Thursday, May 3, 2012
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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"An Early History of Fire," a tumultuous work that has been given a surprisingly flat production by the New Group, is the first new play in a decade from David Rabe.
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Wednesday, April 25, 2012
"The Columnist," by David Auburn, stars John Lithgow in the title role, portraying Joseph Alsop, who wielded power in mid-20th-century Washington.
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"Nice Work if You Can Get It" is a homage to a host of Jazz Age musicals in which outlandish plots were mere pegboards for songs, dances, gags and idiosyncratic star turns.
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"The Lyons," Nicky Silver's acerbic comedy about an aging dysfunctional family, features Dick Latessa as the father who's dying, and Linda Lavin as the mother who seems O.K. with that.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]TR Warszawa's troupe brings "Festen" to St. Ann's Warehouse, with a set that " appropriately enough " conjures the hotel from "The Shining."
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Thursday, April 19, 2012
Wednesday, April 18, 2012
Monday, April 16, 2012
Sunday, April 15, 2012
"Peter and the Starcatcher," directed on Broadway by Roger Rees and Alex Timbers, delivers locomotive Steampunk in the origin story of Peter Pan.
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Thursday, April 5, 2012
Monday, April 2, 2012
As befits a play about Judy Garland, a woman known for liberally mixing her pills, Peter Quilter's "End of the Rainbow" is a jolting upper and downer at the same time.
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"Newsies the Musical," based on a 1992 Disney movie about the 1899 New York newsboy strike, teems with defiant ragamuffins, anthems and back flips.
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Wednesday, March 21, 2012
Ethan Lipton recreates the anxieties and epiphanies of an unemployed worker in his new show, "No Place to Go," at Joe's Pub at the Public Theater.
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"Once," based on a hit movie about two musicians, an Irishman and a Czech, who fall in love, reaches Broadway after an Off Broadway run.
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In "Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman," starring Philip Seymour Hoffman, the director Mike Nichols has created an immaculate monument to a great American play.
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Thursday, March 8, 2012
Sidney Goldfarb's "Hot Lunch Apostles" at La MaMa is set in a destitute age " the 21st century " in which people will do anything to put food on their tables.
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Sunday, March 4, 2012
Thursday, March 1, 2012
The musical "Carrie," a famous Broadway flop, has been revived at the Lucille Lortel Theater, in a production that is characterized by, uh, good taste.
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In "Hurt Village," an African-American family preparing to leave a shabby apartment in a housing project for a newer home encounters plenty of barriers, inside and out.
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Thursday, February 23, 2012
Amid theater's smaller, potent plays about the working and middle classes, thank goodness there's still room for glittery musicals about Evita Peron, Judy Garland and Jesus Christ.
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