Friday, February 9, 2018
Roslyn Ruff and Jeff Hiller bring new dimensions to plays about Betty Shabazz and a chatty wedding guest.
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From a historical drama to an updated Restoration comedy classic, Washington, D.C., theaters make a case for evening the playing field.
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This smart, troubling piece of documentary theater spends time with men cordoned off from regular society, and those who believe they can be redeemed.
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Alexa Shae Nizak is uncannily persuasive as an adolescent girl who gets more than she bargained for in Scott Organ’s play.
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Michael Weller resets “Liliom,” the play that inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein, in Coney Island. But the central romance remains problematic.
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This New York-based showcase offers the kind of experimental plays, like “Pillowtalk,” that thrive in more obscure performance spaces.
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The Mint Theater’s handsome, rough around the edges production makes a better case for this 1912 play as a curiosity than as a forgotten gem.
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In her new play “Sovereignty,” Mary Kathryn Nagle brings together her legal activism and her family history.
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In this gentle, humane show by Ping Chong + Company, young New Yorkers share their real-life victories and fears.
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Stark, intricate and often exciting, the two-character chamber opera finds a prisoner tormented by the insect in her cell.
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Four women have sued the company and its artistic director, Albert Schultz, accusing him of sexual misconduct and creating a “culture of fear.”
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The dancer Robert Fairchild’s creature has a delicate, disarming beauty in Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s ambitious but awkward production.
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Friday, December 22, 2017
In acclaimed works like “The Children,” now on Broadway, the British writer argues for collective responsibility in the face of environmental and other challenges.
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Sunday, December 17, 2017
The sprawling life of a New York titan is given superficial treatment — and set to rock music — in this show.
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Twenty-five-year-old Londoner Jamael Westman has definitely come around, now that he’s starring in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop smash.
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This multimedia show, featuring the Lemon Bucket Orkestra and set during the Maidan revolution, doesn’t translate its protest anthems, which the audience is asked to join.
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Cultural appropriation isn’t a worry for the director Ariane Mnouchkine, who, at 78, isn’t slowing down, but knows she won’t be here forever.
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Big Dance Theater’s animated investigation of Samuel Pepys reads like a refraction of our recent monster parade.
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Theresa Rebeck’s furious play looks at what happens when a young architect fights back against colleagues who don’t take her seriously.
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Mickey Rowe is thought to be the first openly autistic actor to play Christopher, a 15-year-old with autism, in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
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Monday, October 23, 2017
As a Manhattan therapist, Alison Fraser may seem composed. But when she tells her story, Aaron Mark’s ghoulish monologue earns its title.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
David Henry Hwang has reworked his gender-blurring, career-launching Tony-winning play to assure that it feels “resonant with the culture today.”
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Diana Oh’s rambunctious show is more a concert with storytelling than a play, but that doesn’t make it any less heartfelt, joyous or necessary
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Seeing Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan” reminds a critic of her own father and why she turns to theater to “confront the hard stuff,” like grieving his death.
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Bringing together wrestlers, a food cart, a cellist and a bandstand, Pig Iron Theater Company takes on catastrophe in “A Period of Animate Existence.”
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