Monday, May 25, 2015
An adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" is being performed at the Westport Country Playhouse, through Oct. 30.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIf "Ella," the Long Wharf Theater's first production of the season, has a message about Ella Fitzgerald, it is that she was terribly unattractive and a horrible mother. Whether true or not, …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn Annie Baker’s Obie Award-winning play, a Vermont community-center acting class is put through theatrical exercises that reveal personal truths.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMKate Mulgrew, at 55, is slithery and age-appropriate in “Antony and Cleopatra”; the historical Egyptian queen was 39 when she met the asp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe father is Henry II of England (Sherman Howard) and the mother is Eleanor of Aquitaine (Lisa Harrow), and they are the central figures of the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey’s han…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMEdward Albee’s 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of friends-and-family angst is staged in a grand set at the Yale Repertory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Let Me Down Easy,” a play by Anna Deavere Smith, is being staged on Nov. 13 at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMA dying petty criminal and his son call for a dispirited priest to give last rites, and that’s where things come to life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe thirst for power in “State of the Union” at J City Theater in Jersey City will be familiar to Americans today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMA play based on the life of the Swedish diplomat who saved thousands of Hungarian Jews during World War II has its world premiere in White Plains.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe teenager’s-dad character in Howard Meyer’s “Welcome: This Is a Neighborhood Watch Community” has a name, Harris Campbell, but I like to think of him simply as Hed…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn “Broken Nails: A Marlene Dietrich Dialogue,” Anna Skubik plays both Dietrich, as a life-size puppet, and Dietrich’s maid.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMMr. Nielsen was a Canadian-born actor who in middle age tossed aside three decades of credibility in dramatic and romantic roles to make a new career as a comic actor.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe new London musical production of “Les Misérables” is having its American premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe last time we saw Judith Ivey on the Long Wharf stage, about a year and a half ago, she was playing one of the great Southern matriarchs, the quintessential Tennessee Williams monster-mot…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMTwo River Theater Company’s production of “Charlotte’s Web” captures the tale’s child-friendly warmth and the adult realities of death and friendship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” which won several Tonys 2005, is at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMMelissa James Gibson’s play “This” offers a tale of friendship, sex, jealousy and grief overlaid with a quiet optimism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThis production at the Yale Rep makes it clear why August Wilson’s 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama was showered with honor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMIn “Green,” by Chris Harcum, one of the last human beings in the universe is arrested for being poor and artistic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“En el Tiempo de las Mariposas,” at Repertorio Español, presents the story of the Mirabal sisters and their opposition to the Dominican dictator.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Mercy and the Firefly,” having its world premiere at Luna Stage, goes for shock value with a story about a Roman Catholic nun with a secret who returns to her hometown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Puma,” having its premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, takes a melodramatic look at the four-decade relationship between Marlene Dietrich and Erich Maria…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Divine Rivalry,” at Hartford Stage, stylishly recreates a tale of dueling murals, pitting Leonardo da Vinci against Michelangelo.
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The playwright, who is also a lawyer, delivers an informed script in this one-act drama about a crime family and a prosecutor’s efforts to make a deal.
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Sophisticated stagecraft and the contributions of artists with 21st-century sensibilities have worked their magic on some dangerous midcentury mores.
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Deb Margolin talks about cancer, motherhood and dull parties in her solo show at the Cherry Lane Theater.
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