Monday, August 29, 2016
What is true and what is a cultural expectation in this play about a Chinese dissident keep the audience guessing.
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This brisk production from the company Motherlode concerns a village tempted by a stranger to move to new homes down the road.
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A critic revisits the festival for “The Box Show,” “Thud!,” a new “Cyrano,” “Night of the Living N-Word!!” and “Roadkill.”
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Thursday, August 11, 2016
Artists in the New York International Fringe Festival used their creativity to secure rehearsal locations that wouldn’t break the bank.
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Sarah DeLappe’s play focuses on coming of age, the closed ranks of a longtime unit and the loneliness of being an outsider.
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Reviews of “Newton’s Cradle,” “Dust Can’t Kill Me,” “Camp Rolling Hills” and “Ludo’s Broken Bride,” all part of this annual gathering.
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Owen McCafferty’s rage-filled, mournful play, an Abbey Theater in Dublin production, is about terrorism, civil war and the damage that remains after the hatred cools.
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In this musical about the complex relationship between four singers, the actors raise most of the characters above the level of the script.
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A critic revisiting Cape Cod in the high season muses about “The Kritik,” a satire about theater, criticism and the nature of community in a small town.
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“A Scythe of Time,” “Icon” and “Eh Dah? Questions for My Father” investigate themes of death, love and cultural identity in funny and moving ways.
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Lisa Wolpe’s one-woman show, “Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender,” weaves together memoir and passages from the playwright’s work.
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Natalie Margolin’s play centers on three female college roommates whose bonds are tested by the strict rules they use for dating in the digital age.
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These revivals, presented by the Potomac Theater Project, speak to contemporary politics and cultural debate.
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This play wants to be many things, most of all a commentary on the American Dream, but it is dreamlike in the wrong way.
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In just four years, Eric Tucker and Andrus Nichols’s New York-based company has become a critical darling. It’s also keeping them busier than ever.
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The director and designer prepares his new show, “Paradiso: Chapter 1,” a suspense thriller that is also a game.
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In this outdoor production of a Shakespeare classic, audience members follow the actors around through the park.
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Friday, June 24, 2016
The Radio City show’s aim seems to be selling tickets to people who would rather sit back and watch a sanitized simulation of the city.
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In “The Iceman Lab, ” a four-act rethinking of “The Iceman Cometh” at Here, the mood at that depressing saloon has really livened up.
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“The Taming of the Shrew,” now at the Delacorte Theater, reminds women of their duty to their husbands. Here’s a take from a critic — and how some female directors view it.
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This play, directed by Kristin Marting, emphasizes love and mourning through a collage of real online posts.
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Deploying visceral images and sounds, this production at Montclair State University is a radical transfiguration of the Moses story.
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Arguments among intellectuals take precedence in Mac Rogers’s play, set in Czechoslovakia in the years after World War I and overstuffed with ideas.
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Roles were spread around this year, but women are often still playing victims. Our critics discuss what worked, what didn’t and what they hope to see.
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Sigrid Gilmer blends time travel with runaway slaves in this comedy at the Robert Moss Theater, which features a heroic yet human Harriet Tubman.
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Mr. Albo’s new solo show, at Dixon Place, relates his immersion in the world of clinics and blood tests when he agrees to help his best friend become pregnant.
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