
In "Harper Regan" Mary McCann stunningly plays a working wife and mother who runs away from her job and her family when she suddenly feels mortal shadows are closing in on her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]"The Best of Everything" is based on Rona Jaffe's 1958 novel of workplace sexual politics (and sexual sex).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PM[SHARE]Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani in collaboration at La MaMa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:46PM[SHARE]"Grace," Craig Wright's tale of a Christian entrepreneur in Florida, stars Michael Shannon and Paul Rudd.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]At "Paris Commune" you might experience some of the dizzy exhilaration, liberation and exhaustion known by the Parisians who took over their city during this re-creation of a revolution.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:50PM[SHARE]Entrance applause can break the illusion, and the emotional momentum, that actors are working hard to sustain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:14PM[SHARE]A locked-down New York is the setting of Adam Rapp's new play, "Through the Yellow Hour," now at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Goodman Theater in Chicago has revived Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth," starring Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]"Habit," an art-theater project from David Levine, takes place in a structure within the Essex Street Market; audiences look through its windows or walk in.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:21PM[SHARE]Jake Gyllenhaal makes his New York stage debut as the wastrel uncle to an overweight, affection-starved teenage girl in Nick Payne's "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Every so often - and more frequently on stage than in film - the interiority of artistic creation is translated into a visible, physical language that raises goose bumps.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PM[SHARE]"Job," Thomas Bradshaw's latest play, hews close to the Bible and eagerly dives into forbidden subject matter.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]"Chaplin: The Musical," at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, describes the life behind the Little Tramp in terms of rags to riches to heartbreak.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]"Silent," a play written and performed by Pat Kinevane, is about a homeless Dubliner who believes he has become invisible and inaudible.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]That hard-hitting satirical revue of Broadway musicals, "Forbidden Broadway," is back with new routines and targets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Two London imports arrive this month: Nick Payne's "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet," and Simon Stephens's "Harper Regan."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM[SHARE]Stella Adler, the great acting teacher, is presented verbatim, discussing eminent American playwrights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AM[SHARE]The lovers in Philip Ridley's play never leave their own private world. And they keep reinventing it, with a savage spirit of competition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]In Sam Shepard's murky new play, "Heartless," a male academic with an unsettled life finds himself in a house full of unsettling women, most notably one played by Lois Smith.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Richard Nelson's production of "A Month in the Country," at the Williamstown Theater Festival, features a younger leading lady than is traditionally cast in the play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PM[SHARE]"Into the Woods," the 1987 musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, is staged in Central Park in a revival by the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]"Bullet for Adolf" at New World Stages, by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, explores ethnicity as a shifting and surprising equation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]In praise of risk-taking in the theater: To give audiences views of things they've never seen before, great actors and actresses go out on a limb.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05PM[SHARE]The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's production of "Love's Labour's Lost" brings to mind the fast-paced escapist fare of Depression- and wartime-era Hollywood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:27PM[SHARE]Olympia Dukakis stars in Shakespeare & Company's jolly, quirky and unusually cozy production of "The Tempest."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:16PM[SHARE]Love has no dignity in the Sydney Theater Company's glorious production of "Uncle Vanya," starring Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:31PM[SHARE]"Dogfight," a musical at Second Stage Theater based on the 1991 film of the same name, follows a group of young Marines as they celebrate their last evening stateside.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of "Fela!" is about a lot of individual performances " every single dancer, singer and band member " forming a collective whole in which singular style is never sacrific…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Playwrights throughout the ages, as different as Brecht and Thornton Wilder, have adapted choruses to their own latter-day purposes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:28PM[SHARE]In Britain the Belarus Free Theater's "Minsk, 2011: A Reply to Kathy Acker" depicts sex as a magnet for political repression, while Philip Ridley's "Mercury Fur" prepares a party in a lawles…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:57PM[SHARE]Joe Penhall's new play "Birthday" offers a childbearing role reversal that targets sexual stereotypes, medical services and the nature of marriage.
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