Tuesday, January 10, 2012
“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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“How Much Is Enough? Our Values in Question,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, is fueled by audience participation.
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Tuesday, October 18, 2011
“Intríngulis,” Carlo Albán’s one-man show at Intar Theater, is a modern immigration story told by someone who was in the country illegally and a cast member of “Sesame Street.”
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In “Lucia’s Chapters of Coming Forth by Day” at Mabou Mines as part of the 1st Irish Theater Festival, Joyce’s daughter sends herself off to the next world with a steady stream of ta…
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Monday, August 29, 2011
The Korean musical “Hero” tells the story of An Chung-gun, a Korean patriot, in broad song-and-dance strokes.
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The reorganized Classical Theater of Harlem is back onstage with a “Henry V,” in a production of limited means.
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The musical revue “It Ain’t Nothin’ but the Blues,” a New Haarlem Arts Theater production at City College’s Aaron Davis Hall, makes the music — more than 30 songs — its top pri…
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“The Devil’s Music” is a biographical musical about the life, loves and career of the blues singer Bessie Smith.
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In Jason Grote’s “Civilization (All You Can Eat)” at Here, a group of interconnected characters tackle some big questions of modern culture.
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I. D. Berkovitch’s “Under the Cross” tells the story of a man who regrets his conversion to Christianity from Judaism.
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The would-be terrorists in Zack Russell’s satiric comedy “Just Cause” are actually middle-class Brooklynites in their 20s, with no cause, no ideology and no jobs.
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“The Shaughraun,” Dion Boucicault’s 19th-century mix of comedy and melodrama, is being given a lively, loving production at the Irish Repertory Theater.
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Sunday, April 3, 2011
“Tomorrow Morning,” a musical by Laurence Mark Wythe, follows two Los Angeles couples on an eventful night before an important morning.
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An explicit opening scene in “Sex on Sunday” promises a trip to the dark side of sexuality. But Chisa Hutchinson, the writer, can’t decide whether she wants to titillate or educate.
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New York Classical Theater turns a Lower Manhattan commercial space into a makeshift theater to stage Aphra Behn’s 17th-centuray comedy about sexual politics.
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In “Heaven on Earth” Charles L. Mee and some collaborators adapt the techniques of collage for the stage.
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Tuesday, February 8, 2011
What ails the young urbanites of “The Momentum,” at the Laurie Beechman Theater, are unmet expectations, romantic disappointments and a lingering sense of ill-being.
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Wednesday, December 8, 2010
In George Hunka’s “What She Knew” at Manhattan Theater Source, Jocasta holds forth about blood, pestilence and sex.
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The stage version of Harriet Beecher Stowe’s “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” gets a fresh look from the Metropolitan Playhouse in a production that values the text.
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