Tuesday, August 11, 2020
A Seeing Place Theater production and a Play-PerView reunion reading by the 2007 Cherry Lane Theater cast bring out different aspects of Amiri Baraka’s famous play.
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Friday, July 17, 2020
Electric performances, led by André Holland, transcend didacticism in an audio rendition that replaced a Shakespeare in the Park production.
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Efforts like ‘The Oedipus Project’ are worthy, but in an attempt to draw contemporary parallels, they can misread drama and mislead about the present.
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Animated shows are finally moving away from letting white actors play characters of color. But even well-intentioned efforts at increasing diversity create complications.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMOur critics discuss the last four months, which thanks to Zoom (and Meryl Streep) have been full of experimentation and playfulness.
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Anchored by a charismatically off-kilter performance, this one-woman show asks viewers to judge a young Russian accused of a crime of passion.
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From the documentary works of Anna Deavere Smith to brief monologues written in this moment of unrest, dramatists are sounding an alarm.
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Despite charming performances, a Culture Project production works too hard bringing a delicate novella to the stage.
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A solo stage adaptation of Paul Muldoon’s poem considers whether making art can offer solace in the wake of grief.
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The neighborhood is referrred to constantly, insistently, but doesn’t come to life in Pearl Cleage’s play about a nightclub singer from the 1930s.
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Donnetta Lavinia Grays is winningly uninhibited in her fable-like solo show about a community seduced by a mysterious benefactor.
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Edward Einhorn’s playful play takes on a lot: his scientist grandfather, his aging mother and his own doubts about putting their lives onstage.
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Eric Tucker updates the allegorical play about the Salem witch trials, directly implicating the audience in its examination of mass hysteria.
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An immersive play crossed with an art installation offers sharp angles on race and white supremacy, but is dampened by didactism.
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Tawni O’Dell set herself a bracing challenge: Writing and reliving her family’s trauma onstage. But it’s more than the novelist can pull off.
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Friends and family about to be left behind when a young man goes to college reckon with a world of narrow choices in Chad Beckim’s play.
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Mr. Sunshine is one of the rare Westerners to become a master of the centuries-old Japanese comic storytelling form.
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A barbed comedy takes a grim turn when friends find themselves tested over how far they’ll go to defend their choices and protect their children.
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Chisa Hutchinson’s earnest morality play spends time with a Newark schoolboy and the brusque cafeteria worker he befriends.
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In this stage memoir, Chesney Show struggles to balance a powerful personal story with historical heft.
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This “Lysistrata” update at the Flea Theater is consistently lively, but its comic aims are scattershot.
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This retelling of the ancient Greek queen’s plight, set in the modern Midwest, is hilarious until it takes a grisly turn.
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The show features jazz, blues and country music from Allan Harris, who also plays the title character.
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The National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene show is at once a rapid-fire revue and a textbook chronology of Jewish history in New York.
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