Wednesday, November 30, 2016
The comic and writer Monica Piper tells stories about her life and her casual relationship with her religion in a one-woman show at New World Stages.
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In “A Taste of Things to Come,” a breezy musical at York Theater Company, four friends navigate the 1950s, the 1960s and the inevitability of change.
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Thursday, October 6, 2016
Jonathan Rockefeller’s puppet play at DR2, ‘That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody,’ features the familiar sitcom characters, doing what they always did.
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The overall portrait in this 1953 play by N.C. Hunter is of an economically comfortable English family in coastal Dorset in the anxious postwar years.
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Inspired by the career of a former F.B.I. agent who infiltrated white supremacist groups, the film may get moviegoers’ blood boiling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:35PM“History of the World, Part I” is one of seven Brooks movies being served with food and drinks at the theater-restaurant Syndicated.
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Friday, July 22, 2016
Outdoors at Marcus Garvey Park, a Shakespeare classic plays out in a free production that’s enhanced by its urban surroundings.
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Sunday, June 19, 2016
Monday, June 13, 2016
Thursday, June 9, 2016
In a ratty Texas liquor store, several people show up, along with that small-town specter, the rift between those who leave and grow and those who don’t.
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There are positive and negative aspects to this York Theater Company production’s casting of young children instead of adults.
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A stage actor struggling with the demons of old age is propped up by his personal assistant in this period piece, set during World War II.
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This HBO film, directed by Jay Roach and covering Johnson’s first year in office, is based on Robert Schenkkan’s Tony Award-winning play from 2014.
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The play, by Sevan K. Greene and directed by Kareem Fahmy, is inspired by a memoir written by Mr. Fahmy’s grandmother.
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Dena Blizzard’s solo show about the travails of motherhood offers an evening of easy laughs but little insight.
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If David Carl as Gary Busey as Hamlet is not exponential enough, the New York Shakespeare Exchange is offering “Hamlet” to the 10th power.
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A play that may have been at least partly written by Shakespeare is mounted by the Letter of Marque Theater Company.
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Thursday, February 18, 2016
The veteran stage clowns Bill Irwin and David Shiner bring back their sketches to the Pershing Square Signature Center.
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Mr. Birbiglia’s one-man show is an indescribably ridiculous collection of anecdotes and asides that miraculously blend into a whole.
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Mr. Orloff, in this play, seeks to humanize members of a group dismissed by his friends and characterized as loudmouth reactionaries.
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Monday, February 1, 2016
With its bar-raising razzle-dazzle, “Grease: Live!” propels the trend of musicals-on-television toward a new art form: not theater; more like the movie, but performed live.
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Each night the Drunk Shakespeare Society gathers with audience members on a library-like set, whereupon one actor downs alcohol, and the play commences.
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Toshiki Okada’s play at Japan Society uses an allegory to dissect the relationship among these three countries.
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Sunday, January 10, 2016
Mr. Wellman’s play at the Connelly Theater uses Hitler’s dog, among other tools, to criticize international relations today.
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