Monday, October 12, 2015
After taking a break from theater last year, Mr. Ryan has pushed himself to take on more roles and more challenges, including comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:27PM[SHARE]Saturday, October 10, 2015
Bam, New YorkThe artist and filmmaker's immersive theatre piece isn't as original as it could be " so why were audience members weeping at the end?Nation-building is not easy. It is messy, i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52PM[SHARE]Thursday, October 8, 2015
Manhattan Theatre Club, New YorkThe two leads have sex appeal to spare " but this Sam Shepard play only really sets sparks flying in its final 15 minutesOnce in a while Nina Arianda gets to …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PM[SHARE]Tuesday, October 6, 2015
Dwarfed by a vast set and featuring music by Thom Yorke, this Broadway production of a Pinter play intrigues but never really disturbs its audienceRoundabout Theater Company, New YorkIn a 19…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26PM[SHARE]Monday, October 5, 2015
Atlantic Theater Company, New YorkSex has rarely been less erotic than in this revival of Caryl Churchill's dispassionate 1979 exploration of gender, class and colonialism An unusual fusion …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:22PM[SHARE]Friday, October 2, 2015
This solo show at BAM Fisher conjures a variety of global journeys, many seemingly autobiographical and fraught with some small peril.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:17PM[SHARE]A hip-hop musical about the founding father didn't sound like a natural fit for Broadway's traditionally more conservative crowd, but Lin-Manuel Miranda's mix of rap and Sondheim could signa…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 29, 2015
This musical adaptation of a 1912 novel is rooted in the correspondence between a girl and a man who pays for her college education..
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Brooks Atkinson Theatre, New YorkDeaf West Theatre's production of Frank Wedekind's play isn't the radical reimagining it's billed as but has something to say about modern communicationTeena…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 24, 2015
Mr. Karam, who specializes in agonizing comedies that are funnier than their subjects would indicate, has a new play, "The Humans," that can also be viewed as a horror story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:56PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 20, 2015
This Mark Dendy cabaret explores the story of Ms. Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, who is serving a prison term for leaking documents.
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Friday, September 18, 2015
Playwrights Horizons, New YorkA play about a charismatic pastor who has had a revelation that upsets his congregation asks difficult questions about belief and behaviour in AmericaWhether or…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:44AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 17, 2015
Classic Stage Company, New YorkThis 'transadaptation' of a Greek tragedy by an experimental playwright charts the creation of the characters we recognise from the epics " with spine-tingling…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38PM[SHARE]Mr. McGrath, a longtime character actor in theater, has won praise for his caricature-free portrayal of Tracy in Matthew Lopez's play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:16PM[SHARE]Tuesday, September 15, 2015
Al Hirschfeld theatre, New YorkMost New Yorkers would hesitate to don the dazzling footwear displayed in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots. When you live in a city of potholes, sloping si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PM[SHARE]Sunday, September 13, 2015
Friday, September 11, 2015
Her experimental play Mr Burns was described as 'three hours of utter hell' by one critic " but Washburn has been hailed as one of the most innovative playwrights aroundThe playwright Anne W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AM[SHARE]Thursday, September 10, 2015
Woodshed Collective's theatrical scavenger hunt sends participants racing from one location to the next in Lower Manhattan, often at a jog, sometimes in a moving vehicle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:26PM[SHARE]If an existentialist philosopher ever attempted a light romantic comedy, it might sound a little like this quaintly absurdist play by Alan Hruska at the Cherry Lane Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:03PM[SHARE]Wednesday, September 9, 2015
MCC Theater, New YorkIt's charming, but this play about an initially reluctant drag queen ducks the complicated questions " though the musical numbers are dynamiteTo thine own self be true. …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27PM[SHARE]Friday, September 4, 2015
Friday, August 28, 2015
Ms. Engel, best known for Georgette on the 1970s sitcom, returns to the stage in the play "John," which features her in her first leading role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, August 27, 2015
French whimsy, British royals and Liberian rebels vie for attention with adaptations of Misery and a Confederacy of Dunces and a Lloyd Webber musicalThe Berkeley Repertory Theatre trades nor…
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