Monday, November 12, 2018
For its current shows, the West Village’s Rattlestick Playwrights Theater has radically redesigned its auditorium and ditched half the seats. Its artistic
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This new musical version of King Kong, roaring its way onto Broadway, features some spectacular puppetry. But though the ape is great
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This new play about a fact-checking dispute at a magazine feels incredibly timely. Exploring the relationship between fact and fiction, journalism and the
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In his startling, minimalist reimagining of Oklahoma!, director Daniel Fish foregrounds the carnality and violence that has always formed part of this
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Richard Bean’s broad, and at times crude, comedy, The Nap, premiered in Sheffield, the home of UK snooker, in 2016. The play’s plot
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It would be a real thrill to see Janet McTeer do Hamlet. In Theresa Rebeck’s new play Bernhardt/Hamlet we get glimpses, though
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Sleight of hand: Vincent Gambini's magic show is an exploration of political deception.
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Writer-performer Molly Taylor unpacks the lives of the couple she grew up down the street from. A jumble of memories, objects and
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Linking together several non-linear storytelling strands, Never Vera Blue by Alexandra Wood addresses the experience of domestic abuse and violence. From subtle
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:41AMMarrying aerial movement to the process of egg donation may not be the most obvious of creative choices, but the physical risks
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Sisyphus with a shitty cell phone: Nicole Serratore reviews Eve Nicol's play about modern relationships.
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David Carl and Michole Biancosino’s Trump Lear manages to be both a fair rendering of an abridged production of Shakespeare’s Lear and
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Waves of anger: Nicole Serratore writes on Penelope Skinner's play, and the grim realities of toxic masculinity online.
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Linked From exeuntmagazine.com at 12:54PMWhat happens when a couple is in love and want to spend the rest of their lives together, but the question of
Linked From The Stage Registration at 06:15AMSexual violence in the US military is all too frequent, under-reported, and rarely prosecuted. Writer-performer Mary Jane Wells’ one-woman show Heroine recounts
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Somewhere between lecture, cabaret and stand-up, Natalie Cutler’s one-woman show Not Yet Suffragette gives a history lesson on women’s rights, battles and
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Siblings share so much – whether it’s their make-believe games, whispered stories or their own brand of rough-housing. In Annie Saunders’ and
Linked From The Stage Registration at 08:12AMAbortion in Ireland is a knotty subject. Laura Wyatt O’Keeffe’s play Vessel attempts to untangle some of that complexity. With careful, fine detail,
Linked From The Stage Registration at 05:35AMNicole Serratore reviews Ulster American, a new play 'so wild it beggars belief'.
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Writer-performer Kit Finnie explores the fascinating, tragic experiences of scandal-plagued Hollywood silent film star, Mabel Normand in Kit Finnie: Mabel and Mickey.
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Reminiscent of the storytelling of Daniel Kitson, The Egg is a Lonely Hunter by Hannah Mamalis excavates loneliness and grief with tenderness,
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Theatre is by its nature manipulative. But in Daughter, written and performed by Adam Lazarus, such manipulation is not earned. Lazarus eases
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With her perceptive study of Straight White Men, Young Jean Lee becomes the first Asian-American female playwright on Broadway. Supported by director Anna
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Making theatre about US politics is fraught. Whether he is deliberately snubbed or consciously included, shades of Trump abound in narrative injustices,
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(Photo: Joan Marcus)Mart Crowley’s 1968 landmark play about gay men in New York does not feel like a 50 year-old play. While the film (from 1970) version is camp and heavy-handed, this pro…
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Mike Lew’s Teenage Dick is a high school-set tongue-in-cheek tragicomedy that riffs on Richard III. Discontent with being class secretary, and wanting
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It’s always easy to find reasons to be grumpy about the Tony Awards. Whether it’s overcritical omissions (what do you mean there’s
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Leaving Angels in America, I tingle. I am covered in tears and exhaling joy. The time has passed quickly. None of it has felt laborious. And I carry with me the feeling of religious devotion…
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In his one-man show John Lithgow: Stories by Heart, the charming stage legend recounts tales of his youth but at the heart
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Due to job woes I was not able to get over to the UK much this year. So really...my list is a Top 10 of Edinburgh.1. Joan2. Lucy McCormick's Triple Threat3. Us/Them4. Letters to Windso…
Linked From Mildly Bitter's Musings at 07:18PMSince I did not end up going to Edinburgh this year I did not have enough shows in the UK to make a separate top 10 list. So I'm combining US and UK shows this year because it's my lis…
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