Thursday, January 30, 2014
Wendy 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.
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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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“Lies My Father Told Me,” a musical adapted from a film of the same name, is a coming-of-age story of a Jewish boy in Montreal.
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In “Every Day a Visitor,” the residents of a retirement home decide to play an all-encompassing game, and in certain ways, it saves their lives.
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Keith Josef Adkins’s “The Last Saint on Sugar Hill” is having its New York premiere at the National Black Theater in Harlem.
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Friday, November 1, 2013
“The Underpants,” by Steve Martin, adapted from Carl Sternheim, explores gender politics in 1910 Düsseldorf.
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Starring as Eugene O’Neill in “And Give Us the Shadows” at the Schoolhouse Theater, Jerry Lanning collapsed in the middle of performing.
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“Jericho,” Jack Canfora’s examination of a family after Sept. 11, explores the nature of grief, cultural identity and fraught relationships.
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In “Kansas City Swing,” by Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan, Satchel Paige, the legendary Negro Leagues pitcher, sees his star being eclipsed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PM“Room Service,” now at the Westport Country Playhouse, is more subtle on the stage than in the Marx Brothers film.
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“Tamar of the River,” a musical by Marisa Michelson and Joshua H. Cohen, uses characters from a story in Genesis to send a message about peace.
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In this “Waiting for Godot,” translated into Yiddish, Vladimir and Estragon represent Holocaust survivors.
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“The Farm,” a darkly serious one-act play now at the Penguin Repertory Theater, pits a C.I.A. agent against an agency therapist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:23PMIn “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Yale Repertory Theater, secondary characters stand out in a play normally dominated by the two central players.
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Friday, September 13, 2013
In “The Beautiful Dark,” Erik Gernand has created complicated, recognizable people who are, like most of us, victims of their own flaws.
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The National Asian American Theater production of Clifford Odets’s “Awake and Sing!” easily make its point that human realities trump ethnicity.
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In “Oblivion,” Carly Mensch, a writer known for her work on cable television, asks her audience to consider bigotry from a different perspective.
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In “Still Jewish After All These Years,” at Stage 72, Avi Hoffman offers songs and life lessons from decades in the Yiddish theater.
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Dave Hanson’s play is about two understudies waiting for their chance to go on in Samuel Beckett’s famed “Waiting for Godot.”
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Thursday, August 15, 2013
Jacques Deval’s 1933 play about displaced Russian nobility is a European screwball comedy, but it also is much more.
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