Friday, November 3, 2023
Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth's willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source.
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"I walk into a show and everybody's kind of a little afraid. Then I hear, 'Oh, but you're so nice,'" the actress said of her Hollywood baggage.
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The festival of experimental work is planning a citywide event at multiple venues in January, after the Public Theater declined to fund the 2024 iteration.
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Tuesday's finale of "Only Murders in the Building" wrapped a season that was a love letter to Broadway musicals, not least because it was a little silly.
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The festival presents a violent Shakespearean interaction with fruit, dance for neurodiverse and neurotypical audiences and showers of (play) money.
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"What the theater gives me is the feeling that I'm using everything," the actress said of returning to the stage after a decade away.
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Tuesday, August 22, 2023
Our critics debate how well shows like "Six," "& Juliet" and "Once Upon a One More Time" engage with the inner worlds of women onstage.
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In his Broadway debut, the illusionist Antonio DÃaz does levitation and teleportation. But it's simple tricks, with cards and balls, that really wow.
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How a theater collective transformed the too-weird-to-be-true story of a World War II counterintelligence scheme into a West End musical with heart.
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In honor of "Theater Camp," a new movie about a fictional sleepaway site, we asked Broadway veterans and movie stars for their favorite camp memories.
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In a show staged in Federal Hall, five prominent playwrights tell the story of the site of significant events in the country's founding, without glossing over the uglier parts.
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Monday, June 19, 2023
The theatrical performance of F. Scott Fitzgerald's 1925 novel, opening this month at the Park Central Hotel, is the latest in a very long, heavily sequined line of "Gatsby" adaptations.
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The longtime New York actor explains why his character in Eboni Booth's play about a lonely bookstore worker is closer to him than any other he's taken on.
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With a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway's shows, performers and creative teams.
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"It wasn't a choice I would have made," said Mark Russell, whose festival of experimental work will no longer be produced by the Public Theater.
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Directed by Hansol Jung and Dustin Wills, this sportive, vividly acted production fails to make a convincing case for its new gags and directorial flights.
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The 17th-century play, staged by the theater company Molière in the Park, skewers those who preach morality yet practice anything but.
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The musical comedy savant is a Tony nominee for playing Mrs. Lovett, a pie maker with an unusually gruesome recipe hack. "I can't judge her. I just have to love her," she said.
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Tornadoes whoosh dinner from the table and a shark swims through a flooded living room in a clown show that brings the environmental crisis home.
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The actress said she hopes that the play continues to generate discussions around sexual assault and said the response so far has been "beautiful."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PM[SHARE]Tony nominators singled out new faces and set up fascinating face-offs, but missed the chance to recognize a Native American breakthrough.
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With a 17th-century grocer as its hero, Red Bull Theater and Fiasco stage a 400-year-old comedy that's both a satire of the theater and a valentine to it.
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In David Auburn's new play, "Summer, 1976," the actresses play unlikely friends whose relationship has the intensity of a love affair.
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As the longest-running musical in Broadway history closes, Times critics with a lasting affection for the show take stock of its legacy.
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Human ingenuity and animal grace course through this rich, inventive play about difficult choices and the stories we tell to make sense of them.
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