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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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In attending "You Once Said Yes" in Camden, you are given a backpack and sent into the streets, with no further directions than, "Turn right."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PM[SHARE]Timed to coincide with the Olympics, this adaptation of the Oscar-winning film "Chariots of Fire" stirs the air without raising any adrenaline.
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"Forbidden Broadway," the satirical revue that kept theater vultures sated for nearly three decades before closing in Manhattan in 2009, is returning this summer with plenty to spoof.
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'The Duchess of Malfi,' a Jacobean tragedy that just ended its run at Old Vic in London, was written when memories of the first Queen Elizabeth were fresh. Now it provokes Ben Brantley's ref…
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"We have a long way to go before this is over," Catherine of Siena tells the audience in Kenneth Lonergan's "Medieval Play," which has knights, ladies, popes, harlots and a dozen or so explo…
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What better art than the theater, by its nature a collective experience, to consider the overlap between the individual and the communal?
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The Roundabout Theater Company's revival of "The Common Pursuit" " rather like the intellectual undergraduates portrayed onstage " never fulfills even its modest promise.
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"February House," a new musical at the Public Theater, tours a Brooklyn Heights commune where W. H. Auden, Carson McCullers and Benjamin Britten were all residents.
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I would like to make the case, officially and urgently, for the return of the sitting ovation. Because we really have reached the point where a standing ovation doesn't mean a thing.
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Paul Weitz's "Lonely, I'm Not," a damaged-boy-meets-defensive-girl story, stars a wonderfully matched, mismatched Topher Grace and Olivia Thirlby.
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The Target Margin Theater production of "Uncle Vanya" suggests a group of passionate college students who, after a long night of punch-drunk debate, have decided to act out one of their favo…
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The current revival of "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" is a reminder of the joys of smart-talking stage characters, also on display in the new works "Other Desert Cities" and "The Lyons."
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