Sunday, June 30, 2019
His world tour “The Man. The Music. The Show.” stopped at Madison Square Garden. But it would have been better on Broadway.
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To make the actors comfortable, the director of “Frankie and Johnny” brought in an expert in staging sex scenes — Broadway’s first, and certainly not its last.
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Wednesday, June 19, 2019
Hollywood filmmakers tell a period story set in China in Gordon Dahlquist’s layered look at truth, lies and the power of narrative.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMBased on an anecdote from the set of an infamous commercial, the play focuses on the behind-the-scenes people who work to realize an artist’s vision.
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Bekah Brunstetter’s civic-minded new play is about parenthood, paternalism and what it means to work for the people.
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Thursday, May 30, 2019
Set in the 1930s, this musical comedy about a young man striving for stardom lands most of its jokes in song.
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Monday, May 20, 2019
Erica Schmidt’s raucously exuberant adaptation finds common cause between rebellious teenagers and bloody-minded Shakespeare.
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Things are tense and tingly enough before the curtain rises at any time of the year. What’s it like during prize season?
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Sunday, May 12, 2019
Romeo Castellucci’s Tocqueville-inspired spectacle, presented by Peak Performances, offers highbrow style without the substance to back it up.
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The play, a sort-of autobiographical story about an author and an inmate, includes a post-show “community conversation” about incarceration.
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Stephen Unwin’s play, set in Germany in 1941, explores the reluctant evil perpetrated by people who think of themselves as good.
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Michael Stuhlbarg is sublime in the title role of Tim Blake Nelson’s admiring but overlong play, presented as part of the Onassis Festival.
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The perspectives of women are welcome in an art form that inherently fosters empathy — and in which it matters greatly whom we’re asked to feel for.
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Sunday, April 7, 2019
This charming new piece of site-specific theater from the company Third Rail Projects is staged on the steps of the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place.
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The latest Mabou Mines production is a strikingly designed but ultimately bloodless take on the weird second part of Goethe’s classic.
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Monday, March 18, 2019
Quincy Tyler Bernstine, now starring in “Marys Seacole,” is drawn to the toughest, brainiest roles. And playwrights are drawn to her to pull them off.
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A low-key spotter of high-wattage talent, Jason Eagan has made Ars Nova the launchpad for creative types merging uptown and downtown sensibilities.
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Wednesday, March 6, 2019
A drama set in a college classroom during a campus shooting, “Good Friday,” at the Flea Theater, is meant to unsettle and provoke.
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Kristine Haruna Lee’s gorgeously complex play is made up of sharp vignettes that open up to explore Japanese-American identity.
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A dissection of an episode of “The X-Files” is the jumping-off point for an exploration of a fragile and tortured identity.
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This gleefully but fatally overloaded play riffs on sci-fi, time-travel and airplane-disaster movies, while sending up our screen-obsessed culture.
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The scientist in Edward Einhorn’s uneven romantic dramedy wants to find solid proof of his girlfriend’s devotion. Which is his first problem.
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“When Angels Fall,” at Peak Performances, and “Non Solus,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, blend circus with dance in feats of perfect equilibrium.
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Two shows enlist their spectators as witnesses, exhorting the Americans in the room to consider what our nation is doing in our name.
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