Friday, September 20, 2024
Revivals of a Michael John LaChiusa musical and an early work by the “Past Lives” filmmaker toy with and challenge audience expectations.
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In “Someone Spectacular,” Domenica Feraud skewers group therapy and the futility of sharing trauma in a fishbowl.
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Julia May Jonas turns the menacing male siblings of Sam Shepard’s “True West” into squabbling pregnant sisters in Vermont.
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Despite a juicy premise, this Colt Coeur production, starring Tim Daly and Jayne Atkinson, never manages to take off.
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Kate Taney Billingsley’s play starts with a fictional apology, but then segregated choirs and a racist waitress create tonal dissonance.
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Side effects may vary: in Lucy Prebble’s play, love and romance go head-to-head with an experimental antidepressant.
Paapa Essiedu as Tristan and Taylor Russell as Connie in The Effect. C…
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“Shutter Sisters” at 1st Stage tells the story of two women whose lives intertwine in obvious ways.
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Themes of incest and sexual abuse of minors loom large in this strikingly becalmed play named after a legendarily vengeful Greek mother.
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Conflicting ideas of guilt, identity and genetics do battle in this quietly galvanizing play by Ruby Thomas.
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Deepali Gupta offers a meandering and muddled take on the trial of Rajat Gupta, a former head of McKinsey & Company.
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The brunch must go on: the final musical by Stephen Sondheim sends up a group of trapped plutocrats à la Buñuel.
Cast of Here We Are. Photo: Emilio Madrid.
Here We Are, by Stephen Sondhe…
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Monday, September 25, 2023
Emma Horwitz makes her Off Broadway debut with an adventurous retelling of a devotional play from the 10th century.
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Wednesday, August 30, 2023
Despite its thunderbolt of a title, the focus of this memory play is on the relationship between a self-involved author and his long-suffering agent.
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The gravitational pull of the hurts of yesteryear is on vivid display in Deirdre Kinahan’s drama at Irish Repertory Theater.
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The New York Classical Theater adaptation, playing in New York’s city parks, feints toward novelty but offers little in the way of originality.
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In this “Pride and Prejudice” spinoff from Original Theatre, Jane Austen’s infamous knave attempts to set the record straight.
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In her new play, Lauren Gunderson explores the legacy of the 18th-century French mathematician and philosophe Emilie du Châtelet.
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These actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months.
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