Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Ms. Majok grew up in a gritty stretch of North Jersey, the daughter of a house cleaner. She now writes plays infused with economic insecurity.
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This musical traces the evolution of a 7-year-old who arrives in New York from Nazi-occupied Poland and will grow up to become Ms. Ravan, a rock singer.
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The play, by Emily Schwend, is a domestic drama about a young mother raising three children on the low wages of her shift-work jobs.
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Casey Llewellyn’s play, presented by the Foundry Theater, gives audiences a Grover’s Corners concerned with social changes.
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This large-cast elegy from the experimental companies Mabou Mines and Trick Saddle mingles Molière with more recent memories.
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In a cruel manipulation, a film director casts his wife opposite the actor friend he believes she is enamored with.
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This Matt Cox play is a romp through what its subtitle describes as “Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic."
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In this variety-style show, Mr. Hines tells the story of his career rise and that of his brother, Gregory, who died in 2003.
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In this musical at the Apollo, a woman returns to the Harlem brownstone where she grew up and revisits a childhood darkened by the death of a sibling.
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Part 1 of Mr. Jahnke’s trilogy, arriving via Hotel Savant almost five years after Part 3, brings fairy-tale Greek drama to BAM Fisher.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:15PMThis 1923 operetta, still deeply satisfying, has been revived by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34AMTwo crossword enthusiasts meet in an almost empty subway car and wrestle with a contentious mutual attraction.
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Summer camp romance, rivalry, oddballs and fat jokes all have a role in this production from Vineyard Theater.
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This play, presented by Ground Up Productions at 59E59 Theaters, pairs two actors, one self-loathing and suicidal, the other a dedicated conservative Christian.
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As a birthday present for her husband, a woman sets up a surprise meeting for him with his biological mother in this play, at Signature Theater.
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Fred Sauter and Paul Leschen’s new musical features three thinly disguised real stories of besotted people doing crazy things.
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An long-ailing woman who would like to die has a proposal for her nurse in Chisa Hutchinson’s play, at the National Black Theater.
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This show, created for children on the autism spectrum, is a journey into the sky very loosely inspired by Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days.”
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The Canadian puppeteer kept expectations low for “The Daisy Theater” at Baryshnikov Arts Center, a lightheartedly silly show with subtle intelligence.
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Thursday, December 25, 2014
Times writers share last chance theater picks, including “Here Lies Love,” David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim’s musical biodrama of Imelda Marcos.
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Wednesday, August 13, 2014
This rock musical, an import from Iceland, addresses the economic tumult in a town that resides in the titular body part.
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Tuesday, January 21, 2014
