Monday, May 13, 2013
Friday, May 10, 2013
It is often said that A. .R. Gurney writes about a dying breed. But the characters in “The Dining Room,†the Westport Country Playhouse, are very much alive onstage. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PM“The Good Boy,†Michael Bonnabel’s solo show about his experience as a hearing son with deaf parents, is at Abingdon Theater.
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“Kunstler,†at Pace University, takes a journey through William Kunstler’s most famous cases, including those of the Chicago Seven, the Attica prison-riots inmates and the…
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“The Mountaintop,†at TheaterWorks Hartford through May 5, takes place in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on April 3, 1968, the night before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.�
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In “Abundance,†by Beth Henley at Hartford Stage, two wives discover the humor and cold horrors of the 19th-century unexplored West.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:57PMMark S. Hoebee directs the Paper Mill Playhouse’s production of “Thoroughly Modern Millie,†a play based on a 1967 film written by Richard Morris.
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John Shévin Foster’s “Plenty of Time,†at the Castillo Theater, is a journey through time via two people who meet just once a year.
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In “Futurology the Musical,†astronauts from the future travel through time to intervene when an aspiring young actress-singer is on the verge of being corrupted by a showbiz liz…
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A mistaken husband’s rage has consequences in a new production of “The Winter’s Tale,’ directed by Rebecca Taichman, at the McCarter Theater Center. &nb…
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“Rich Girl†asks a timely question for fans of Henry James’s “Washington Squareâ€: What if suspicious Victorian parents could have Googled their daughtersâ€�…
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In “The Little Flower†Anthony Lo Bianco sets out to demonstrate what made Fiorello La Guardia, who ran New York City from 1934 through 1945, so beloved.
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“The Norwegians,†C. Denby Swanson’s extremely odd and delightful comedy at the Drilling Company, is about two Scandinavian hit men in Minnesota.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:43PMThe Keen Company revives “The Old Boy,†A. R. Gurney’s 1991 tale of class-consciousness, money, loyalty and resistance to change.
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Friday, March 8, 2013
Tuesday, March 5, 2013
Music, wrestling, pratfalls: an “As You Like It†at the New Victory Theater that aims to charm adolescents.
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The early Sam Shepard play, known for its violently dark humor, is at Long Wharf Theater Stage I until March 10.
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“Two Trains Running†is one of a series of plays by August Wilson about the African-American experience in the 20th century.
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A widower vacations in London with hopes of sexual adventure but winds up finding something else among an assortment of endearing characters in “Off the King’s Road,†a pl…
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More than a play about three sex tourists, “Carnaval†reveals backgrounds and secrets, and adds serious tension at the end.
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Bryonn Bain has written and performs “Lyrics From Lockdown,†a solo show that’s the story of his unjustified 1999 arrest and detainment by the New York Police Department.
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Two actors play a plethora of characters in “Stones in His Pockets,†a comedy wrapped around a tragedy.
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Based on a true story, “Airswimming†chronicles the lives to two women institutionalized for giving birth out of wedlock in 1920s England.
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“The Future Is Not What It Was,†by Michael Rabe, playing at Walkerspace, refers to the future but is set “in a world not unlike our own, where society’s moral compa…
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Penny Fuller plays a widow left in deep debt in a musical adaptation of the play “13 Things About Ed Carpolotti.â€
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PM“Flipside†delivers 28 Patti Page hits in less than two hours from two performers with warm and lovely voices.
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“The Best of Enemies,†at the George Street Playhouse, recounts the unlikely friendship between Claiborne Paul Ellis, a Klansman, and Ann Atwater, a civil rights activist.
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Four shows that recently opened in New York — “Golden Age,†“Golden Boy,†“Golden Child†and “The Golden Land†— have similar ti…
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Alexandra Silber, Hunter Foster and Arielle Jacobs star in “Inner Voices,†an evening of three one-act solo musicals.
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