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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Monday, February 20, 2012
"I Killed My Mother" is the tale of a Romanian orphan who grew up in a strict institution where she had one friend, a boy who taught her the art of turning people into stone.
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In "And God Created Great Whales," Rinde Eckert reprises his role as a composer who is losing his memory and struggling to finish an opera based on "Moby-Dick."
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In a revival of Paula Vogel's "How I Learned to Drive," Norbert Leo Butz stars in one of the most discomfiting love stories to emerge from the American theater.
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The first production of this season's Encores! series, Stephen Sondheim and Gorge Furth's "Merrily We Roll Along," comes across as oddly quaint and self-conscious.
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The zippy new National Theater production of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" is a clear reconception, while the Young Vic's hot-and-sticky new interpretation of "The Changeling," a Jacobean…
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Several current British productions, including "Lovesong," "Travelling Light" and "The Kreutzer Sonata," feature characters who recall earlier times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:17PM[SHARE]God save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
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Abi Morgan's "Lovesong" is playing at London's Lyric Hammersmith Theater, which is probably the wettest house in town, given all the tears being shed there.
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Reviews of three productions at very small theaters in London, notably the two-character drama "Constellations," starring Sally Hawkins and Rafe Spall.
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Wednesday, January 18, 2012
Tuesday, January 17, 2012
Monday, January 16, 2012
Jay Scheib's "World of Wires," at the Kitchen, is part of a performance trilogy about the mind-scrambling overlap of natural and technology-generated worlds.
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Audra McDonald brings thunder to "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess," a stripped-down version of the original opera, at the Richard Rodgers Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]Can film and theater live happily together in the same room? More and more recently these two separate (and arguably equal) art forms are attempting to practice cohabitation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PM[SHARE]Sunday, January 8, 2012
The monologuist Daniel Kitson returns to St. Ann's Warehouse with a one-man show about two people who never knew each other in 19th-century England.
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In Gob Squad's "Super Night Shot," part of the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, passers-by are enlisted to appear in an instant film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:49PM[SHARE]"Hot Pepper, Air Conditioner, and the Farewell Speech," a triptych of short plays that is being performed as part of the Under the Radar festival, is written and directed in hypnotic style b…
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"Alexis. A Greek Tragedy," a production of the Italian troupe Motus at the Under the Radar festival, is an invigorating portrait of youthful rebellion in contemporary Greece.
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A look at some of the theatrical offerings of 2012, including Kevin Spacey in "Richard III," Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis in "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" and a revival of "Merrily We Rol…
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Wednesday, December 14, 2011
"Lysistrata Jones" is a throwback to the perishable good-time musicals in which peppy kids delivered of-the-moment jokes and lively dances.
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A new version of "On a Clear Day You Can See Forever" appears to have given everyone who appears in it " including its charismatic star, Harry Connick Jr. " a moaning case of the deep-dyed b…
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