Saturday, December 17, 2011
Neil Bartlett has adapted “A Christmas Carol” for the stage using only Dickens’s original text; the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey performs it through Jan. 1 at Drew University.
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“Irving Berlin’s White Christmas,” based on the 1954 movie musical and featuring Lorna Luft in a supporting role, runs at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., through Dec. 24.
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Brian Dennehy is back at the Long Wharf Theater in a one-act play, “Krapp’s Last Tape,” by Samuel Beckett.
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Mr. Pockriss, who wrote the music for midcentury pop hits like “Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini,” also worked in musical theater for decades.
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Madeleine George’s clever new play, now having its world premiere at Two River Theater Company, opens a window onto what one character in the play likes to call “alternative kinship stru…
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“Phaedra Backwards,” in its world premiere, is Marina Carr’s reworking of the Minotaur legend, starting from the end.
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Sunday, October 9, 2011
In the Irish Repertory Theater production of “Molly Sweeney,” the cast of three is focused on surgery that could help a blind woman see.
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The playwright Sarah Ruhl used a fresh, “literal” translation of Anton Chekhov’s 110-year-old drama “Three Sisters,” now at the University Theater at Yale.
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A boy who had a rough start in life captures the attention of a social worker he meets by chance in “Seed,” a play by Radha Blank at the National Black Theater.
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A production of Shakespeare’s romantic comedy “Much Ado About Nothing” gets the 20th-century treatment at the Two River Theater in Red Bank, N.J.
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Not every director of “Othello” has the courage to bring the humor front and center. Bonnie J. Monte dares to do so in the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey’s new production.
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In “A Night With George,” about an Irishwoman’s “connection” to George Clooney, the title character never appears.
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Tennessee Williams’s “Suddenly Last Summer,” at the Westport Country Playhouse, has familiar components, including an eccentric Southern woman and intimations of homosexuality.
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All three characters in “The Understudy,” being performed at TheaterWorks in Hartford, have taken jobs they normally wouldn’t.
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"Paper Cut" is one of those artfully quirky solo performances that make the New York International Fringe Festival worth checking out.
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Jeffrey Sweet's solo show is like a series of entertaining, compelling, sometimes rambling excerpts from a long talk-show interview.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PM"Chasing Heaven" stops short of burning insight, but it is funny, thoughtful, brightly acted and about as timely as a play can get.
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Series B of the Throughline Artists’ Summer Shorts 5 festival of new American plays is a New York affair.
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The production of Dario Fo’s “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey is at Drew University through Aug. 28.
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“The Pretty Trap,” a slight but intriguing one-act precursor to Tennessee Williams’s “Glass Menagerie,” is being given its New York premiere by Cause Célèbre at the Acorn Theater.
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Mark Lamos directs the Westport Country Playhouse’s production of “Lips Together, Teeth Apart,” Terrence McNally’s 1991 play about two straight couples visiting a beach house on Fire…
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“The Judy Holliday Story,” at New Jersey Repertory, is even and tasteful, but that may not have been the best way to go.
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Howard Barker’s 1983 play “Victory: Choices in Reaction,” having its American premiere at the Atlantic Theater’s Stage 2, features Jan Maxwell in a tour de force performance.
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Shakespeare’s little-known “Timon of Athens” is at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater at Drew University through July 24.
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“I Wish You Love” considers Nat King Cole’s image, the man beyond it and his place as a black entertainer in the racially charged America of the 1950s and ’60s.
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“The Greenwich Village Follies,” at Manhattan Theater Source, is a historical tour of the Village, with singing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:51PMThe Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s sole non-Elizabethan offering this summer is a Jules Verne adaptation shot through with silliness.
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