Thursday, March 10, 2016
Clurman Theater, New York, NYBased on a real-life case of a boy raised as a girl after a dire surgical mishap, this play is sensitively acted but could go deeper into the issuesIs biology de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01PM[SHARE]Belasco Theater, New YorkA distressing, nuanced two-hander about the dangerous influence and magnetism of traumatic events, this is the most lacerating play on BroadwayIt is hard to imagine …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PM[SHARE]Wednesday, March 9, 2016
Nederlander Theatre, New YorkSet on a floating casino hit by an earthquake (among other things), this knowingly awful musical seems more suited to a bar than BroadwayWho among us has not lon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20AM[SHARE]Tuesday, March 8, 2016
Westside Theater, New YorkNassim Soleimanpour's play has a different performer every night, each handed the script upon arriving onstage. Lane took up the challenge, and his performance had …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AM[SHARE]Friday, March 4, 2016
New York Theatre Workshop, New York, New YorkBeginning with the discovery of performance enhancing drugs in a locker-room, this play comes to the boil " and the lead actor deserves a medal f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AM[SHARE]Playwrights Horizons, New YorkThe tensions between assimilation and honoring ancestry and tradition provide the subject for Danai Gurira's inconsistent but engaging playDanai Gurira's often …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AM[SHARE]Friday, February 26, 2016
The minutiae of the pressures and games among female teachers living in close quarters at a boarding school are revealed in this Irish play from 1938.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]Polonsky Shakespeare Center, New YorkTrevor Nunn turns one of Shakespeare's least-loved plays into something sumptuous and spectacular " though the seafaring plot remains ridiculousPericles …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AM[SHARE]Thursday, February 25, 2016
Booth Theater, New YorkThe actor does not entirely inhabit the part of Erie, a melancholy gambler, in this lavish Michael Grandage production of a minor Eugene O'Neill workWhat small bliss t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:42AM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 24, 2016
Dan O'Brien's play examines his friendship with the photojournalist Paul Watson after Mr. Watson won a Pulitzer for images of a dead American soldier.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25AM[SHARE]Monday, February 22, 2016
Sunday, February 21, 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 10:09PM[SHARE]The stage director Jack O'Brien reflects on his friendship with Mr. Nichols and the interviews for this documentary, which runs Monday on HBO.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:27PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 18, 2016
Helen Hayes Theater, New YorkThe pressures of family, work and keeping a roof over one's head simmer slowly in this superbly acted play about a beleagered family meeting in a tumbledown apar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31PM[SHARE]This Russian production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music plants actors amid the audience to heighten a sense of trepidation and exasperation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 17, 2016
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Deconstructing Eugene O'Neill's take on Aeschylus' "Oresteia" cycle, Target Margin mostly strips the stage and places the audience at a remove.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:41PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 11, 2016
Lydia R Diamond's play, set during Barack Obama's 2008 victory, plays with ideas of race and academia but fails to join the dots in this unrooted dramaHas a play ever boasted a cast of chara…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44PM[SHARE]Tuesday, February 9, 2016
The Pulitzer prize-winning writer's latest sees him tackle his own youth with an at times predictable yet bracing tour of a small Catholic boarding schoolManhattan Theater Club, New YorkHas …
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Thursday, February 4, 2016
Siblings try to decide how to honor the memory of their brother, who died on Sept. 11, in Nick Gandiello's affecting if overwrought drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PM[SHARE]Wednesday, February 3, 2016
Robert Askins drew on his evangelical Texas upbringing to create a comedy about a teenager tormented by an evil puppet. As the play hits Britain, will he quit his day job mixing margaritas i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:45AM[SHARE]Sunday, January 31, 2016
A Brooklyn warehouse becomes a 1970s tropical resort in a sensuous Third Rail stage production that aims for immersion " but ultimately feels forcedHow quickly an orgy can pall.That's one of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16AM[SHARE]Thursday, January 28, 2016
Mr. Shepard comments on his play, soon to have its third major production in New York; his upbringing; and the limitations he finds in his own oeuvre.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PM[SHARE]Sam Shepard's play has had two major New York productions; a third is coming to the New Group. Cast members in each have something to say about it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 24, 2016
This play, an adaptation of Margery Williams's 1922 book, features the bond between a boy and a stuffed toy he receives for Christmas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 20, 2016
Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New YorkUnfocused, anemic and astonishingly trivial, the only audience members likely to be scandalised by this adultery drama are those who need to get out moreTh…
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