Tuesday, May 17, 2016
David Hare’s drama shows Wilde before and after his imprisonment for homosexuality, illustrating love as a force both sacred and profane.
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Encores! revives a 1965 romantic work that features music by Richard Rodgers on the wane, and Stephen Sondheim on the rise.
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Sunday, May 8, 2016
Monday, May 2, 2016
Beneath the rowdy humor, there is always the sense of a desperate emptiness in Richard Bean’s comedy about the rhythms of a blue-collar workday.
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“A Streetcar Named Desire,” directed by Benedict Andrews, is a brave take on a classic play that envelops the audience in a timelessly primeval world.
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Wednesday, April 27, 2016
The production, starring Gabriel Byrne, Jessica Lange, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher Jr., features some heavy-weather acting.
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Aoife Duffin stars in this story of a rebellious Irish girl, based on the novel of the same name by Eimear McBride.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:37PMThe settings for these monologues summon feelings of isolation in a crowd: a bus traveling by night through the heartland and the streets of New York.
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Tuesday, April 19, 2016
Alice Birch’s short, sharp shock of a play has a ferocious energy as it addresses women and their relationships with men, one another and a world in upheaval.
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This work by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Steve Broadnax, has toured globally, bringing difficult discussions of race and justice along with it.
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Anne Washburn’s play, at Playwrights Horizons, brings old friends together for a funeral and blurs the borders between worlds.
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Arthur Miller’s endlessly revived historical drama from 1953 suddenly feels like the freshest, scariest play in town.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThis stately concert production at City Center, part of Encores!, underscores the agonizing labor that momentous change often involves.
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Broadway composers like Tom Kitt and Jason Robert Brown take part in a concert at Symphony Space intended to lodge some new tunes between your ears.
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This Tarell Alvin McCraney play centers on family fissures and a woman whose loved ones have gathered for her birthday.
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Friday, March 25, 2016
This Origin Theater production by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, at the Cell in Chelsea, follows a woman at war with herself.
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Monday, March 21, 2016
This new play, performed by the Bats, the Flea Theater’s resident company, centers on a wistful 16-year-old surrounded by a feral and violent clan.
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Lucy Prebble’s play at the Barrow Street Theater centers on a young man and woman who question their emotions during a four-week pharmaceutical trial.
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Robert Wilson, as director, designer and actor, reinvents Beckett’s play at the Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair, N.J.
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The 1963 musical set in a 1930s perfume shop in Budapest has been rapturously revived by the Roundabout Theater Company.
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In Mr. Lonergan’s play, a narcissistic country music and movie star returns to the Tennessee town where he grew up to start a new life as a simple man.
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This Alex Timbers revival includes a bluegrass band and a rogues’ gallery of oddball comic performers in this musical based on a Eudora Welty novella.
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David Harrower’s disturbing drama of criminal love returns in a Broadway staging starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMIn Anna Ziegler’s play, Bobby Steggert plays a character — based on an actual person — who was born male but raised female after a botched circumcision.
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This Marco Ramirez play, which takes place in the early 20th century, is set amid the sport of boxing and recreates the racism of the day.
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