Wednesday, October 1, 2014
David Holthouse’s play, “Stalking the Bogeyman,†is based on his rape as a 7-year-old and his mission as an adult to find and kill his attacker.
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Friday, September 19, 2014
“Illusions,†at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, examines the marriages and the friendship of two couples.
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“The Fatal Weakness,†which ran on Broadway in 1946 and is being restaged at the Mint Theater, is a domestic comedy with a twist.
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Friday, August 15, 2014
“The Alchemist†at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison is a production that is better than the play.
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The World’s Fair Play Festival at the Queens Theater features short works inspired by the 1964 and 1939 World’s Fairs.
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The show uses material by the country songwriter JT Harding, who has written hits for Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker, among others.
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The play “Between Riverside and Crazy†will give audiences a very good look at an actor they know well from secondary roles, Stephen McKinley Henderson.
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“Blink,†written by Phil Porter, finds two characters in a story of love in the age of indirect, device-assisted communication.
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HBO’s version of Larry Kramer’s play “The Normal Heart†has shortcomings, but it benefits from what film can do for a story written for the stage.
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Kate Benson’s “A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes†is a spectacularly inventive take on the drama of a family holiday dinner.
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Monday, April 28, 2014
The new version of the interactive play “Tony n’ Tina’s Wedding†is self-consciously updated, but strains for laughs.
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In Beau Willimon’s play “Breathing Time,†at Teatro Iati, some 21st-century trauma impinges on an ordinary workday.
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Thursday, February 20, 2014
The director Stephanie Riggs follows the tribulations of three actors who are on call to step in for a star in a stage show.
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The Pig Iron Theater Company outfits its interpretation of “Twelfth Night†in outrageousness, with colorful costumes, loud characters and a Balkan band.
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“The Faire,†Crystal Finn’s new play at the Fourth Street Theater, follows the behind-the-scenes lives of five performers in a bedraggled Renaissance fair somewhere in Nor…
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“Take Me Home,†an immersive theater piece, treats audiences of three to a unique ride in a New York cab.
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“Craving for Travel,†at the Peter J. Sharp Theater, is a comedy about two rival travel agents dealing with dozens of difficult clients.
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Isabella Rossellini talks about the sex lives found in the natural world in “Green Porno,†at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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From the Off Broadway musical “Fun Home†to the star-crossed “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,†Times writers offer a few last-minute theater picks. &n…
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A musical stage version of “A Christmas Story,†the Jean Shepherd holiday classic, looks as if it will settle in as a seasonal perennial.
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In “Struck,†at Here Arts Center, Tannis Kowalchuk tries to convey the experience of her stroke and recovery.
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“Around the World,†a streamlined concert reading of Orson Welles and Cole Porter’s musical adaptation of the Jules Verne tale, is at the Mint Theater. &n…
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Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
