“The Drawer Boy” by Michael Healey looks in on the lives of two aging friends who share a farmhouse in the Canadian countryside, and a stranger who comes to live with them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMThe Mint Theater Company performs “Katie Roche,” the third play by Teresa Deevy it has revived in recent years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMJack Klugman and Charles Durning, who both died on Monday, were shining examples of actors who made everyday characters believable.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PMMarc Kudisch and Jeffry Denman blend Hanukkah and Christmas in their musical stage show at the York Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:20PMThe musical “Elf” is back on Broadway for a two-month run after first materializing there in 2010.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “The Understudy” a young Off Broadway actress commits an accidental sort of homicide that keeps putting her onstage in the star’s place.
SOURCE: movies.nytimes.com at 08:49AMTerry Teachout, a drama critic, has switched hats and written a one-man show called “Satchmo at the Waldorf,” now at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMThe three-part documentary “Broadway or Bust” follows 60 high school students competing in a show business contest.
SOURCE: tv.nytimes.com at 11:20AM“Mike Tyson: Undisputed Truth” has the former heavyweight boxing champion telling stories of his life in this one-man show at the Longacre Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe DreamWorks stage spectacle “How to Train Your Dragon” is on tour in the United States, with some dragons weighing at least 1.6 tons.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:41AM“Smash,” NBC’s series about backstage Broadway comes with New York and Hollywood names off screen (Steven Spielberg, Therese Rebeck) and on (Debra Messing and Brian d’Arcy James).
SOURCE: tv.nytimes.com at 05:56PMMr. Gazzara’s long acting career included playing Brick in the original “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:27PMRoslyn Hart plays a sex therapist in “Never Sleep Alone,” a show at Joe’s Pub, and she is getting people together.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PM“The Complete World of Sports (abridged),” a stage show at the New Victory Theater, is pitched directly, and proudly, at the juvenile in sports fans of all ages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PMJonathan Bank is directing the Mint Theater Company’s revival of “Temporal Powers,” a 1930s morality play by Teresa Deevy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMThis sprawling tale of madness, based on a 1956 novel by Yukio Mishima, never really earns the crazy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMOtherworldly singing is the premise of “Voca People,” at the Westside Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PM“Henry V,” which is being staged outdoors by New York Classical Theater, is part theater, part audience workout.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMNeil LaBute joins six other authors in an evening of short plays on a theme of disabilities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09PMIt’s outdoor theater season in New York, and playgrounds, parks and sidewalks across the city have been transformed into makeshift stages.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:55PMYou’d think that with all the money theatrical producers lose, they’d be pretty good at crying. But the other night, Ken Davenport, who is such a producer, could not shed even one tear o…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:28AMDaniel Beaty’s musical “Tearing Down the Walls” waxes nostaligic for Harlem and a Cro-Magnon view of the female of the species.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PMThe Actors Theater Company revives “Three Men on a Horse,” the Depression-era comedy by John Cecil Holm and George Abbott.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PMMike Birbiglia’s latest monologue starts with a traumatic event — in this case, a car accident — and wraps it in nutty anecdotes and meandering detours but somehow never loses the audi…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMWith a batch of ridiculous-sounding shows about to hit the air, we dare you to tell the real ones from a bunch we made up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMB. H. Barry directs “Treasure Island” at the Irondale Center in Fort Greene, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:55PMThe circus is in town (if your town is East Rutherford, N.J., or Uniondale, N.Y.), and it has brought a pizazzy show called “Fully Charged,” complete with human cannonball.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:53PM“La Barbería” at New World Stages features impressive comic timing amid its music and messages about community and assimilation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PM“The Road to Qatar!” at the Theater at St. Peter’s is based on the real-life story of two writers who were commissioned to produce a musical in the Middle East.
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