
The lingering theatrical convention of casting Caucasians in roles that call for Asians incites exasperation in Han Ong's play "Chairs and a Long Table."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:15PM[SHARE]City Center, New YorkThe stage is set for a thriller, but David Auburns play, while accurate in its portrayal of human relationships, never delivers a knockout blow Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:58AM[SHARE]In Nikkole Salter's "Carnaval," three men travel to Rio de Janeiro, in an exploration of black masculinity and friendship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PM[SHARE]Emily Padgett and Erin Davie star as the performers Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined twins, in the Broadway revival of the musical "Side Show."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PM[SHARE]Two African-American executives, caught in an elevator during a building crisis, discuss matters of class and sex as well their own threatened physical safety.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PM[SHARE]Genet's "The Maids" is reconceived with a little help from the professionals " professional housekeepers, that is " at Abrons Arts Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:22PM[SHARE]Benjamin Kunkel's "Buzz" follows a playwright and his girlfriend in their South Brooklyn apartment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PM[SHARE]Old Sound Room, a company built by recent Yale School of Drama grads, has adapted spooky yarns plucked from Neil Gaiman's "Fragile Things."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19PM[SHARE]American Airlines theatre, New YorkThe shows stars give complex and endearing performances, but this is an emotionally distant revival of Tom Stoppards heart-wrenching play Continue reading.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:39AM[SHARE]In "The Dreary Coast," an immersive theatrical work from Jeff Stark, Hades, king of the underworld, sits enthroned on the banks of the Gowanus Canal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:38PM[SHARE]Neil Simon Theatre, New YorkThe folk-inflected songs are full of vigour and Jimmy Nail proves distractingly charismatic in this industrial musical Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AM[SHARE]Neil Simon Theatre, New YorkThe folk-inflected songs are full of vigour and Jimmy Nail proves distractingly charismatic in this industrial musicalAfter suffering 10 years of writer's block, …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:01AM[SHARE]Lyceum theatre, New YorkA posse of TV talent tackles a Pulitzer prize-winning drama that asks difficult questions of religion, assimilation and individuality Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:18PM[SHARE]James Dickey's 1970 novel, "Deliverance," has been given the theatrical treatment by the Godlight Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PM[SHARE]Kimber Lee's "brownsville song (b-side for tray)," at the Claire Tow Theater, explores a teenager's death.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AM[SHARE]"Inner Voices" consists of two solo musicals: one about an artist whose friend is dying of AIDS in the next room, and the other about a famous writer in the process of going blind.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:38PM[SHARE]Mark Dendy, a Broadway choreographer, structures his autobiographical piece "Labryinth" around the myth of Theseus, combining confession with dance, video and songs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PM[SHARE]Not even Nathan Lane and a slew of vulgar jokes can save this play about plays from Terrence McNallys sour scriptF Murray Abraham: I am afraid of nothing on stage Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:40PM[SHARE]The Assembly's "That Poor Dream" is an expressive, uneven update of Charles Dickens's "Great Expectations."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:05PM[SHARE]"The Killing of Sister George," a 1964 black comedy, features a radio actress whose personality is at odds with her sweet on-air character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Ethel Barrymore theatre, New YorkAlex Sharp delivers a star turn in an amped-up staging of Mark Haddons bestselling novel Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57AM[SHARE]The Bushwick Starr, a dingy, elegant but strangely welcoming performance space in Brooklyn, has become a bright spot on the Off Off Broadway map.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:51PM[SHARE]Films of different genres and eras run through "Alan Smithee Directed This Play: Triple Feature," presented by Big Dance Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AM[SHARE]Self-effacing in person, Romola Garai, making her New York theater debut in Tom Stoppard's "Indian Ink," is drawn to strong-willed characters on the stage and screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]In "A Sucker Emcee," Craig Grant, known as muMs, recounts his ups and downs in rhymed couplets while a D.J. plays hip-hop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]In "riverrun," a solo show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, Olwen Fouéré plays the character who personifies the River Liffey in "Finnegans Wake."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11PM[SHARE]Everetts shtick is a little samey, but theres something deeply gratifying about a woman celebrating her appetite for sex and rocknroll Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:22PM[SHARE]A houseful of immigrant women, three of whom work the same, numbing factory job, are at the center of "To the Bone," a play by Lisa Ramirez at the Cherry Lane Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]In "Ndebele Funeral," at 59E59 Theaters, a woman afflicted with AIDS prepares to die in a South Africa beset by bleak realities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Kenneth Lonergans breakout play revived with three young stars in a cruel to be kind portrayal of disillusioned youth Continue reading...
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