After losing its old "stage" to redevelopment, the group presents its first play of the summer at a lot nearby.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PM[SHARE]Set on a Caribbean island, a new stage drama, "Closure," revolves around the disappearance of a young woman, the strain it puts on her parents and a detective's efforts to find her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PM[SHARE]"Love's Labour's Lost," presented in an outdoor amphitheater, displays exceptional Shakespearean wordplay that makes it hard to produce, requiring a mastery of language and pacing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PM[SHARE]This third cycle of plays includes a tale about two Japanese courtesans and another about the trajectory of a father-daughter relationship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:58PM[SHARE]Winsome Brown's one-woman show remembers the performer's cigarette-smoking, alcoholic and Dublin-born mother in a flesh-and-blood portrait.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PM[SHARE]For an audience being held hostage by “TheBcam/MacBeth,” even the intermission is an ordeal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Even when “In Transit,” an a cappella musical about a group of New Yorkers and their travails, turns a bit too sweet, it’s tough not to smile along.
The Pearl Theater Company’s production of Ibsen’s “Rosmersholm” is compelling, as the characters grapple with unvoiced emotions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Momentum,” from the Tel Aviv performance troupe Mayumana, has an infectious beat and physical pyrotechnics to match.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Carnival Round the Central Figure” is an absurd and macabre meditation on death.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]In “Molly Sweeney,” at the Irish Repertory Theater, a woman who has been blind almost since birth undergoes an operation, with profound consequences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Experimental theater often requires your forbearance, and “Storm Still,” a riff on Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” tests the audience’s boundaries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Dan Lauria (the dad in "The Wonder Years") wrote and stars in this comedy about mobsters awaiting punishment for a botched job.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PM[SHARE]The four-character play by Richard Strand is having its world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04PM[SHARE]"Rapture, Blister, Burn," a play by Gina Gionfriddo, will run through May 3 at the Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater in Summit, N.J.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PM[SHARE]"Baskerville," a comic retelling of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle, finds Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson being asked to investigate a death in the English countryside.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:46AM[SHARE]The Jonathan Tolins play, "Buyer & Cellar," at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, imagines the hiring of a caretaker for Barbra Streisand's underground mall of keepsakes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:32PM[SHARE]The war transformed a benign theater project into a docuplay that tries, with some success, to convey the feeling of living in a country being plunged into chaos.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PM[SHARE]In "The Most Deserving" in Summit, conflict and comedy develop over who will get an arts grant in a small town in Kansas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PM[SHARE]Mr. Cariani has joined the cast of his new nine-vignette romantic comedy, billed as a "darker cousin" to his international hit "Almost, Maine."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:20PM[SHARE]"The Road to Damascus" traces the United States government's diplomatic maneuvering after a pair of domestic attacks lead " accurately or not " to Syria.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PM[SHARE]Writers and editors for The New York Times list memorable moments onstage this year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PM[SHARE]"On the Other Side of the River," translated from Peretz Hirshbein's Yiddish original, centers on a young woman whose parents drowned and now feels threatened by rising waters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PM[SHARE]"The Fabulous Lipitones," in New Brunswick, works just fine without much glitter or glamour " its greatest pleasures spring from the simplest of intentions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:17PM[SHARE]The one-man show "Wiesenthal," written by and starring Tom Dugan, humanizes appalling events.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Dialogue is loudly delivered in service of an Issue, with a capital I, in Nikkole Salter's tale of a mother's effort to get her daughter a better education.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:35PM[SHARE]In "Outside Mullingar," by John Patrick Shanley, two unmarried Irish neighbors, one quirky and one stubborn, deal with lost youth and thinning chances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PM[SHARE]A revival of Lee Blessing's "A Walk in the Woods" stars Kathleen Chalfant as a Soviet arms treaty negotiator.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]A new take on Shakespeare's 'Antony and Cleopatra' at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton focuses on the raging romance rather than the battles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:43PM[SHARE]"Dinner With the Boys," making its world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, is a hokey comedy that's far more enjoyable than it really should be.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:19PM[SHARE]"Teach, Teacher, Teachest" is the latest in a spate of re-envisioned Ionesco plays.
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