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The talented creators of "Once," a musical inspired by the 2006 film starring Glen Hansard and Marketa Irglova, faced a big problem that they've only partly resolved.
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John Turturro and Dianne Wiest star in Andrei Belgrader's heartbreakingly funny production of Chekhov's "Cherry Orchard," at the Classic Stage Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]The electrifying Cillian Murphy seems to inhabit every millimeter of the wasteland in which he has been let loose in "Misterman," Enda Walsh's one-man play.
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"Elective Affinities," a one-woman show with Zoe Caldwell, explores an aristocratic character with a warm demeanor and a chilly heart.
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"Wild Animals You Should Know," by Thomas Higgins, centers on an erotically charged relationship among Boy Scouts at a wilderness camp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]"Seminar," a new comedy by Theresa Rebeck, concerns aspiring novelists who sign up for classes with a celebrated fiction guru, played by the droll Alan Rickman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]Thursday, November 17, 2011
Richard Eyre's revival of Noël Coward's "Private Lives," which stars Kim Cattrall and Paul Gross, is frothier, broader and sillier than its immediate Broadway predecessor.
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"Burning," Thomas Bradshaw's Off Broadway debut, is a tale of rampaging erotic impulses and misplaced artistic ambitions, set in the 1980s and the present.
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In "Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway" the impossibly talented, impossibly energetic Mr. Jackman is a glorious dinosaur among live entertainers of the 21st century: an old-fashioned matinee ido…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:57PM[SHARE]Tuesday, November 8, 2011
Bill Irwin pops up like a daffodil in February amid the gray slush of the Public Theater's "King Lear," starring Sam Waterston and directed by James Macdonald.
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Michael John LaChiusa's "Queen of the Mist" is a musical portrait of the obsessive Anna Edson Taylor, who made her name in 1901 by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
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Jon Robin Baitz's "Other Desert Cities" has moved to Broadway, where it has emerged as stronger, more sincere and more credible than in its previous incarnation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]Works of social conscience have been largely absent from the stage for, well decades. A recent batch of works marks a welcome change.
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Karin Coonrod's rowdy production of "Love's Labor's Lost," is a streamlined interpretation of Shakespeare's early comedy about men trying to do without women " and failing.
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In David Henry Hwang's "Chinglish," now on Broadway, an American businessman hoping to make his fortune in China goes through a maze of cultural confusion and linguistic blunders.
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"The Mountaintop," with Samuel L. Jackson as the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., takes place the day before Dr. King was assassinated in the motel where he spent his last night.
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The suffocating, esteem-shrinking Jewish mother, typically blamed as the root of all her children's unhappiness, is the center of "The Lyons," Nicky Silver's portrait of familial loneliness.
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The main raison d'être of the Broadway revival of Terence Rattigan's "Man and Boy" is the occasion it gives Frank Langella to explore the pathology of power.
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It's your ears that keep you awake in Robert Wilson's interpretation of Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill's "Threepenny Opera" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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"Arias With a Twist" isn't just a pocket-size, gender-inverting version of the grandeur that was Ziegfeld; it summons a century's worth of ghosts of hedonism.
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This season is bounteous with familiar characters from other chapters of dramatic literature, who were last seen in the vicinity only a decade or so ago and are being given fresh life by new…
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