Sunday, June 16, 2019
Julia Jarcho’s new play is a squirmy, sinister meditation on female desire, with a whiff of ancient Greece.
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Linda Gross Theater at the Atlantic Theater Company, New York
The latest from Spring Awakening’s Duncan Sheik is a lush and emotionally impactful production with a smart book from Pulitzer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMTuesday, June 11, 2019
The upfront standup took down Trump with a blistering routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner. But she won’t joke about him again
Here are some things the comedian Michelle Wol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMMonday, June 10, 2019
With most of the awards landing in predictable hands and a host who failed to add the requisite pizzazz, the annual Broadway love-in felt rather flat
The 2019 Tony awards began with James Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMMonday, June 3, 2019
In this untidy but often poignant drama, Carla Ching brings together the young and the rootless in Southern California.
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The Broadway powerhouse talks about trusting Sondheim, hearing others sing her songs and waiting to be taken seriously
Cafe Luxembourg, the closet-sized New York bistro Bernadette Peters cho…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMMonday, May 27, 2019
Assaulting the audience with its ‘twerking gone wrong’, Okwui Okpokwasili’s dance-theatre hybrid draws on difficult memories of her childhood
Okwui Okpokwasili wants to shake you. Up a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMWednesday, May 22, 2019
Sarah Einspanier’s play centers on beleaguered public defenders trying to find ways to nourish themselves and maybe one another.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMThe intrepid young actors from Shakespeare & Company perform on a four month tour, not unlike the traveling players from Elizabethan times.
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The film star is nominated for a Tony for “All My Sons,” a play with which she has a personal connection.
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Laura Eason’s adaptation of the Jules Verne novel is a reminder of how to make stage magic from simple elements.
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The Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s production synthesizes dramatic narrative with chamber music and some fantastic puppetry.
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Dave Malloy, the “Great Comet” composer, unpacks three songs from “Octet,” his (yes) a cappella musical about digital addiction.
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The Winter Garden, New York
A stage transfer for the spirited 80s comedy struggles to produce any memorable songs but provides an enjoyably silly night out nonetheless
A specter is haunting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMTuesday, April 23, 2019
The Marquis Theatre, New York
Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Santino Fontana gives a charming performance as a man dressing up as a woman to get ahead
What if all that stood between you and succes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMMonday, April 22, 2019
The American Airlines Theatre, New York
Thrilling, note perfect performances elevate yet another staging of Arthur Miller’s transgressive tragedy
A play about the rancid heart of the Ameri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMThe Booth Theatre, New York
An inspired idea, a comedic follow-up to Shakespeare’s brutal tragedy, is sadly not enough to sustain a disappointingly thin show
Nine onstage deaths, three sev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:47AMSunday, April 21, 2019
He played ‘anxious weirdo nerds’ in Pitch Perfect and Dear Evan Hansen, but on his soul-baring new album Ben Platt has a new role ... himself
‘I really like playing people who aren’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMFriday, April 19, 2019
The Golden Theatre, New York
The Tony award winner dominates as the politician in a 2008-set work of speculative stage drama with John Lithgow as her supportive husband
Remember when Hillar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AMThursday, April 18, 2019
“Anthem: Homunculus” is a six-hour, 10-episode epic about a man and his teratoma. The tumor sings. As do Glenn Close, Patti LuPone and Cynthia Erivo.
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Hudson Theatre, New York
A standout performance from the brooding actor is the main selling point of an 80s-set comedy drama that fails to match him
A small play about big words – sex, dea…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMThursday, April 11, 2019
Sunday, April 7, 2019
This series, which debuts Tuesday on FX, includes many midcentury Broadway and film personalities and their works. Here’s a cheat sheet.
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With Taylor Mac’s “sequel” about to open on Broadway, we look at how Shakespeare’s goriest play has seeped into pop culture.
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Turns out that a Jacobean tragedy with a bleak worldview and an extensive body count can still be a lot of fun.
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Heidi Schreck’s funny, impactful and breathlessly exciting ode to the constitution is one of the year’s best shows
Shattering, galvanizing and very funny, Heidi S…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:00PMFriday, March 29, 2019
A limited FX series revives two Broadway legends, Bob Fosse and Gwen Verdon. Will the show razzle dazzle us? Or will it find a new way to tell the story of artists who behave badly?
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Shana Cooper’s revival at Theater for a New Audience is so deep in conversation with itself and its dance battles that it nearly forgets to speak to us today.
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The final show at Jack’s current location is weird and difficult to parse. But it’s nice to know there’s a place for theater like this in New York.
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Imperial Theatre, New York
Broadway’s latest jukebox music is electrified by fantastic singing and dancing but let down by some inert storytelling
There’s a chilly irony at the shrink-wr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:00PMWednesday, March 20, 2019
The Public Theater, New York
The Pulitzer prize-winning playwright has created an absurdist, challenging drama about the fallout from a racially motivated attack by police
Slavery ended in 1…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PM 
