The play, created and directed by Theodora Skipitares, intertwines Lorca’s “Blood Wedding” with the stories of Eric Garner and others killed by the police.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PMIn a movie adapted from his play, the writer and actor Aaron Davidman portrays more than a dozen people affected by the Mideast conflict.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMA documentary finds a group of young people in violence-plagued Richmond, Calif., staging their own version of Romeo and Juliet’s romantic tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMThe Soulpepper production, adapted by Vern Thiessen from W. Somerset Maugham’s novel, tells a beautifully bittersweet tale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThis Jeff Talbott play tells of the exhaustion a cemetery laborer encounters as he navigates his relationships at work and at home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMIn 1700s Austria, a man loves a traveler who can’t stay in his village because she is Jewish. This play’s parallels with current concerns ring clear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PMCircus der Sinne, based in Tanzania, deploys performers who leap, juggle and perform myriad other feats at the New Victory Theater, backed by a live band.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMGideon Irving, who has performed in hundreds of homes in six countries, brings his one-man show of songs, jokes and surprises to Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02PMThis deft revival of a Mike Leigh play, set at a drunken suburban soiree, lays bare the disappointment behind seemingly self-satisfied guests.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:02PMJamie Horton gives a strong performance as George Orwell in an otherwise standard play at 59E59 Theaters that imagines Orwell promoting “Animal Farm” in the United States.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PM“Afterplay,” in its New York debut, could seem slight were it not for the superb pairing of Dermot Crowley and Dearbhla Molloy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMMr. Norman, the first African-American animator on Disney’s staff, hand-drew scenes for classics including “The Jungle Book” and “Sleeping Beauty.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMThis play is part comedy, part historical drama and part biography, as Major General Butler, a Union officer, weighs the fate of escaped slaves.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:20AMSandy Rustin’s play, having its world premiere in Long Branch, is a comedy that wrestles with chance and coincidence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PMOlder actresses, dressed in everyday clothes instead of period costumes, inhabit a range of roles and excite the imagination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PMIn the century-old “Recklessness” and “Now I Ask You,” revived at the Metropolitan Playhouse, O’Neill deals with a scandalous affair and bohemianism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:26PMThis play makes its case by placing its actors amid the audience members as they enact a crime scene, a protest and a funeral.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMBruce Graham’s play, which is having its New Jersey debut, employs a passionate anger while tackling the tough, emotional subjects of aging, memory loss and dementia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMIn the play, written by Laura Eason, two writers at a bed-and-breakfast have chemistry, but the most intriguing moments take place after the sex.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:14PMThe boxer, this one-man show’s subject, had his share of money woes, but the actor playing him, Reginald L. Wilson, is an upbeat presence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:16PMThe story begins soon after a black teenager has fallen to his death while being pursued by a white officer, raising questions over whether he was pushed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PMThe production, poetic yet unpretentious, explores the friction between siblings and a former prison mate near a Louisiana bayou.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMThe production of August Wilson’s play, at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, N.J., tells the story of an African-American family in 1936.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMSeamus Heaney’s adaptation of Sophocles’ “Antigone,” at the Irish Repertory Theater, was written in response to the American invasion of Iraq.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07PMThe Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey takes a restrained approach to the bard’s play, in which the rascal Falstaff tries to seduce and swindle two wealthy wives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:56PMThis production features a cast of four deaf and four hearing actors, using both spoken English and American Sign Language.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:03PM“The Diary of Anne Frank” reminds us that the Franks weren’t just hallowed historical names but something far more complex: human beings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:16PMIn Motti Lerner’s sober drama, a divorced couple meet after 20 years, stirring up divisive issues of faith and individual choice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:45PMAndrew Farmer’s play at the Walker Space raises the specter of a boogeyman who preys on children in 1910 New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMA new drama set in a mostly African-American village soon to be razed for Central Park will debut at Kean University.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:30PMAfter losing its old “stage” to redevelopment, the group presents its first play of the summer at a lot nearby.
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