The Pearl Theater Company’s sure-footed production of “A Moon for the Misbegotten,” a rustic comedy that slides into anguish, is at City Center Stage II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMThe actor tackles old-time politics in Broadway’s “The Best Man” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create the…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:15AM“Lucky Duck,” a reboot of “The Ugly Duckling” billed for 4-to-8-year-olds, features babes in the dark woods of show business.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMIn Simon Van Booy’s “Hindsight,” a chance encounter between two women develops into a revealing exchange.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PMEthan Lipton, a singer and songwriter, has written a musical ode to unemployment called “No Place to Go,” which opens at Joe’s Pub on Wednesday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMNina Raine’s new play inventively stages the deaf experience — Even when the words in Tribes are delivered via newly empowered hands or innovatively placed surtitles, they have t…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:56PMIn “Rx,” the actress finds the softer side of her comic chops The Playbill for Rx, now being produced by Primary Stages, casts Marylouise Burke in a familiar light: She’s l…
SOURCE: TDF at 03:46PMThe Prospect Theater Company’s revamped version of Adam Guettel’s “Myths and Hymns” has the potential to convince theaters everywhere that the piece is viable as a stage property.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMThe theater company Van Cougar mashes up staged snippets of Hollywood war movies with testimonials from real-life veterans in “Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din.”
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SOURCE: TDF at 01:03PMMourning affects a family in strange ways in “The Fall to Earth,” a drama at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PMPart of the Under the Radar festival, “Chimera,” created by Suli Holum and Deborah Stein, considers a character who carries more than one set of chromosomes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:52PMMatthew Dellapina plays a Yankee adrift in China Theatre is full of men and women mystified, rattled, and even paralyzed by alien surroundings. From Agamemnon to Blanche DuBois, from Nick an…
SOURCE: TDF at 12:20PMThe Tony-winning actor plays a spy in “Blood and Gifts” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about how actors create their roles The first time we meet…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:21PMCritics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PM“Shlemiel the First,” a musical drawn from the work of Isaac Bashevis Singer that played in New York briefly in 1994, is being revived at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PMCirque Shanghai’s “Bai Xi,” at the New Victory Theater, includes plenty of moves that children shouldn’t do at home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:50PMMarin Ireland dives into a weird and pretty world When in doubt, Marin Ireland sends her mother the script. That’s always important in determining whether Mama Ireland will be comforta…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:07AMSean McNall, a former Hamlet for the Pearl Theater Company, steps into the shoes of Shakespeare’s king in this production from the same company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02AMQui Nguyen’s play “She Kills Monsters” centers on a woman’s discovery of her dead sister’s role-playing game.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PMThickets of George Orwell’s robust prose fill the stage in Ryan Kiggell’s adaptation of “Burmese Days.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMIn the Phantom Limb production “69°S.,” at the BAM Harvey Theater, Ernest Shackleton and five of his shipwrecked crew members are portrayed by marionettes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:28PMThe actress tackles Goneril’s villainy in “King Lear” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their roles — I…
SOURCE: TDF at 11:47AMDesigner Anita Yavich gets metaphysical for Broadway’s “Venus in Fur” Bags of tricks don’t get much deeper or kinkier than the one Vanda carries into her audition/ambush/apoth…
SOURCE: TDF at 01:50PM“A Felony in Blue, or Death by Poker,” by Daniel Gallant at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe, focuses on five mob bosses and a suspicious dealer who hold a territory-carving card game.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:19PMA hot young director focuses on new work “It’s just some dream projects of mine that happened to find their way into the calendar in a strange way.” Sam Gold is describing …
SOURCE: TDF at 01:11PM“Nightlands” is a memory play set amid the uneasy racial tensions of Philadelphia in the early 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMThe New York Musical Theater Festival has attracted some bigger names than usual, with mixed results.
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