Wednesday, May 17, 2017
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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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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