Tuesday, December 3, 2019
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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Sylvia Khoury’s insidiously sharp new play arrives as the eight-year-old conflict is making fresh headlines in the United States.
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In Sean Daniels’s grim autobiographical comedy, a charming stage director tries, and tries again, to sober up.
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George Bernard Shaw gets sensitively streamlined in a briskly entertaining production with winning performers at its center.
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Kate Hamill and Andrus Nichols made their names in a theater company specializing in scaled-down classics. Now they’re forming their own troupe.
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An easily legible production of the ancient Greek tragedy borrows from the tradition of Noh theater at the Park Avenue Armory.
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John Glover lifts Michael Tucker’s otherwise convoluted and crowded dramedy of baby boomers contemplating life on a commune.
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By definition, live theater vanishes in the moment; Ms. Corwin pushed to have shows videotaped and deposited in a library collection, which she ran for decades.
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Ntozake Shange’s play, with its unflinching depiction of black women’s experience, is coming back to the Public Theater more than 40 years after opening there.
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The Flea Theater has revived this brief play, in which a flat tire is the least of the problems you might encounter in Central Park.
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Was it a one-time telephone interruption, or was it written into the show? And why was it so crucial to find out?
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A frenzy of strained joke-making and audience participation overwhelms a promising exploration of romance in the internet age.
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The screen and stage star is making his Broadway debut as the bottled-up husband wearing a “mask of control” in Harold Pinter’s romantic triangle.
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In a tender pair of monologues, Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal portray young fathers shaken out of complacency.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMWith plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happened to them.
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In Domenica Feraud’s potent drama, hard-driving parents don’t recognize the examples they set for a daughter with anorexia.
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This new “comedy musical” is lesser material than she deserves, but Ms. Rudner delivers an innocuously pleasant evening.
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Bereavement and self-destruction stalk the plays in Series A of this year’s Summer Shorts Festival in New York.
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