Monday, April 3, 2017
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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The new play by Martin Sherman concerns an intergenerational romance between men played by Harvey Fierstein and Gabriel Ebert.
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The narrator of Courtney Baron’s playreacts with horror when she learns an ex-boyfriend is responsible for a mass shooting.
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Irish Repertory Theater has brought back Ciaran O’Reilly’s revelatory production of O’Neill’s 1920 play, with an almost entirely new cast.
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In “946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips,” Emma Rice directs a fanciful adaptation of another novel by Michael Morpurgo, the author of “War Horse.”
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Featuring dance numbers, This Is Not a Theater Company’s buoyant daydream of a show is set in a pool on the East Side of Manhattan. Acoustics are a challenge.
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Kate Hamill and Eric Tucker team up for another Off Broadway adaptation, this time taking on a novel of social satire.
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Thursday, March 9, 2017
Stephan Wolfert’s one-man show, “Cry Havoc!,” explores a surprising psychic space where Shakespeare and military experience intersect.
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Phillip Howze’s play, at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, is an absurdist take on the cultural imperialism of tourists visiting a developing country.
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The struggle to get by in today’s economy is a tension central to this play by James Anthony Tyler from the Labyrinth Theater Company.
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Thursday, March 2, 2017
The play, by Bryna Turner, is inspired by letters between Mary Woolley, a president of Mount Holyoke College, and Jeannette Marks.
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An honorably discharged private is at the center of this morality play inspired by Dante’s “The Divine Comedy.”
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Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” made its Broadway premiere in 1942. It’s back, again, with fresh resonance.
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At City Center, an irresistible Huckleberry Finn but no new insights into the questions of race and responsibility that his story always raises.
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A new woman in town is really the Greek god Dionysus incarnated as a gardener with a mission in this eco-play at Two River Theater in New Jersey.
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An 11-day celebration of puppet-related stage productions in Chicago, and shows elsewhere, have showed the possibilities of an art form.
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Mr. Roxburgh stars as Mikhail in “The Present,” a Chekhov adaptation that floats along on a vodka tide, at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
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Thursday, January 19, 2017
This solo show, written by Matthew Spangler and Benjamin Evett and starring Mr. Evett, is based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
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This Kate Benson play is set in a Brooklyn spot that promises company and conversation, especially for a lonely woman who wants to attract a man.
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From Under the Radar to Coil to American Realness and beyond, the curtain’s going up on several January festivals that insist on engaged audiences.
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“The Grand Paradise,” “The Dead, 1904,” “Drunk Shakespeare” and “Sleep No More” are participation shows offering special events the night of Dec. 31.
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Friday, December 23, 2016
Thursday, December 22, 2016
Sunday, December 18, 2016
The work, a trip through Anna Kohler’s memories of being a young nude model in Paris, is directed by Caleb Hammond and is partly a sensory experiment.
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The Classical Theater of Harlem’s Christmas musical is a memory show; this year it moves to the main stage of the Apollo.
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Erik Ehn’s sprawling experimental drama at La MaMa, directed by Glory Kadigan, means to be obscure, though probably not to the degree that it is.
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Jacob G. Padrón is the artistic director of the Sol Project, which has found deep pockets to finance its goal of ushering Latinos into the theater mainstream.
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