Monday, May 25, 2015
The acrobatics of love are performed in high style in “Brief Encounter,” which is surely the most enchanting work of stagecraft ever inspired by a movie.
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Lee Hall’s drama “The Pitmen Painters” explores the meaning of art through a group of aesthetically adventurous miners in Northern England during the 1930s and ’4…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMCherry Jones and Sally Hawkins star in Doug Hughes’s revival of the Shaw play “Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” about a prosperous madam re-entering the life of her dau…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Gatz,” a work of singular imagination and intelligence, chronicles one reader’s gradual but unconditional seduction by a single, ravishing novel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMDavid Mamet’s 1977 play, “A Life in the Theatre,” opened in an ill-advised Broadway revival starring Patrick Stewart and T. R. Knight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThere’s not a show in town that more astutely reflects the state of this nation than “Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson,” the rowdy political carnival that opened on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe production of "Gatz" has stirred memories of other shows adapted from well-known literary works. And it has made me appreciate how hard it is to capture a novel's sensibility on stage.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Finishing the Hat,” a self-portrait of Stephen Sondheim as an obsessive lyricist, is about a dynamic, unending process: it’s about finishing, not having finished.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Penelope,” from the Druid Theater, tells the story of the men trying to woo the title character after her husband, Odysseus, goes off to the Trojan War.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Angels in America” returns for a revival by the Signature Theater Company in a production that feels cozier, more accessible and less startling than it did when it opened in N…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Shakespeare’s Globe production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” at Pace University, treats this low-rent farcical war horse with a little respect.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMLisa Kron’s “In the Wake” at the Public Theater is a more conventionally naturalistic play than Ms. Kron’s memoir pieces, “Well” and “2.5 Min…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Shakespeare’s Globe production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” at Pace University, treats this low-rent farcical war horse with a little respect.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe musical adaptation of “Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown,” at the Belasco Theater on Broadway, has a serious case of attention deficit disorder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMAnnie Baker’s distinctively bittersweet sounds of silence are echoing throughout the Boston Center for the Arts, where three of her plays are being performed, with considerable skill …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMDaniel Sullivan’s production, full of clarity and subtlety, makes its premiere on Broadway after a summer in Central Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMFans of Peter Nichols, one of the finest and most underrated British dramatists of the second half of the 20th century, will definitely find elements to savor in “Lingua Franca.ȁ…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMJohn Guare’s historical comedy “Free Man of Color,” at the Vivian Beaumont Theater, tosses up bright balls of allusion and prays they’ll land in a coherent patter…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe road to salvation is flat and narrow in “The Break of Noon,” Neil LaBute’s single-tone study starring David Duchovny.
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