Sunday, December 9, 2018
In a staggering professional New York debut, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris unpacks interracial relationships both antebellum and postmodern.
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It was a year when classics were reincarnated in deceptively modest interpretations, conventional story forms were tossed aside and strong voices roared.
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The three faces of Cherilyn Sarkisian Bono Allman are the subject of a new Broadway jukebox musical that’s big on sequins, low on insight.
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Off Broadway productions in December consider migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Manhattan, plus one well dressed emissary from Beverly Hills.
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A gorgeously illustrated stage version of the classic essay about 1960s California ennui may miss the point.
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A delicious new musical about Broadway narcissists, Indiana homophobes, the possibility of accommodation — and zazz.
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Thursday, November 8, 2018
The one-ton, 20-foot marionette is impressive, but the $35 million musical he stars in doesn’t even succeed as camp.
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Larissa FastHorse’s theatrical debunking of the Pilgrims and Natives narrative is really a satire of theatricality itself.
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As a black mother with a son in danger, Ms. Washington is up against a situation she may not be able to fix.
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Steven Levenson’s new play about young ’60s radicals has the unintentional effect of making all protest seem childish.
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Soho Rep continues its laudable tradition of sure-to-be-divisive plays with Kate Tarker’s word-drunk new satire of … well, something.
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Samuel D. Hunter’s golden diptych, set in twin cities in Idaho and Washington, gets a riveting production, with barbecue, at the reconfigured Rattlestick.
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Miranda Rose Hall’s new play about the relationship between a lesbian and a male-identified trans person grows as it goes along.
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Emily Mann’s stage biography of the feminist trailblazer is more of a historical pageant than a play, but what happens at the end is riveting drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMWhen a gassy essayist and a pesky researcher are forced together by a crusading editor you get a topical comedy with a lot to prove.
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Donja R. Love’s fantasia on the married life of a great civil rights orator suggests the price paid by the woman who gives him his voice.
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Can tiny companies thrive in the shadow of major institutions? In this theater-mad city, the question may actually run the other way.
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A stripped-down, communal version of the 1943 musical reveals a great complex work of theater, with chili and cornbread included.
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Bruce Norris’s new play at the Steppenwolf Theater Company applies his usual cynicism to questions of justice and vengeance for sex offenders.
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Revivals, transfers and new plays that look to the past make for an unusually reflective October theater scene.
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Janet McTeer plays Sarah Bernhardt as the Prince of Denmark in Theresa Rebeck’s muscular new play about gender limitation and possibility.
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Craig Lucas’s play — about deafness, gayness, addiction, disease, faith and philosophy — puts a modern family to the test.
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Albany politics in 1977 may not seem very scintillating. But Ms. Falco brings out the buried drama of an ambitious woman in a man’s political world.
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A woman hunts for her former foster brother. Was he, like so many young black men, a victim of drugs or police or violence? Or did he just disappear?
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The shape-shifting Kathryn Hunter plays 11 members of the court of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, witnessing and regretting the revolution.
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Wednesday, September 12, 2018
Jen Silverman’s play takes a spirited look at the emergence of women’s solidarity with the help of Sephora, Shakespeare and a well-aimed hand mirror.
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Hershey Felder plays the composer of “White Christmas” (and dozens of other American song classics) in a relentlessly minor key.
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