Tennessee Williams’s follow-up to “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
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Condola Rashad stars in a thoughtful if mostly becalmed Manhattan Theater Club revival of the 1923 play on Broadway.
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Sunday, April 22, 2018
Thursday, April 19, 2018
Lauren Ambrose stars as a newly empowered flower girl in a gorgeous revival that transforms the classic musical into an ur-text for our #MeToo moment.
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The first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff’s 1980 play shows that it was ahead of its time about deafness, but not about gender.
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A new musical at the Public Theater reinvents the family road trip narrative as a mother-daughter tale of immigration policy gone astray.
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Years after committing a senseless murder, a young man returns to his Nebraska hometown. That’s when the real trial begins.
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A new electro-folk singspiel by the authors of “100 Days” finds horror under the skin of a seemingly idyllic childhood.
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After 23 years in politics, the English star of “Elizabeth R” returns to the American stage in a torrential revival of Edward Albee’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMBeyond the blockbuster musicals (and Harry Potter) this month, there are a handful of potential gems like “Saint Joan,” “Miss You Like Hell” and “Iceman Cometh.”
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Arin Arbus’s new production at Theater for a New Audience makes a powerful case for one of Shakespeare’s strangest works.
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The neurotic stage musical adaptation of the animated blockbuster raises questions about how Disney transforms its biggest hits.
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The Parrotheads were after me.
Parrotheads are fans of the singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and I am the co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. Normally our flight paths would not…
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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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