Memory, gender and fantasy blend in this play about a Vietnam veteran and his offspring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMThis solo show, written by Matthew Spangler and Benjamin Evett and starring Mr. Evett, is based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThis 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMThis six-actor adaptation by Matt Opatrny of the Dickens classic brings humanizing touches to the story.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:32PMThe 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMThe Classical Theater of Harlem’s Christmas musical is a memory show; this year it moves to the main stage of the Apollo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMErik 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:02PMThis book by Arthur and Barbara Gelb expresses a professional admiration for Mr. O’Neill but goes into great detail about the unflattering parts of his life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMThe loss of a young son is the central force in this work by the Dutch playwright Lot Vekemans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:02PMThis Hansol Jung play, set from the 1940s through the mid-1970s, centers on a woman with an urn of her father’s ashes and includes Jesus in disguise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMThis show grew out of Israel Horovitz’s radio play of the same name, inspired by an Alaskan avalanche that buried a man in a cabin under 30 feet of snow.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMChristopher Bayes, who teaches physical acting at Yale, has trained a generation of comic performers, including many in “The Servant of Two Masters.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMWith girlfriends acting as ironic courtside commentators, Andy Bragen’s play examines a highly charged pastime for two men entering middle age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMMr. Oliver, who stars in “Attorney Street,” the latest installment of his solo trilogy, takes a melancholy stroll around his former neighborhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMJohn Fleck veers into gothic horror spoof in his solo show, “Blacktop Highway,” at Dixon Place. With video and puppetry, it is gory and gleefully dark.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMIn this program of two one-act plays at Here, the company Eagle Project examines how natural disasters take their greatest toll on minority residents.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMThis MJ Kaufman play centers on a transgender character who finds solace in an enormous tree as he deals with issues of identity, intimacy and family.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMHarrison David Rivers’s new play, at the National Black Theater, pits Kansas siblings against each other in a bid for a Columbia graduate’s heart.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMSean Holmes’s contemporary take on Sean O’Casey’s drama set during the 1916 Easter Rising offers no illusions of heroism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PMThe new multimedia piece, at the Abrons Arts Center, was based on the producer Anne Hamburger’s experience with placing her son in wilderness therapy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMThe highlight of “Inner Voices,” a program of three musical monologues presented by Premieres at TBG Theater, is “The Pen,” sung by Nancy Anderson.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMThe new piece from the dance and theater company Witness Relocation is a meditation on middle age that does not want to go gentle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMThe play, written by and starring Lisa Lampanelli, is a patchwork of standup comedy and monologues that are only loosely sewn together.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:34PMThis play features Kevin Augustine as a broken-down heavenly father who is better at making promises than answering prayers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMJoan Plowright & Amanda Plummer played "Jo" to great acclaim, add REBEKAH BROCKMAN to that list since her memorable & assured performance is the chief attraction of Austin Pendleton's produc…
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