Monday, August 18, 2014
Friday, July 25, 2014
A production at the Westport Country Playhouse of “Nora,” the 1981 adaptation by Ingmar Bergman of “A Doll’s House” by Henrik Ibsen, has a modern look and an inspired ending.
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Sunday, July 20, 2014
“The Snow Queen: A New Musical,” based on the same fairy tale as the movie “Frozen,” has kooky characters, scary plotting and potent rock numbers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11PM“Picture Ourselves in Latvia” is a comedy set in a British psychiatric hospital where everyone is needy and selfish.
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“ValueVille,” with the New York Musical Theater Festival, tells of employees suffering through their work at a chain store.
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“Sex and Education” is making its New York premiere as part of Penguin Repertory Theater’s 37th season in Stony Point.
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Oliver, a 65-pound mutt, plays Crab, who has a scene in “The Two Gentlemen of Verona,” in Pinkney Park, Rowayton.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:21PMKaren Akers both stands out from and blends in with an ensemble cast in “Sing for Your Shakespeare,” a high-concept musical revue.
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“Luv,” Murray Schisgal’s three-character play about unhappiness set in 1964, the same year it opened on Broadway, provides physical and cultural comedy at the Schoolhouse Theater in Cr…
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You could call John Cariani an absurdist, but his work so far is distinguished equally by another factor: shortness. “Love/Sick,” his latest, is being staged now through June 22 at Theat…
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In “The Last Five Years,” an intimate musical now at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, one career soars, one fails to take off and a marriage sours.
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“Family Reunion” in Briarcliff Manor is an evening of two British one-acts — “A Kind of Alaska” by Harold Pinter and “A Number” by Caryl Churchill.
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“The House That Will Not Stand” at Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven serves as something of a lesson in the custom of plaçage, in which black, American Indian or Creole women were “…
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“The Bardy Brunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady” combines two television series from the 1970s and infuses them with Shakespearean plots.
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Point by point, the horrible, heartbreaking truth of the life of the protagonist becomes clear in Sharr White’s high-pitched drama “The Other Place.”
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“The Seafarer” is working-class-lyrical drama by Conor McPherson about a group of Irishmen who play a card game with an uninvited guest.
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Mr. Leigh had been a writer of incidental music for Broadway comedies when he was given the break of a lifetime, going on to win a Tony Award for “La Mancha,” though he never had another…
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In “4000 Miles,” the playwright Amy Herzog drew from her life to create Vera, a character that is not a typical 91-year-old.
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Based on the book, “Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man,” at 777 Theater, invites audience participation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:08PMAlexandra Silber discusses her role as a soldier’s wife in the musical “Arlington,” and why she stopped singing for years.
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Two dissimilar founders of the N.A.A.C.P. collaborate in “Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington,” from Woodie King Jr.’s New Federal Theater.
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In “Freud’s Last Session,” a meeting in London between the psychoanalyst and the author C. S. Lewis turns personal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMWendy Yondorf’s play is a good-natured comedy that pokes fun at several prestigious American institutions of higher learning as well as New Jersey in general.
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“East Towards Home,” a Billy Yalowitz play, features a Jewish New Yorker’s 20th-century mix of storytelling, memories and Woody Guthrie songs.
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The venerable Carol Lawrence returns to the stage in “Handle With Care,” a romantic comedy about an inept package deliverer who loses the body of an Israeli grandmother on a snowy Christ…
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“Christmas on the Rocks” imagines older versions of Ralphie, Charlie Brown and other characters from holiday classics.
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Ms. Parker, an elegant, ladylike film actress, had her most recognizable role as the Baroness who loves Christopher Plummer’s character in “The Sound of Music.”
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“Accidental Death of an Anarchist,” by Dario Fo, is based on a real event, a suspicious fall from the window of a Milan police station.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMPhylicia Rashad, who played Clair Huxtable in “The Cosby Show,” said she liked being a director because she can “hold a vision and galvanize all of the creative energies involved.”&n…
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Patrick Barlow’s adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” has fashioned a recognizable Scrooge, a poisoned man who seems sadly right at home in 2013.
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