Tuesday, February 18, 2020
Minnesota’s Children’s Theater Company will present a play inspired by little-told stories of the wrenching Hormel strike: from kids on all sides of the dispute.
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James Ijames’s satire reconsiders a story that reaches back to our shared past, with an eye toward demolishing it in favor of a better future.
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This multimedia concert and career retrospective forgets that the best way to honor the composer is to have a good time with his music.
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In Sarah Einspanier’s fever-dream play, one half of a couple heads to Hollywood. The other gets an odd, and oddly familiar, new roommate.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMDeirdre O’Connell has a peculiar challenge performing the recollections of Lucas Hnath's mother in his play “Dana H.” Give credit to earbuds and Epsom salts.
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Roundabout Underground presents a flawed but tuneful musical about a young Manhattan couple challenged by addiction.
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It’s no surprise that this play about disillusionment, with its message of hope wrapped in warnings about nationalism and isolationism, was a choice for this season.
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Sarah Lozoff is joining one of the nation’s leading regional theaters for all 11 of its productions in its 2020 season.
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Patrick Vaill took his final Broadway bow as Jud Fry, after performing in Daniel Fish’s production of the musical since college.
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Friday, January 17, 2020
The Public Theater’s festival has included 12 featured offerings, four cabaret acts and six pieces of developmental work. Here’s what our critics saw.
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In this experimental play, a white talk-show host and a black science fiction writer have a challenging conversation. Plus dancing.
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Set in Dublin during the run-up to Ireland’s vote to repeal its abortion ban, this play by Eva O’Connor too easily pairs up two damaged souls.
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“Cartography,” a multimedia work inspired by migrants’ stories, presents their journeys as universal and heroic, not merely tales of suffering.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMWith powerfully contemporary stagings of “Betrayal” and “Cyrano,” Jamie Lloyd has had an attention-grabbing year. That’s not what makes him hard to miss.
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Steven Skybell was finally the right age for Tevye. Little did he know that when the time came, the show would be in Yiddish, and for a surprisingly long run that ended Sunday.
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The acrobatics in “’Twas the Night Before…” at Madison Square Garden are perfectly diverting, despite an illegible plot.
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Lois Smith, Estelle Parsons and Vinie Burrows on age, agility, perseverance and steering clear of “self-pitying old” roles.
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Amusing monologues and oddball encounters enliven T. Adamson’s overstuffed play that follows two friends on a very long car ride.
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Donja R. Love’s powerful play balances tenderness and fury to explore how H.I.V. has become a ”hidden emergency” in the black community.
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Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
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Inua Ellams discusses his surprise hit play, which has its New York premiere at the Next Wave Festival this week.
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Alan Lightman’s novel loses its charm in Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum’s show, which lacks a sense of a sure artistic voice.
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A critic who once resisted the charms of this holiday clownfest found herself floating on happiness this time around.
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This meandering jazz-infused drama, told across generations of a black family, strains to pull its focus from white women.
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The return of Tony Kushner’s “A Bright Room Called Day” prompted us to ask leading writers: How did it go for you? And what did you learn?
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The Next Wave festival’s latest digital dive: A tale of grief staged in a Brooklyn cafe that the audience only pieces together by smartphone.
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Anthony Black’s play is about the life-sustaining power of creating art. But it never overcomes the dull short story from which it’s adapted.
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In this Irish production, an 11-year-old actor plays the child who died too soon to get to know his immortal father.
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Sunday, October 27, 2019
A bracingly lucid Corey Stoll embodies Shakespeare’s thane who, step by step, cedes his soul to his own darkest impulses.
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