Monday, December 5, 2011
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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Friday, November 18, 2011
It’s an easy stroll of a performance for John Malkovich, who plays Jack Unterweger, a real-life Austrian serial killer, in Michael Sturminger’s staging of “The Infernal Comedy.”
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Dael Orlandersmith’s “Horsedreams” addresses the allure, as well as the often tragic outcomes, of cocaine use.
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What is the best new American drama of the first decade of this century? I would make the case for Kenneth Lonergan’s “Lobby Hero.”
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In a brief run at the White Light Festival, “Desdemona,” directed by Peter Sellars with a script by Toni Morrison, is a reimagining of the title character that comes off as an elegant le…
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A late one-act play by Tennessee Williams, “Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws,” has the nervous energy of a circus.
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Mia Yoo, the new artistic director of La MaMa, inherited the post from its colorful founder and longtime leader, Ellen Stewart, who died in January.
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“The Speaker’s Progress,” an elegantly staged satire about the Arab world from the Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman al-Bassam, is at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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“The Little Prince,” the 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, comes to the stage in the Bristol Riverside Theater production at the New Victory Theater.
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Pearl Theater’s production of Eugène Ionesco’s “Bald Soprano” treats the short play as an old-fashioned farce about two couples lost in their own heads.
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Jesse Eisenberg and Zoe Kazan, who both have written plays that open next month, talk about the theater and their careers.
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The conceit behind “Conni’s Avant Garde Restaurant: The Mothership Landing” is that a band of fictional performers who specialize in cutting-edge art and pretentiousness are serving up…
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A friend of Mike McAlary, a tough-guy columnist who died young, memorializes him in a play, “The Wood,” at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
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The popular idea that tough criticism emerges from malice or cruelty is almost always wrong. So why do critics write brutal pans? And can they go too far?
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"Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)" takes a satirical look at the rise of yeast from the ocean floor to start a new life form.
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“HotelMotel,” featuring plays by Derek Ahonen and Adam Rapp, is set in a room at the Gershwin Hotel and produced by the downtown troupe the Amoralists.
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“The Spoon River Project,” adapted by Tom Andolora from “Spoon River Anthology” by Edgar Lee Masters, is performed in Green-Wood Cemetery.
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“Our Lot,” by W. David Hancock and Kristin Newbom, centers on the stepchildren of a man who collected objects he said belonged to famous people.
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Shaping Cirque du Soleil’s new show, “Zarkana,” which opens in New York this week, involves trying to balance the tension between a circus and a rock opera.
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Guy Laliberté, the chief executive of Cirque du Soleil, prepares to open three huge shows before the end of the year.
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Tuesday, May 10, 2011
A selection of theater artists share their memories of the playwright and director Arthur Laurents, who died on Thursday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PMThe new documentary drama “Locker No. 4173b” is a smart if not altogether satisfying production by the New York Neo-Futurists.
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Two playwrights, Daniel Goldfarb and Jonathan Marc Sherman, talk about the experience of becoming fathers and the influence that has had on their work.
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Two brave, timely new American dramas are vying for best play.
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In “The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy,” Finegan Kruckemeyer’s play at the Duke on 42nd Street, a Dickensian storyteller relates the adventures of a boy made of cheese.
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