“The Hamlet Project” version of the Shakespeare tragedy mixes drinking and comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:05PM“King Kong,” a musical written by Alfred Preisser, Randy Weiner and DJ Cold Cut, with a score by Wes Matthews, gives a classic new dimensions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22PMFrom the immense lineup of shows in the New York International Fringe Festival, staff members at The Times play some hunches and make some picks to see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PM“Richard III,” presented by the Drilling Company’s Shakespeare in the Parking Lot, stars Alessandro Colla as the scheming villain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:47PM“Dancing on Nails,” a play at Theater 80, focuses on a 1950s-era Jewish hardware store owner who hires a young black woman and develops romantic feelings toward her. &nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMShakespeare in the Parking Lot returns to the Lower East Side with a boisterous production of “Cymbeline.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:28PMThe 21st century echoes parts of “The Henrietta,” an 1887 production now at the Metropolitan Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:56PMThree first ladies are portrayed by one actress-playwright in “Tea for Three,” by Elaine Bromka and Eric H. Weinberger at Urban Stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:16PM“21,” presented by Repertorio Español at the Gramercy Arts Theater, centers on a rambunctious family’s bumpy celebration at a casino.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMIn “The Weir,” four men and a woman meet at a pub, where they crack jokes, drink too much, swap stories and reveal themselves slowly.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMThere are so many meant-to-shock moments in Tommy Smith’s “White Hot” that tedium soon replaces repulsion.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:11PM“Pinkolandia,” by Andrea Thome, recounts the story of a family of Chilean exiles that has relocated to Wisconsin.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PM“Scrambled Eggs,” a play by Robin Amos Kahn and Gary Richards, is about a premenopausal woman reflecting on her commonplace life, her past boyfriends and her eventual marriage to a nice …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMAllison Moore’s comedy “Collapse” is built around a couple dealing with infertility and other serious issues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:50AM“According to Goldman” tells of problems encountered as a professor and a student work on a screenplay.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMWhat’s the next level after impressed? Whatever it is, that emotion arrives often in “Totem,” the newest show from Cirque du Soleil.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:21PMA cheerful Strindberg play? It’s true; his “Easter” is anything but depressing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:27PMIn the saloon at the center of Adam Szymkowicz’s “Clown Bar” the regulars wear clown makeup and costumes, and speak in the hard-boiled slang of 1930s gangsters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:28PMThe British troupe Theater Cut is presenting a program of short works written in response to the worldwide economic slowdown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMThe wildly percussive “Mulan the Musical,” at the Peter Jay Sharp Theater, isn’t Disney, although it tells the story of the same high-spirited heroine.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMThe mime troupe Mummenschanz returns with tried-and-true skits that continue to be crowd-pleasers, even if the crowd is made up of gadget-obsessed youngsters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:22PM“Blood Potato,” by James McManus, is a family drama of three brothers on the edge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00PMMike Vogel’s play “March Madness,” set in an unhappy newsroom, derives humor from the kind of office politics seen in television sitcoms.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:43PMWith its new show, “Legendarium,” the Big Apple Circus continues to occupy Damrosch Park at Lincoln Center during the fall and early winter.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PM“Cry for Peace: Voices From the Congo” captures the horror of violence through the words of the actors, who are real survivors of what they describe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:47PM“Urban” features graduates from Circo Para Todos in an act reminiscent of Cirque du Soleil’s, but with a decidedly hip-hop feel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMThough “The Old Man and the Old Moon” bills itself as a “play with music,” you’ll need more words than those to sum it up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:26PMPolitics and human nature play out in “Both Your Houses,” Maxwell Anderson’s 1933 Pulitzer Prize winner.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:55PM“Winners” and “Losers,” two plays by Brian Friel presented as “Lovers,” are being staged at the Beckett Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:56AMThe warmhearted play “Marius” is a bit short on plot, but this revival, by the Storm Theater Company, doesn’t want for talent.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:45PM“The Exonerated,” in a revival at the Culture Project, recounts the tales of six former death-row inmates, using their own words. And 10 years after its premiere, it is still unsettling.
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