Tuesday, June 18, 2013
In Sara Farrington’s “Requiem for Black Marie,” it’s Bertolt Brecht’s women who do all the heavy lifting of authorship.
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Tuesday, May 14, 2013
A man and a woman find friendship at a nursing home in Ireland in the play “These Halcyon Days,” at the Irish Arts Center.
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“How Sweet It Is,” an ode to the healing powers of musical theater, centers on a washed-up, alcoholic Broadway producer and a Mafia don to whom he owes money.
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A grieving mother, whose son has died in Iraq, turns to flag burning and spray painting in “Sleeping Rough,” by Kara Manning.
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“Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto,” a one-woman show written and performed by Anna Khaja at the Culture Project, explores the assassinated prime minister of Pakistan.
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
“Working on a Special Day,” about the friendship between a homemaker and her neighbor in 1938 Rome, is a stage adaptation of a 1977 film.
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A Russian-language adaptation of Tolstoy’s “Family Happiness,” with layers serious and silly, is playing at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
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Sunday, December 9, 2012
The troupe Circus Oz, from Melbourne, Australia, blends comedy, music, acrobatics, trapeze and spectacle at the New Victory Theater.
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“My Name Is Asher Lev,” adapted from Chaim Potok’s novel, centers on a young man dealing with traditional Hasidic expectations and the outside pull he feels as an artist.
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Dave Malloy’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812,” an electro-pop opera, is based on part of “War and Peace.”
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“The Why Overhead,” by Adam Szymkowicz, depicts the consequences of workplace tedium in comic, even musical, terms.
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Sunday, August 5, 2012
The solo show “Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte” is missing the one thing it needs: a sense of the genius of Charlotte Brontë.
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“A Letter to Harvey Milk,” part of the New York Musical Theater Festival, is a sentimental look at Jewishness and gayness.
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“Love Goes to Press,” a romantic comedy about two female war correspondents, is at the Mint Theater Company.
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A quest for men who cry easily in “We Play for the Gods,” from the Women’s Theater Project, at the Cherry Lane Theater.
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The National Theater of the United States of America brings “The Golden Veil,” a celebration of ideas about stories, to the stage at the Kitchen.
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Mayank Keshaviah’s new play, “Rangoon,” looks at an Indian immigrant father and his American-born children in the modern-day South.
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The Epic Theater Ensemble’s “Macbeth” has energy and the occasional lovely moment, even as it remains interpretively ragged.
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“The Book of Everything,” which stars an adult as a 9-year-old, pits imagination and art against repression and joylessness.
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“Pinocchio’s Ashes,” the Danish playwright Jokum Rohde’s dark satire, is receiving its American premiere at Theater for the New City.
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“Deep Are the Roots,” a 1945 play about the return of a decorated black soldier from World War II to his hometown in the South, is being revived at the Metropolitan Playhouse.
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“The Adventures of Tom Sawyer” at the New Victory Theater, adapted by Laura Eason, is a decent account of Mark Twain’s novel.
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In its revival of the 1912 “Rutherford & Son,” the Mint Theater charts the difficult family dynamics in the household of an industrial mogul.
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“Samuel & Alasdair” is the story of a robot holocaust in 1959 and four intrepid Russians in the 21st century who broadcast bits of American culture to keep it alive.
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An elemental wildness runs through “Wuthering Heights, Restless Souls,” Theater Artemis’s spare but impressively theatrical adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel.
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“El Pasado Es un Animal Grotesco” (“The Past Is a Grotesque Animal”) by the Argentine writer Mariano Pensotti delves into the fictions of our pasts.
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