Wednesday, April 13, 2011
The Keen Company revives “Benefactors,” Michael Frayn’s structured dissection of two couples and how their lives unravel.
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A Palestinian refugee family is torn by the Arab-Israeli conflict in Mona Mansour’s “Urge for Going,” at the Public Theater.
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Qui Nguyen’s new play is an ambitious entertainment about modern identity wrapped inside an exploitation drama about what used to be called the “inscrutable Orient.”
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The Peccadillo Theater Company’s production of the 1951 musical “A Tree Grows in Brooklyn,” at the Theater at St. Clements, is a low-budget affair that wants to be high-budget.
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“The Method Gun” is a high-concept version of “A Streetcar Named Desire” with Stanley, Blanche, Stella and Mitch cut out.
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Wednesday, February 16, 2011
Tina Satter’s “In the Pony Palace/Football” dissects high school football with gender-flipped casting that reveals the sport’s hidden dimensions.
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Theater in the Dark, With Lights, a mini-festival in which three of his works are receiving short runs, provides an opportunity to judge whether Ashlin Halfnight has arrived.
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Trista Baldwin’s “American Sexy,” at the Flea Theater, shows how a group of young people can interact but not connect.
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“What the Public Wants,” Arnold Bennett’s 1909 play about the newspaper business, has resonance for today.
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With each performance, the cast of “Baby Wants Candy” concoct a different musical comedy with a story idea supplied by a member of the audience.
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Tuesday, January 11, 2011
The Public Theater’s annual festival of adventurous new works stretches theatrical forms and the imagination.
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The English comedian Daniel Kitson explores questions about loss and love and the pursuit of meaning that are too complicated to answer completely.
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Absent from the theatrical menu are original holiday dramas that are entertaining, accessible and even sentimental.
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“Mummenschanz,” the granddaddy of wordless, whimsical nonsense spectacles, is back in New York for the first time since 2003, along with its beloved giant faceless puppets.
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Inspector Sands, a smartly off-kilter British company, is making an attention-getting introduction to New York with two shows in repertory.
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Wednesday, December 15, 2010
“Let Them Eat Cake” dramatizes a debate among members of the left about the importance of fighting for marriage as opposed to other civil rights issues.
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As shows by troupes like the Civilians inch closer to journalism, questions are raised about their responsibility to journalistic standards.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMIn “Lay of the Land,” Tim Miller ruminates on gay politics, using various snapshots from his childhood and his travels.
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A stage adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” unfolds at the 3LD Art @ Technology Center.
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An impressive amount of melodrama, activity and funny voices is packed into “Being Sellers,” a solo biographical play by Carl Caulfield about the actor Peter Sellers.
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Steven Banks brings his secret life out of hiding with a new play, “Looking at Christmas,” at the Flea Theater.
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Friday, November 19, 2010
Wednesday, November 17, 2010
Talk of witches and spirits is woven into the fabric of Heidi Schreck’s sturdy dining-room drama “There Are No More Big Secrets.”
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The “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” feels like an entertainment throwback, which is part of the appeal.
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