Monday, March 19, 2018
The Australian stand-up Hannah Gadsby examines a culture that excuses abuse and takes on comedy’s pieties. Laughter is not good medicine, in her view.
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In a rambling but dramatic and fascinating performance in Dublin, the comic addressed the fallout from her widely condemned Trump photo.
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The experimental theater company stages the Bard’s enigmatic “Measure for Measure” at the Public Theater.
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On the wings of his Netflix comedy special, “Staying Alive,” Mr. Morgan closes a stint at the comedy club with more of his near-death experience quipping.
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These two outsider comedians haven’t exactly gone mainstream, but they’ve had an outsize impact on communications from liquor ads to “Portlandia.”
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This Park Slope venue was shut down after a fire in March, but it has a strong slate of stand-up the week it reopens.
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Meghan Kennedy’s new play focuses on Italian parents and their three daughters growing up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in 1960.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMLane Moore’s shows involve real men on the dating app, but she works hard to avoid mocking them. The result is a clever show that’s deservedly a hit.
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The dissembling liar at the center of Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen. The hit Broadway musical is testament to the power of skillfully crafted art to obscure moral concerns.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan focuses on a near future with New York under martial law.
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This Pulitzer-winning playwright’s 1996 work, about a 19th-century star of English freak shows, will be directed by Lear deBessonet, an Obie winner.
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Friday, February 24, 2017
Yes, the three-ring circus can seem like a relic. But something irreplaceable will be lost when this tent is closed for good.
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This theater’s $2 ticket increase is a similar response to market pressures that eventually sent some Off Broadway prices into the stratosphere.
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Thursday, December 29, 2016
The play, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, focuses on a father-son relationship in a story about gypsy-cab drivers.
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Whether they were talking about a wife or a parent, comedians confronted the seemingly taboo subject in stark terms that made us laugh — and think.
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Wednesday, November 2, 2016
In this adaptation of the movie “The Band’s Visit,” an Egyptian band that arrives in Israel ends up stranded in a remote village after a mix-up at the border.
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Wednesday, October 5, 2016
Ms. Weisz is following in the footsteps of Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Kate Nelligan in David Hare’s drama.
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The insult comic has channeled anxieties about food and body insecurities into her first play, “Stuffed.”
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Wednesday, August 10, 2016
The star of “Not Safe With Nikki Glaser” on Comedy Central will headline six shows, beginning on Thursday, Aug. 18.
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Wednesday, July 13, 2016
Daniel Sullivan directs a version of one of Shakespeare’s problem plays at the Delacorte Theater for the free Shakespeare in the Park series.
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“War Paint,” one of the most anticipated new musicals of the year, opens at the Goodman Theater in Chicago this month.
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Charna Halpern — who, with the Chicago improv pioneer Del Close, devised a seminal improv technique — is a crucial conduit to “Saturday Night Live.”
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Shakespeare’s comedy, stuffed with rather dated gender politics, will run at the Delacorte Theater with an all-female cast.
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