Friday, March 8, 2013
In tour-de-force performances, James McAvoy is a war-traumatized Macbeth and Kate O'Flynn is a girl aching to flee her bleak home town in "Port."
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Wednesday, March 6, 2013
"The Audience" is a sort of starched-bosomed nanny of a play, offering the artistic equivalent of nursery food and equally digestible history lessons.
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Sunday, March 3, 2013
"Rodgers & Hammerstein's Cinderella" wants to be reassuringly old-fashioned and refreshingly irreverent, sentimental and snarky, sincere and ironic, all at once.
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Thursday, February 28, 2013
Tuesday, February 26, 2013
Edie Falco stars in "The Madrid," a new play by Liz Flahive about a kindergarten teacher who leaves her job and family without so much as a goodbye.
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A new production of "The Glass Menagerie" has a critic remembering other oft-seen plays that felt brand new thanks to a director's interpretation or unusual casting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:46AM[SHARE]Women " from real life and fiction " will be the leading characters of several prominent Broadway productions (like "Ann," "The Testament of Mary" and "Matilda the Musical") this spring.
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Friday, February 15, 2013
Romeo Castellucci's "On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God" contemplates the end of a human life with visceral detail.
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In the gorgeous new production of "The Glass Menagerie" at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., something both momentous and commonplace has happened.
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Friday, February 8, 2013
In "Clive," by Jonathan Marc Sherman, Ethan Hawke plays the title character and also directs the New Group production of an update of Brecht's "Baal."
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Sunday, February 3, 2013
Thursday, January 31, 2013
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Some theater companies performing Off Broadway are using disabled actors, sometimes deliberately making a point of their disabilities
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Monday, January 21, 2013
Friday, January 18, 2013
The Nalagaat Theater, which is made up of performers who are both deaf and blind, offers an optional dinner in their performance piece "Not by Bread Alone."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:43PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 17, 2013
Scarlett Johansson confirms her promise as a stage actress of imposing presence in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams's "Cat on a Hot Tin Roof," his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955 play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Belarus Free Theater offers a scathing mosaic of its home city with "Minsk, 2011," at the Under the Radar festival at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 16, 2013
"Seagull (Thinking of you)" is a play that blurs boundaries: between actors and their roles, male and female, fiction and reality, past and present, parody and sincerity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PM[SHARE]"Midsummer," written and directed by David Greig, is a rom-com in theatrical form centering on a long, wild weekend in Edinburgh complete with theft, bondage and drinking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PM[SHARE]Tuesday, January 15, 2013
"I, Malvolio," a one-man show by Tim Crouch (with a little audience assistance), takes a "Twelfth Night" character out of context for the fun of it.
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"Opus No. 7," from the Dmitry Krymov Lab of Moscow, probes memory, ancestors, Mother Russia and the case of Dmitri Shostakovich, at St. Ann's Warehouse.
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