Monday, September 26, 2016
New York Theater Workshop, New YorkA new drama imagines the slave rebellion leader's final night in prison before being hanged. The result is a static two-hander in which the leads fail to c…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:12PM[SHARE]The Broadway legend won over fans as the emcee in Cabaret and he gained more admirers when he came out at age 82 " now he explains why theater is still sexyAnton Chekhov's The Cherry Orchard…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:49PM[SHARE]Friday, September 23, 2016
Wednesday, September 21, 2016
A stalwart of the Royal Shakespeare Company, Iwuji is finally playing Hamlet, in a production inspired by Black Lives Matter and which is being performed in homeless shelters and prisonsFor …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:37PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 20, 2016
Brian Quijada and Sonya Kelly are performing in plays they have written that illustrate the hoops people go through when they join another culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:51PM[SHARE]Starring in the revival of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," Mr. Schreiber doesn't see himself as a womanizer: It's "an awkward, uncomfortable mismatch."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:56AM[SHARE]Monday, September 19, 2016
The performer is embarking on an ambitious project " a 246-song marathon performance that seeks to sum up a new, queer vision of AmericaA couple of weeks ago, Taylor Mac spent the evening re…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:14PM[SHARE]Friday, September 16, 2016
Playing a well-to-do couple, the stars bring out the lacerating qualities in an Edward Albee play that has barely datedEdward Albee wrote as though he'd filed every typewriter key down to a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:20PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 15, 2016
Ms. Ryan plays a rapacious woman who ages from 19 to 64 in the course of the drama "Love, Love, Love," which begins performances on Sept. 22.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:15AM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 14, 2016
Brooklyn Academy of Music, New YorkStretching to well over three hours, three interpretations of the myth of Phaedra turn into a rugby ruck of postmodernismIt's tough to feel too much pity f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:45PM[SHARE]Monday, September 12, 2016
Playwrights Horizons, New YorkCan turtle soup heal the rift between a father and son? This play about the emotional uses of food is poignant, but its philosophical maxims are too sweetWe eat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51PM[SHARE]Friday, September 9, 2016
What if Cirque du Soleil acrobats took over "Avatar" " and little Norwegian trains just ran across some tracks? Such are the shows "Toruk" and "Bridge Over Mud."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 8, 2016
From Daniel Craig playing Iago to a 24-hour history of America as told through pop songs, there are a plethora of great shows to see on Broadway and beyondA coalminer's son reaches for the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:06PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 18, 2016
Monday, August 15, 2016
A theater critic with an infant son is going to shows less this summer, but she is managing to stay engaged in her field " sometimes outdoors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PM[SHARE]Monday, July 25, 2016
New York Theatre WorkshopCo-written and featuring songs by David Bowie, this jukebox musical based on The Man Who Fell to Earth is a thrilling theatrical odyssey " and almost impossible to u…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:16AM[SHARE]Sunday, July 10, 2016
The Harold and Miriam Steinberg Centre for Theatre, New YorkA lo-fi version of Stephen Sondheim's classic, currently in the cinema, manages to be both lucid and moving " despite the odd bum …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:07AM[SHARE]Friday, July 8, 2016
St Ann's Warehouse, New YorkLike a folksy Waiting for Godot, this play, co-written by Rylance with the poet Louis Jenkins, is intensely charming in its cock-eyed humanityIf Samuel Beckett we…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:23AM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 29, 2016
Thursday, June 23, 2016
Written by Kim Davies, this play focuses on an apparently brutal rape, its aftermath and the writer for a national magazine who covers the story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, June 22, 2016
"Privacy," a British hybrid comedy-documentary remade for an American audience and starring Mr. Radcliffe, ponders the trade-offs of our connected world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:01AM[SHARE]Monday, June 20, 2016
Brooke O'Harra's work, subtitled "A Living History Tour," draws on her career and is a meditation on the process of creation and the weirdness of reception.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09PM[SHARE]Monday, June 13, 2016
Shakespeare in the Park, New YorkAn all-female version of Shakespeare's problem play starts with a Trump-style announcer at a beauty pageant and ends with a rousing version of Bad Reputation…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:40PM[SHARE]What works on Broadway doesn't always succeed in London, but despite being a deeply American story, the blockbuster musical has the potential to be universalThe Americans are coming! The Ame…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:07PM[SHARE]Hosting, Corden opened with an uncharacteristically serious monologue as the awards ceremony paid tasteful tribute to the victims of Orlando while demonstrating the consolations of theatreHa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:28AM[SHARE]Friday, June 10, 2016
59E59 Theaters, New YorkTwo plays from over 40 years apart show the persistence of Ayckbourn's themes " the failure of humans to communicate " but offer a faint ray of hopeAlan Ayckbourn is …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:36PM[SHARE]Thursday, June 9, 2016
Irish Repertory Theater, New YorkA therapist and his patient are haunted by guilt and psychic visitations in this poignant revival of Conor McPherson's ambiguous and shimmering playIt takes …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22PM[SHARE]Public Theater, New YorkThis exuberant and original new musical mashes up genres from rap to operetta, creating a flawed but glorious portrait of the face on the $10 billIn a letter to Georg…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:27PM[SHARE]They're the biggest awards in theatre " and in 2016, the Hamilton juggernaut looks poised to bury the competition. But who else is likely to get a look-in? This is the year Hamilton blew us …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:07PM[SHARE]Tuesday, June 7, 2016
Dan Hoyle's play, an affectionate portrait of a South Bronx facing gentrification, is inspired by conversations with borough residents.
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