Monday, March 31, 2014
The unlikely start for Will Eno’s latest play — The road to Broadway can sometimes take unpredictable paths. For example, via an infamously sprawling Norwegian epic. With his fra…
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Actors playing gay parents-to-be also play their childlike sides in Paula Vogel’s early work “And Baby Makes Seven,” at the New Ohio Theater.
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The playwright Robert Askins talks about the Off Broadway return of his black comedy “Hand to God,” featuring a potty-mouthed sock puppet, with a more “mature” ending. &nb…
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In Ken Urban’s new play, grief creates strange spiritual terrain — “There’s not that much difference between believing in heaven and believing that making a living wo…
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“Bronx Bombers,” “Kung Fu” and “Rocky” are among the new shows looking to attract more men to their audiences.
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In The Tribute Artist, Charles Busch reunites with his muse Julie Halston — Charles Busch and Julie Halston have a lot to talk about. Whether it’s the dozen or more shows Busch h…
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What Brían F. O’Byrne, the star of Outside Mullingar, has learned from audience response to the play — Welcome to Building Character, our ongoing look at actors and how they cre…
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In “Rodney King,” Roger Guenveur Smith pays a nuanced tribute to the man whose 1991 beating by police officers proved a seminal moment in contemporary race relations. &n…
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In “Blessing the Boats: The Remix” at the Public, Will Power, Carl Hancock Rux and Mike Ladd inventively reprise Sekou Sundiata’s performance piece.
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The Coil theater festival show “An Evening With William Shatner Asterisk,” at the New Ohio Theater, makes an evening of clips of Mr. Shatner in his “Star Trek” role. …
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Sheldon Best, the star of Atlantic Theater’s “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” speaks about his niche as an athletic actor.
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True aficionados of inventive theater know exactly where they need to be every January: far Off Broadway.
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“La Divina Caricatura,” a new work from Lee Breuer, is a sprawling tale of reincarnation and interspecies love.
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Monday, November 11, 2013
How the Globe works with Bard-appropriate designs — This is Part II of our series on Shakespeare in rep. Read Part I, on mastering multiple shows at the same time The Globe TheatreR…
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How the Globe juggles Richard III and Twelfth Night in the same Broadway theatre — “Here’s where we were lucky,” Bryan Paterson says, although he’s speaking of…
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Lisa Kron is pulling double duty this fall at the Public Theater, as the writer of the musical “Fun Home” and an actor in “Good Person of Szechwan.”
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Thursday, October 3, 2013
The stage adaptation of John Grisham’s first novel, “A Time to Kill,” is opening on Broadway — two days before his sequel to that book will be released.
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Donald Margulies’s play “Model Apartment” is reintroduced, after “a very dispiriting turn of events” that went on for decades.
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Details are few and far between about Susan Pourfar’s role in Women or Nothing; the author, Ethan Coen, is famously tight-lipped about his scripts, and this latest play, which is now i…
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Thursday, August 8, 2013
From the immense lineup of shows in the New York International Fringe Festival, staff members at The Times play some hunches and make some picks to see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMSteve Cosson, Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers discuss how they keep their collaborative relationships alive.
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The musical “Let It Be” begins previews at the St. James Theater on Tuesday, despite a lawsuit by the producers of a previous Beatles tribute show seeking half its revenues. &…
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Monday, July 8, 2013
The composer’s vision for a summer of Off-Broadway musicals Putting together a three-show summer season is ambitious enough, let alone when it’s being done by a musical theatre c…
SOURCE: TDF at 02:36PMThursday, June 27, 2013
You won’t find the reality shows “Rehabilitation” and “Nobody Loves You” on the upper reaches of your dial. And it’s because playwrights snagged those titles first. &n…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AMCast members from stage shows about reality TV weigh in on the guilty pleasures that have filled their down time between jobs.
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