Tuesday, June 14, 2016
This play, directed by Kristin Marting, emphasizes love and mourning through a collage of real online posts.
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Deploying visceral images and sounds, this production at Montclair State University is a radical transfiguration of the Moses story.
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Arguments among intellectuals take precedence in Mac Rogers’s play, set in Czechoslovakia in the years after World War I and overstuffed with ideas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMThis Jonathan Brielle musical retells the story of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle as a couple and as early-20th-century iconoclasts.
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Roles were spread around this year, but women are often still playing victims. Our critics discuss what worked, what didn’t and what they hope to see.
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Sigrid Gilmer blends time travel with runaway slaves in this comedy at the Robert Moss Theater, which features a heroic yet human Harriet Tubman.
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Mr. Albo’s new solo show, at Dixon Place, relates his immersion in the world of clinics and blood tests when he agrees to help his best friend become pregnant.
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Wednesday, May 11, 2016
This sung-through show at Axis Theater, from Randy Sharp and Paul Carbonara, looks and sounds good, but the story is a murk of confusion.
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Performance Space 122, a center of arts innovation, is offering a mobile tour of sites related to creative performance in the neighborhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMCreated with the director Rebecca Taichman, “Indecent” is inspired by Sholem Asch’s Yiddish play “The God of Vengeance.”
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Jordan Jaffe’s dark new eco-comedy stars Nico Tortorella as a callous young oil heir worried that his life may be ruined by a Gulf of Mexico spill.
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Monday, May 2, 2016
This Sarah Gancher play, set in Budapest, features a group deciding whether to fight a shutdown just as their country is shifting to the right.
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Red Bull Theater’s jaunty new production of Richard Brinsley Sheridan’s work is directed by Marc Vietor at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
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This new production from Ms. Satter’s theater company, Half Straddle, combines a pop concert and a drama as it explores two relationships gone awry.
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The British playwright’s American debut, “Revolt. She Said. Revolt Again.,” is a call for feminist revolution with a ferocity absent from her personal demeanor.
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This play, an investigation of family, creativity and home, takes its main inspiration from Luigi Pirandello’s “Six Characters in Search of an Author.”
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Laura Zlatos’s play at 59E59 Theaters sets up a retro rom-com world of young marrieds and introduces a baby whose sex can’t be determined.
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The four characters in J. Julian Christopher’s play consider this question: Is the priesthood a closet, a refuge or both?
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Aaron Davidman’s play about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict trusts in the power of the human voice and the capacity of the human heart.
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Monday, March 21, 2016
Carl Holder’s “An Intimate Evening With Typhoid Mary,” at the New Ohio Theater, mixes memory and cabaret.
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In Aaron Loeb’s play at 59E59 Theaters, co-workers take on an assignment that involves mass murder and the disposal of bodies.
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Monday, March 14, 2016
George Bernard Shaw’s first play, highlighting the social ills of slums, is reframed as an individual’s moral struggle in this adaptation at Beckett Theater.
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Playhouse Creatures Theater Company presents two of the playwright’s one-acts from 1982, the year before he died.
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This Charles Messina play features Ralph Macchio and Mario Cantone as part of a brash Italian-American family unconcerned with political correctness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:40PMA new program at colleges and universities aims at cultivating female playwrights and the creation of more female characters in their work.
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Tuesday, February 23, 2016
Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry’s dance-theater piece follows a band of worshipers in stringent religion who are seeking refuge from worldly suffering.
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