Friday, September 12, 2014
In “Imagining O,” Richard Schechner meshes Shakespeare with “Story of O,” depicting women as strong and defiant.
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In “Juárez: A Documentary Mythology,” at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, actors recite the accounts of residents who have witnessed that border’s town’s cycle of violence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMPoetry plays a big part in the one-man show “A Sucker Emcee,” “Ndebele Funeral” and the Irish play “Boys and Girls.”
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Lauren Gunderson’s play “Bauer” follows the trajectory of Rudolf Bauer, a 20th-century painter who came close to stardom until his patron died.
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“Dead Behind These Eyes” is a karaoke play that uses video, dance and lyrics to tell a story in a small space.
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The musical revival of “Red Eye of Love,” by the Tony winners Ted Sperling and John Wulp, is already a victory of sorts.
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Ruby Rae Spiegel, still a Yale undergraduate, will see her play “Dry Land,” about a DIY abortion, produced in New York.
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The revival of “Pippin” has evolved into a warmer, giddier show, but the darkness is still there, beneath the surface.
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The temperance movement, undocumented immigrants and obsessive-compulsive disorder are among the theater topics in this year’s New York International Fringe Festival.
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The chance to put on a show cheaply in New York makes FringeNYC, known for its young artists and audiences, a lure for veteran performers, too.
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Summer Shorts, an annual festival of one-act plays, includes offerings by Daniel Reitz, Neil LaBute and Albert Innaurato in its Series B.
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An upbeat new musical pushes a girl-power message, casting two historical characters as strong-willed, smart, selfless heroines who choose their own destinies.
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“Play/Date,” a collection of short plays about love and relationships, is performed on three levels of a Lower East Side bar.
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Sunday, July 20, 2014
In “The Gig,” a ragtag band of middle-age, middle-class jazz amateurs get a shot at some professional work.
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Ally Sheedy returns to the stage, with her celebrity toned down, playing a mother whose son is imprisoned for rape in the Off Broadway drama “The Long Shrift.”
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“The Pigeoning” follows Frank, who believes pigeons are plotting against him in this puppet play created and directed by Robin Frohardt.
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Brian Sutton’s romantic comedy spends time with the suitors left behind after Romeo and Juliet fall in love.
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“Fuerza Bruta: Wayra” is a mixed-media happening at the Daryl Roth Theater in which the audience is in the thick of things, and sometimes even wet.
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Carroll Simmons, a performance collective, created a parody about Lena Dunham in “Too Many Lenas 3: Let Them Eat Cake.”
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Friday, June 27, 2014
The young cast members of “The Mysteries” at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa perform free, while holding down or looking for jobs by day.
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Lucas Kavner’s surprising and very funny new play, “Carnival Kids,” directed by Stephen Brackett, is part a reckoning of a father-son relationship.
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“Los Monólogos de la Vagina,” a version of Eve Ensler’s work in Spanish, is using the typical rotating-cast format in its run at the Westside Theater.
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“The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise” features characters who admit that their worlds could use more spark.
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The Vakhtangov State Academic Theater’s “Eugene Onegin” at City Center is a play with music and dance, composed of scenes from the Pushkin novel in verse.
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The Drilling Company’s streamlined, audience-friendly, “Hamlet” kicks off the free Bryant Park Shakespeare season.
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“Under My Skin,” a body-swapping comedy at the Little Shubert Theater, may bring on flashbacks from your cinematic past, circa the Reagan administration.
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