Wednesday, January 11, 2017
The British actress plays Prospero in an all-female “The Tempest,” her latest gender-switched Shakespeare production, set in a penitentiary.
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While “Top Secret International (State 1)” traffics in tech and disembodied narrators, “Real Magic” involves a clairvoyance game.
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The illustrator Edward Gorey proves a complex subject in this imagined memoir for the stage that focuses more on the man than his art.
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Jake Broder brings the decades-gone comedian back to slang-slinging life in “His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley,” but without the pith helmet.
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In Stan Richardson’s “Private Manning Goes to Washington,” the activist hacker Aaron Swartz wants to put on a play inspired by the whistle-blower Manning.
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The anthology “In This Moment” is presented free of charge by Theater for One in a mobile booth in the Pershing Square Signature Center’s lobby.
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Deke Sharon discusses his work on “In Transit,” an a cappella musical about the intertwining lives of New Yorkers.
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In a new version of William Burke’s play, at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, Elmo hates the Naked Cowboy, and the Cookie Monster has a box cutter.
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The 2016 “Christmas Spectacular Starring the Radio City Rockettes” has put the Music Hall dance troupe’s name in the title with good reason.
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Elizabeth Eaton Converse’s story and heartbreakingly fragile songs form the backbone of Howard Fishman’s play with music.
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The actress talks about preparing for the stage version of “Terms of Endearment” and about her penchant for giving advice.
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The German playwright Franz Xaver Kroetz’s 1973 drama takes naturalism to its extreme, showing a quiet woman passing through her evening.
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Tuesday, October 25, 2016
An oddly endearing production at the Abrons Arts Center that traffics far more in scary bearded creatures than narrative intelligibility.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PMIbsen’s evergreen story still has much to offer in this 90-minute version by David Harrower, given a modern-dress production by the Pearl Theater.
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Wednesday, September 28, 2016
Helder Guimarães brings his mastery of illusion to “Verso,” a one-man show directed by Rodrigo Santos at New World Stages.
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In his latest show, at the Marquis Theater, the comedian sounds not so much angry as defeated during an election year in which fiction and reality intersect.
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This Ana Nogueira play centers on a pill that allows a couple to know each other’s deepest feelings. Complications ensue.
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J. Stephen Brantley’s new play is set in 2008 as same-sex marriage is becoming legal one state at a time.
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Another theater critic roves through the festival, finding an ambitious revival here and many a hapless drama there.
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In Toshiki Okada’s latest play, commissioned by Hoi Polloi and staged at Jack, theatergoers sit on a mattress as a mystery traveler roams through the space.
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This performance artist’s new show, “Unicorn Gratitude Mystery,” explores the habit of taking refuge in fantasy and contrived distractions.
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Daniel Sullivan’s staging of this relatively obscure Shakespeare play at the Delacorte Theater gets many things right.
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This biographical play at 59E59 Theaters profiles Alice Austen, a 19th- and 20th-century photographer who chronicled city life and defied conventions of her day.
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Three shows — “Nickel Mines,” “Tink!” and “The Last Word” — offer piercing and at times sophisticated perspectives on a bewilderingly wide range of subjects.
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This adaptation of Mr. London’s 1908 novel is set in the 27th century, includes classic protest songs and a look back at life 700 years earlier.
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“Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme,” Molière’s 1670 comedy, is being presented as part of the Lincoln Center Festival by a French company.
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A nurse turned angel of death leaves behind a trail of poisoned husbands, lovers and children as she makes her way through the post-Civil War South.
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