Sunday, September 24, 2017
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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“Macbeth Muet” is a frolic through tragedy with puppetry, while “Makbet” is a darkly gregarious production (shots included).
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The National Black Theater production of Liza Jessie Peterson’s monologue explores the personal and societal costs of mass incarceration.
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017
A plantation-set adaptation of “The Cherry Orchard” and a scatological monologue are visceral reminders of theater’s power to unsettle.
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Thomas Klingenstein’s new play about an unrequited interracial love is like watching a sepia-tinged tableau.
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Medora, N.D., population 132 — except in summer when 100,000 tourists pour into town to see a musical celebration of Old West values.
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The playwright is preparing to return to the stage as an actor in “American Buffalo” at the Dorset Theater Festival.
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Monday, July 31, 2017
A program of 10 short pieces, set in and around Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, touches on tennis, dragon boats and the 1939 World’s Fair.
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At the New York Musical Festival, a love story plays out in a divided Berlin, and women entangled in suburban soccer-mom life become the center of another drama.
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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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