Friday, November 21, 2014
Glenn Close, John Lithgow and Lindsay Duncan bring out the ominous, lacerating qualities in an Edward Albee play that has barely dated Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AM[SHARE]Thursday, November 20, 2014
Seven actors draw on their adolescence to animate "Punk Rock," a drama about the power, vulnerability and confusion of youth, set at a private school in England.
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Tuesday, November 18, 2014
St James Theatre, New YorkRevived by the director of the movie version of Chicago, this story about conjoined twins never gets to the heart of what makes the two women tick Continue reading.…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:29AM[SHARE]Monday, November 17, 2014
Circle in the Square, New YorkJackman reels in the audience but theres plenty more to savour in Jez Butterworths moody, elegiac and fishy tale Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:53AM[SHARE]Wednesday, November 12, 2014
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]Sunday, November 9, 2014
Thursday, November 6, 2014
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]Wednesday, November 5, 2014
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]Tuesday, November 4, 2014
Genet's "The Maids" is reconceived with a little help from the professionals " professional housekeepers, that is " at Abrons Arts Center.
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Friday, October 31, 2014
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]Thursday, October 30, 2014
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]Monday, October 27, 2014
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]Friday, October 24, 2014
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]Thursday, October 23, 2014
Tuesday, October 21, 2014
Monday, October 20, 2014
"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]Friday, October 17, 2014
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]Friday, October 10, 2014
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...
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Tuesday, October 7, 2014
"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]Monday, October 6, 2014
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]Thursday, October 2, 2014
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]Wednesday, October 1, 2014
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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PM[SHARE]Monday, September 29, 2014
Scott Elliss revival of the 1936 play, starring James Earl Jones, will melt the hardest hearts with its strange central family Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:27AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 25, 2014
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]Tuesday, September 23, 2014
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