Thursday, November 29, 2018
Heidi Rodewald and Donna Di Novelli’s song cycle at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is beautifully delivered but frustratingly opaque.
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Stockard Channing, Glenn Close, Rosemary Harris and Mercedes Ruehl on loving fiercely and listening closely in four current plays.
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This World War I-set musical recounts a brief ceasefire when enlisted men on both sides buried their dead and exchanged small gifts.
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The Big Apple Circus returns with oversize airborne cranberries, a steamy aerial ballet and a prancing pig.
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Broadway Theatre, New YorkDespite the spectacle of a 2,400lb puppet, a shambolic production doesn’t know what to do with him and any magic quickly evaporatesKing Kong arrives fashionably l…
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The Booth Theater, New YorkKerry Washington plays a mother whose son goes missing in a tough, timely play about the dangers of being young and black in AmericaWhen the lights rise on Christo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMIt started as a show that toured Vermont in a school bus. Now it’s hitting the National Theatre and is bound for Broadway. We track the long, winding road of HadestownHadestown, the Orphic…
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Mia Chung’s play, presented at the New Ohio Theater by Page 73, lays bare the theatricality of family life with actors who cross genders and ages.
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Caitlin Saylor Stephens’s play, directed by Meghan Finn for the Tank, is like a fun house ride that’s just a pile of distorting mirrors.
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The music soars but the creative process is flattened in a biomusical devoted to the poet’s early adulthood.
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The John Golden Theatre, New YorkKenneth Lonergan’s personal play about a gallery owner losing her memory is a beautifully acted, quietly crushing tragedyThe Waverly Gallery, now revived o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:42PMManual Cinema’s “Frankenstein” is a film-theater hybrid that fuses Mary Shelley’s novel with her biography, emphasizing themes of desire, birth and loss.
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Sharing stories of a professionally thrilling Broadway role in “My Fair Lady” that coincided with personal loss.
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Studio 54, New YorkAn intriguing premise and a confident assemblage of ideas fall apart onstage despite a trio of strong performancesFact: Lifespan of a Fact is one of the three best new pla…
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Armed with money for a theater (which doesn’t exist) to save his town, a mayor tries his hand at playwriting in this two-actor, multicharacter comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMCondescend at your own risk to Sophia Anne Caruso, the go-to girl for adventurous stage roles. “Even from a young age,” she says, “I had very finicky taste.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMCan a drama about the nature of consciousness be emotional, too? For its latest production, he’s tinkered with the script to firmly answer yes.
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Anne Bogart directs a flashy production that puts ancient anxieties about women and power front and center.
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Triad theater, New YorkThis musical parody stars Gina Gershon as Melania and is stuffed with unsubtle humour, but no parody is as shocking as the president himselfDemocracy in shambles? Why …
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Thursday, September 13, 2018
Fine performances elevate Jaki McCarrick’s slow-paced Irish drama, which owes a big debt to Chekhov and O’Casey.
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With its focus on exiles finding protection and outcasts earning redemption, this revival of the 1983 production feels more timely than ever.
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Wednesday, September 5, 2018
For more than 30 years, the British troupe Forced Entertainment has been challenging audiences to imagine bigger. And sit longer.
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Thursday, August 30, 2018
Thursday, August 16, 2018
Nederlander Theater, New YorkThe dated gender politics of the Julia Roberts hit fail to receive an upgrade in a shallow musical that falls apart on stageTuneful, schlocky, and deeply offensi…
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