Saturday, October 27, 2012
In “Venus in Fur,” by David Ives, a seemingly idiotic actress arrives late to an audition and ends up turning the tables on an arrogant theater director.
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“One Slight Hitch,” a play by the comedian Lewis Black, is having its New Jersey premiere at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40PMPhylicia Rashad and the cast she directs have superlative material to work with, but they find new richness in the relationships and individual hearts of the Younger family in “A Raisin in…
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Saturday, October 13, 2012
“Satchmo at the Waldorf,” based on a biography of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout, opened in New Haven on Oct. 3.
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Wendy MacLeod’s sensitive comic drama “The Water Children” has been updated and includes references to the likes of John Boehner and Rick Santorum.
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“American Night: The Ballad of Juan José,” at the Yale Repertory Theater, isn’t exactly a play or musical; it feels like an absurdist history pageant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:45PM“Vita and Virginia,” a play about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West that is adapted from two decades of their correspondence, is at Luna Stage in West Orang…
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Suzan-Lori Parks directed “Topdog/Underdog,” her Pulitzer Prize play, in the shining first production of the 2012-13 season of the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank.
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“Sounding Beckett,” directed by Joy Zinoman, features three Samuel Beckett plays written rather late in his life.
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“Harbor,” at the Westport Country Playhouse, starts as a horror story of houseguests who swear they are staying only one night but refuse to leave, then the tale takes surprising turns.
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Keith Lee Grant directs an intimate chamber version of “Dreamgirls,” Michael Bennett’s 1981 R&B musical about the rise of a 1960s girl group.
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The message of “Cougar the Musical” is that relationships between older women and younger men are a great idea.
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Thursday, August 23, 2012
Written by Ido Bernstein, the show explores the culture of aggressive masculinity in contemporary Israel.
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Tuesday, August 21, 2012
Monday, August 20, 2012
A Shakespeare work that has been performed only twice on Broadway is at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater at Drew University in Madison, N.J.
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“The 39 Steps,” at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, N.Y., is a perfect example of the company’s fabulous sense of play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:29PMKaroline Leach’s “Tryst,” playing at TheaterWorks Hartford, City Arts on Pearl, is a story of a con man and a spinster that delivers psychological twists and turns.
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“Tiny Bubbles,” at the Medicine Show Theater, follows a gay man whose roommate has decided to give up drinking.
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In “Tartuffe,” a comedy by Molière being staged at the Westport Country Playhouse, a family struggles to free its patriarch from his thrall to a religious charlatan.
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The musical "Central Avenue Breakdown" follows a family of jazz musicians and their move to Los Angeles in 1943.
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Tuesday, July 17, 2012
The comedy “Hell: Paradise Found” at 59E59 Theaters, written and directed by Seth Panitch, makes the argument for why it’s better to end up in hell than in heaven.
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Ms. Holm was 25 in 1943 when she was cast as Ado Annie in “Oklahoma!,” and in 1947 her performance in “Gentleman’s Agreement” garnered her the Oscar for best supporting actress.
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Shakespeare’s “The Comedy of Errors” is performed outdoors at the Greek Theater at the College of Saint Elizabeth in Morris Township, through July 29.
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In the New York Classical Theater’s “panoramic” production of “Twelfth Night,” the cast moves to a new spot for nearly every scene, and the audience follows.
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In Neil Simon’s comedy “The Odd Couple,” Felix is as morose and finicky as Oscar is cheerful and easygoing; when he moves in, he turns Oscar’s relaxed home into a bastion of neatness.
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“The Ahh Factor,” by Bruce Graham, and works by A. R Gurney and Neil LaBute highlight six plays about dealing with disabilities in “More of Our Parts,” at the Clurman Theater.
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