Sunday, June 17, 2012
Banana Bag & Bodice’s “Space//Space,” at Collapsable Hole, is a surreal comedy set in the final frontier.
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The Untitled Theater Company #61 adapts “The Lathe of Heaven,” Ursula K. Le Guin’s classic dystopian novel, at 3LD Art and Technology.
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Jaime Castañeda directs the premiere of Fernanda Coppel’s play about two young women growing up fast in Los Angeles while their fathers strain to recapture their own youth.
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“Old Jews Telling Jokes,” based on a popular Web site, affectionately recycles humor from a rich tradition.
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Thursday, May 3, 2012
“Headstrong,” a tepid play by Patrick Link, looks at football injuries and the price players pay for their sport.
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“Ghost Brothers of Darkland County,” the Southern gothic musical by Stephen King and John Mellencamp that opened at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, has the feel of something devised ove…
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Sunday, April 22, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
In Gerda Stevenson’s play “Federer Versus Murray” a tennis rivalry stirs deeper turmoil for a middle-aged couple.
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As comedians pursue the relatively new school of storytelling, they sometimes show that emotion can be mixed with humor.
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Mike Daisey didn’t just break the rules of journalism. He did a disservice to his own art.
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“All Hands,” a Hoi Polloi production at the Incubator Arts Project, portrays a secret society of vague purpose, with smiling members. But it’s not exactly as sinister as that sounds.
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Tuesday, February 21, 2012
In “Bad Kid,” a solo show at the Axis Theater, David Crabb delivers a fairly ordinary story about youthful mistakes and adventures, yet his characters are vivid.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMQui Nguyen’s “Inexplicable Redemption of Agent G,” an ambitious entertainment about modern identity, has moved to Off Broadway in a Vampire Cowboys production.
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“A Map of Virtue,” with a story that needs gentle handling, comes to the stage with the light touch it demands.
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Richard Maxwell, once an intern for the Wooster Group, is now directing the group’s production of Eugene O’Neill’s “Early Plays.”
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Thursday, February 2, 2012
David Steinberg on why stand-up comedians aren't necessarily stable and why Canadian comics are so funny.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2012
“Newyorkland,” a multimedia show in the Coil Festival, examines law enforcement by separating fact from hyped-up fiction.
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The goods exchanged are unclear in a sexually charged encounter between a dealer and a client in Radoslaw Rychcik’s adaptation of a French play, but the high stakes are not.
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Experimental theater festivals, including Under the Radar, Coil, Other Forces and American Realness, enliven New York’s January.
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The promised “spectacle of raw shame” comes off more like a faded reproduction in “Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now.”
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Critics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
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“Wearing Lorca’s Bowtie” is an impressionistic mood piece inspired by the writings of Federico García Lorca.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:56PMReid Farrington’s version of “A Christmas Carol” is a technically complicated mash-up in which George C. Scott, Bill Murray and Donald Duck star along with live actors who double as st…
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A trip to the nation's capital for a night of politicians doing standup proved the old truism: Washington's rather humorless.
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