Sunday, September 16, 2018
This experimental docudrama at La MaMa charts the history of the National Endowment for the Arts and argues for its continued importance.
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In Catya McMullen’s tender and funny play, a brother with Asperger’s syndrome seeks connection as his overprotective sister’s relationship flounders.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMIn “Gloria: A Life,” Ms. Steinem will be portrayed by Christine Lahti, who isn’t shy about making suggestions about moments that belong in the script.
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Yes, household objects stand in for famous characters. But in the hands of master storytellers, these condensed versions can cast a spell.
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Ensuring that “I Was Most Alive With You” was accessible to both hearing and deaf audiences made rehearsal dauntingly complex — and a little confusing.
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The play, set in 1914, is staged as if in a London air-raid shelter in 1940. It’s an ungainly frame for this crisp comedy.
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Friday, August 31, 2018
The National Asian American Theater Company puts on a fast-paced and unusually lucid staging of the bloody history play.
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The creators of this folk-rock musical about the second man on the moon want us to sympathize with his emotional wound.
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This dementedly daffy piece of fun, from the theater company TV, will give you a warm glow in the fleeting moment it’s here for a brief run.
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The Mint Theater Company’s revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1936 play is a mishmash of acting styles, tonally uneven and frustratingly unfocused.
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A production with same-sex leads is one of many signs that directors are approaching the Rodgers and Hammerstein classic with new eyes.
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Jonathan Leaf sticks close to historical fact in his ambitious new verse play, but the action in this production always feels removed, like a diorama.
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A play based on a confessional, self-obsessed woman’s memoir — from the 15th century — is back, at the Duke.
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Following “The Originalist,” the judge talked fondly about its subject: her frequent legal sparring partner Antonin Scalia.
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But, racing through 40 classic Leiber and Stoller songs in 90 intermission-less minutes, the show only occasionally slows down enough to breathe.
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This immersive British import at Roy Arias Stages puts a crusty toilet in the center of the audience, but it lacks the film version’s sense of seamy tragedy.
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Defiance and justice drive this brisk staging from the Classical Theater of Harlem, directed by Carl Cofield.
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Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj’s visceral play with music explores an ugly historical chapter in the fight for school integration.
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In this Charles Mee play, two sixty-somethings, who have never known true love, find the tender comfort of companionship.
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There are shows that find their true best form in concert. “Songs for a New World,” which was Jason Robert Brown’s first musical, is one of these.
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Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt are just a few of the apparitions in Christina Quintana’s bittersweet new comedy about a lesbian wrestling with her Catholic upbringing.
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The women in Will Arbery’s funny, surreal, ultimately muddled play devote vast emotional acreage to men who don’t return the favor.
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Natalie Soto and her brother, Christian, joined a training program at Roundabout Theater Company that aims to diversify the ranks of theater workers.
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Certain moments are politically and artistically potent, but most of “Fruit Trilogy,” a program of three short plays, is pervaded by a curious flatness.
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In the middle of “Harry Potter and the Cursed Child” and “Angels in America” are late-afternoon gaps to fill. We offer some ideas to pass the time.
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Antoinette Nwandu’s “Pass Over” considers the fate of young black men in a gun-torn city. Its first production caused a stir — and won a fan in Spike Lee.
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In Nilo Cruz’s poetic tangle of a play, an opera star finds the recipient of her husband’s heart after he dies in a car accident.
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Maly Drama Theater’s spare, subdued — and slow — adaptation finds dreamy lovers split apart by political schemers.
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Majority rule (mostly). One play per playwright. How we put together the 25 Plays list, and a bid to remember notable writers and favorite works that missed the cut.
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