Friday, August 28, 2015
Wednesday in 2d graf is Sept. 2 Playwrights including Beth Henley, David Grimm, Marcus Gardley and John Guare talk about adapting Williams’s stories for the Acting Company.
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With nearly 200 productions, navigating this festival can be difficult, but it can also be a surprisingly happy theatergoing experience.
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Manhattan Theater Club’s coming season of productions solely by white male playwrights led to a sometimes heated discussion on Twitter and other social media outlets.
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Wednesday, August 12, 2015
Mr. Summers’s one-man show details his online correspondence with the title’s inspiration: a man, possibly Australian, who submitted lyrics to him over seven years.
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Kelley Curran steals the show in Taibi Magar’s staging of this comedy, presented in Lenox, Mass., by Shakespeare & Company.
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In Howard L. Craft’s century-spanning play at Here, J. Alphonse Nicholson plays a minstrel, a faith healer, an F.B.I. informant, an actor and a homeless man.
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This jazz-infused play at the Williamstown Theater Festival stars Blair Underwood as a bullying nightclub owner and De’Adre Aziza as the alluring stranger who comes to town.
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The odd-couple match of flamenco and ancient Greek tragedy in this production at West Park Presbyterian Church makes an “Aha!” kind of sense of the Sophocles work.
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This play by Clifford Odets, directed by Stephen Brown-Fried at the Public Theater, is about a struggling Bronx family with aspirations.
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Tim Ruddy’s three-monologue drama takes place during an unnamed conflict that seems very much like Bosnian Serb forces’ slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica.
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Monday, July 13, 2015
Thursday, July 9, 2015
Purposefully formulaic characters, a gender bend and a ghost with the name of a company member come together in this sendup of a play.
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Carl Cofield directs the Classical Theater of Harlem’s production, which stars Ron Cephas Jones as Prospero.
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Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub star in this production at the Flea Theater, directed by Andrei Belgrader.
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This performance artist and singer has remade his “Love of a Poet,” based on Robert Schumann’s song cycle “Dichterliebe.”
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Michael Perlman’s play, presented by Fault Line Theater, convenes a group of dinner party guests who tussle over abortion, race and class.
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The playwright took a bus from Manhattan to Reading, Pa., to revisit the theater that inspired his new play, “Shows for Days.”
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Tamilla Woodard delivers a breezy production that is warm-blooded and frolicsome for Masterworks Theater Company.
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In Craig Wright’s comic romance, Kari and Peter meet again at their 20th high school reunion, and he wants her back.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:40PMMr. Wainwright combines his work with that of his father, the writer Loudon Wainwright Jr., in his solo show.
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Sam Marks’s play, at the Flea Theater, tackles art-world pretensions and a frustrated painter and father-to-be’s existential crisis.
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The Irish drag queen Panti, who gained fame when her speech about homophobia went viral, makes an argument for the freedom to be oneself at the Irish Arts Center.
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This mournful play, adapted from a novel by the Israeli-based Lithuanian author Grigory Kanovich, is presented by the Cherry Orchard Festival.
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Eve Sicular’s play documents her grandmother’s life, with help from J. Edgar Hoover’s watchful eye and meticulous records.
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This theater’s 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays includes a marital comedy by Julia Cho and a portrait of intimacy and entitlement by Martyna Majok.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMMr. Wilde talks about his unnerving vampire tale at 59E59 Theaters, which depicts two women — one all-controlling, the other wrapped up in fantasy tales.
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Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady’s play, at the New Ohio Theater, includes Catherine Brookman’s music, rising water levels, New England farmers and marine animals behaving oddly.
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