Monday, May 15, 2023
Directed by Hansol Jung and Dustin Wills, this sportive, vividly acted production fails to make a convincing case for its new gags and directorial flights.
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The 17th-century play, staged by the theater company Molière in the Park, skewers those who preach morality yet practice anything but.
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The musical comedy savant is a Tony nominee for playing Mrs. Lovett, a pie maker with an unusually gruesome recipe hack. “I can’t judge her. I just have to love her,” she said.
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Tornadoes whoosh dinner from the table and a shark swims through a flooded living room in a clown show that brings the environmental crisis home.
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The actress said she hopes that the play continues to generate discussions around sexual assault and said the response so far has been “beautiful.”
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With a 17th-century grocer as its hero, Red Bull Theater and Fiasco stage a 400-year-old comedy that’s both a satire of the theater and a valentine to it.
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In David Auburn’s new play, “Summer, 1976,” the actresses play unlikely friends whose relationship has the intensity of a love affair.
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As the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy.
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The one-woman show, coming to Broadway, is the “Killing Eve” star’s first stage role. She dared herself to do it.
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Zadie Smith brings her first play, an adaptation of Chaucer’s the Wife of Bath tale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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Human ingenuity and animal grace course through this rich, inventive play about difficult choices and the stories we tell to make sense of them.
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Broadway’s slapstick comedy “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” is full of daring sequences. What does it take? Countless rehearsals (and bruises).
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York
Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford play Stephen Sondheim’s murderous Victorian couple in a bold and barnstorming take
Despite having worn a beard for much of…
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Attention to culinary detail is the best part of this heavily seasoned family drama by Christin Eve Cato at the WP Theater.
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Keith Bunin’s gentle, rueful play at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater settles down among six passengers traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle.
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At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes.
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An affectionate elegy to a Greenwich Village restaurant, Neil Pepe’s production at Atlantic Theater orders everything on the menu.
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The actor stars in this new series as a slickster hawking time-shares on the moon. Now in his 50s, Crudup is getting some of the best roles of his career.
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The first major New York revival of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long?
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Friday, January 13, 2023
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
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The Under the Radar festival kicks off with an allegory about climate destruction by the Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed.
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Literary influences suffuse this year’s festival of avant-garde performance. Artists from six shows share the stories that inspired them.
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A play first performed in a tavern in 1665 survives with its title, and the court case it precipitated, intact — but nothing else.
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“Downstate” asks its performers to portray men who have done the unimaginable. Three of the play’s actors discuss what it takes to meet that challenge.
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New York Theatre Workshop, New York
The infamous 1981 disaster has returned off-Broadway with help from Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe
It is a paradox of human existence that while we e…
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Attempts to modernise the gender politics of the classic comedy struggle but there are some moments that deliver enough razzle-dazzle
There are several chase …
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Early 20th-century San Francisco and Guangdong, China, overlap in Lloyd Suh’s artful examination of the emotional price of immigration.
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Though smaller and less glitzy than extravaganzas of years past, “Dream Big” is a brisk, welcoming, back-to-basics experience brimming with pizazz.
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Jefferson Mays stars in a Broadway adaptation of the Dickens classic, a one-man production that was originally live-captured for streaming.
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