Thursday, July 20, 2017
In Mohammad Al Attar’s new play, a 20-something Syrian is beaten nearly to death. Will his family and friends (and his country) ever recover?
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In the Encores Off-Center revival of the 1991 Sondheim-Weidman musical, men and women who have shot American presidents get to sing. Will anyone listen?
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All 13 of last season’s new Broadway shows, plus two revivals, produced cast recordings. Here’s our critic’s take on what to play and what to skip.
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Ins Choi’s story of a Toronto store and the Korean immigrant family that runs it is at Pershing Square Signature Center.
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Saturday, July 1, 2017
Thursday, June 29, 2017
Scott McPherson’s 1991 Off Broadway hit about duty to self and to others makes its Broadway debut in a very different world.
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In Meghan Kennedy’s kitchen-table drama at the Roundabout, an immigrant Italian family in 1960 seems ready to explode. Then it does.
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Thrilling argument and a strong American debut make a sometime-strange play soar despite some silliness at Theater for a New Audience.
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Friday, June 16, 2017
At Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, a one-man show about the crusading liberal lawyer defies all of Mr. Spacey’s efforts to bring it to engaging life.
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The assassination of a Trumplike figure in the Public Theater’s production of “Julius Caesar” is already revving up outrage.
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What if Mark Twain’s fictional slave Jim wasn’t fictional? What if his descendants included a righteously angry Afro-Futurist artist?
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John and Ani have disabilities. Jess and Eddie do not. But in Martyna Majok’s gripping new play, all four are constrained by circumstances.
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Mr. Perry has written “The End of Longing,” in which he also stars, and he’ll be there for you when the drinks start to pour.
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The bohemians and aristocrats are gathered in the Sussex countryside in 1914. Guess who’s crashing the party?
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A new musical explores the ancient (and continuing) Afghan practice of bacha bazi, the sale of boys to wealthy men.
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Tuesday, May 23, 2017
In Gina Gionfriddo’s new play, a college graduate working off a catastrophic debt and a working-class single mother both aim to become upwardly mobile.
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Two plays by Mfoniso Udofia, part of a cycle about the members of a Nigerian family, track their migration to the United States.
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What makes the insight fresh in Edward Einhorn’s play is the absurdist language (and Dada style) in which it’s told.
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Encores! makes a marvelous if last-ditch case for the cult musical based on “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey.”
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In numerous subplots set against a vicious civil war, Martín Zimmerman’s play explores the contagion of culpability.
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Our new co-chief theater critic, Jesse Green, offers his take on Ms. Wiest’s work in this Beckett revival. Follow him on Twitter (@JesseKGreen) and Facebook (jesse.green.critic).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24PMOur new co-chief theater critic, Jesse Green, makes his reviewing debut with this Sondheim musical. Follow him on Twitter (@JesseKGreen) and Facebook (jesse.green.critic).
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Offerings include a revival of Suzan-Lori Parks’s “Venus,” at the Signature Theater, and Robert Schenkkan’s “Building the Wall,” at New World Stages.
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In order to explain what’s good about Bandstand, a serious-minded original musical opening on Broadway tonight, it helps to know what’s bad about some of its predecessors on the Boulevar…
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When it debuted in 1990, John Guare’s Six Degrees of Separation played like a satire of liberal values after the hugely disruptive confusions of a decade of Reaganism. The married couple a…
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Many a Broadway musical adaptation seems like an Ikea product you’re supposed to admire just because someone was able to assemble it. Anastasia, opening tonight at the Broadhurst, is that …
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Though often described as confections, musical comedies have no known recipe. If they did, a show like Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, which opened on Broadway tonight, ought to have been…
SOURCE: Vulture at 10:00PMPre-production publicity for Annie Baker’s The Antipodes, which opens tonight at the Signature, revealed only that it is “a play about people telling stories about telling stories.” Th…
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