Tuesday, December 6, 2016
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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This 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.
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Monday, November 21, 2016
This 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.
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This 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.”
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With girlfriends acting as ironic courtside commentators, Andy Bragen’s play examines a highly charged pastime for two men entering middle age.
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Mr. Oliver, who stars in “Attorney Street,” the latest installment of his solo trilogy, takes a melancholy stroll around his former neighborhood.
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John 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.
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In this program of two one-act plays at Here, the company Eagle Project examines how natural disasters take their greatest toll on minority residents.
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This 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.
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Harrison 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.
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Sean Holmes’s contemporary take on Sean O’Casey’s drama set during the 1916 Easter Rising offers no illusions of heroism.
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The new multimedia piece, at the Abrons Arts Center, was based on the producer Anne Hamburger’s experience with placing her son in wilderness therapy.
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The 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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This adaptation of the Jean Genet play puts two pairs of actors — one male, one female — in the title roles as servants yearning for freedom.
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.
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The play, written by and starring Lisa Lampanelli, is a patchwork of standup comedy and monologues that are only loosely sewn together.
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This play features Kevin Augustine as a broken-down heavenly father who is better at making promises than answering prayers.
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Joan 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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Organizers of the summer festival, which has been produced for 20 years, say the hiatus will be used to reconsider the festival’s mission.
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A woman and a man conjure ever-morphing, wildly different ideas in this show from Forced Entertainment, part of the Crossing the Line Festival.
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The play, at the Abrons Arts Center, is adapted by Joshua William Gelb from the 1866 New York stage spectacular of the same name.
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Tuesday, September 20, 2016
The Public Theater’s Mobile Unit took on the challenge of presenting this play in a nontheatrical space in Harlem; now the cast will continue it in a theatrical one.
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Spencer Lott’s play shines in its wordless moments as it follows the decline of a 76-year-old widower with Alzheimer’s disease.
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Hershey Felder plays that “telegenic ham” Leonard Bernstein in “Maestro,” a solo show with songs, at 59E59 Theaters.
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“Underground Railroad Game,” opening at Ars Nova, is a squirm-inducing comic play concerning the legacy of slavery.
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Ellen McLaughlin’s adaptation of Euripides’ tale has its New York premiere at the Flea; the impetus for her work was the Bosnian War.
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What is true and what is a cultural expectation in this play about a Chinese dissident keep the audience guessing.
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