Monday, July 24, 2017
James Smith’s solo show, part of Soulpepper’s New York residency, examines his family’s history of disorders with a striking lack of bitterness.
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Howard Barker’s BBC teleplay is being professionally staged for the first time, thanks to Potomac Theater Project, which has regularly mounted his work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PMLooking after her ailing husband, and the perils of climate change, are inspirations for her new play, “Singing Beach.”
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This Wooster Group production, inspired by Tadeusz Kantor and his play “I Shall Never Return,” is an esoteric project that fails to connect with its audience.
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Gender inequality remains a problem, but it’s heartening to see playwrights and performers argue for more opportunities.
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Actresses play the brother-rivals in a lampoon of “True West” that works better on the page than on the stage.
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Mr. Norris’s play, which had its premiere in 2010, is just now arriving in New York with its jaundiced view of human relations.
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These writers and performers are using the warmer months to take some risks, test themselves and expand their talents onstage.
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Mrs. Malaprop misspeaks outdoors when New York Classical Theater brings a lighthearted comedy of manners to Central Park.
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For Soulpepper Theater Company, putting on 30 productions at home won’t do this year. The Toronto troupe is also programming a New York theater center for July.
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For an adaptation of “The Bacchae,” the Stratford Festival hired Tonia Sina, who teaches a codified method of approaching onstage intimacy.
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After a bracing revival of “The Glass Menagerie” this spring, and last year’s “Othello,” Mr. Gold takes on another Shakespeare drama.
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Thursday, June 8, 2017
Friday, June 2, 2017
An evocative production of Charles Mee’s play features disabled actors on a set that seems reassembled from the drawings of James Castle.
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Scott McPherson’s play, a deathbed comedy that premiered Off Broadway in 1991, is inextricable from his struggle with AIDS.
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Mr. Malloy’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” is up for 12 Tonys. His studio whiteboard suggests how that came to be.
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Thursday, May 18, 2017
The 36th Marathon of One-Act Plays: Series A, produced at Ensemble Studio Theater with the Radio Drama Network, is off to a rousing start.
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Wednesday, May 10, 2017
Ms. Majok, who grew up in working-class New Jersey, has fleshed out her short work “John, Who’s Here From Cambridge” into a larger piece.
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Half immersive spectacle, half cabaret, this satire is a provocative and unnerving exploration of American racism.
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O’Neill’s Civil War-era Greek tragedy is infused with new relevance in a production directed by David Herskovits.
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The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit winds up its five-borough tour of Shakespeare’s comedy about mistaken identity.
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Boris Akunin’s take on Shakespeare’s broody prince is full of intrigue, but it often feels like a “Hamlet” highlight reel.
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It takes nerve to follow up on Ibsen. But “A Doll’s House, Part 2” is hardly the first Broadway show to check in with beloved characters.
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This Pulitzer-winning playwright finally gets her due, with a retelling of a controversial 1923 play that featured Broadway’s first stage kiss between two women.
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A young couple’s engagement brings cultural tensions to the surface between secular and fundamentalist families. Yet not all is as it seems.
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After a lonely upbringing, Obi Abili made his way to acting. Now he’s winning raves off Broadway in the title role of “The Emperor Jones.”
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