Monday, June 16, 2014
Jack O'Brien's pleasure-filled production of "Much Ado About Nothing" in Central Park pits Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater as Shakespeare's sparring partners Beatrice and Benedick.
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"Ayckburn Ensemble," a medley of plays by Alan Ayckbourn at 59E59 Theaters, offers a rich opportunity to explore the sadness of his antic consumerist characters.
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In "Fly by Night," the new musical at Playwrights Horizons, a New York sandwich maker finds himself drawn to two sisters with very different goals.
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"The Village Bike," Penelope Skinner's play at the Lucille Lortel Theater, centers on a lonely pregnant woman whose growing obsession with sex takes her and other characters to dark places.
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Rob Ashford and Kenneth Branagh's staging of "Macbeth" at the Park Avenue Armory is a speeding juggernaut for two intermissionless hours.
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"Arrivals & Departures," part of a trio of Alan Ayckbourn plays running in rep as part of Brits Off Broadway, is a comedy that delves into counterterrorism.
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Wednesday, May 28, 2014
The Brits Off Broadway festival is celebrating this peerlessly fertile writer's three-quarters of a century with a repertory of three productions.
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Linda Lavin stars as an actress who descends on her daughter's break from the city in Nicky Silver's "Too Much Sun," at the Vineyard Theater.
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They weren't nominating many movie stars for Tony Awards this year, maybe because those celebrities did such a good job of working like real actors instead.
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"Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!," the latest incarnation of the long-running satirical revue, addresses signs of a theater season notably lacking in fresh material.
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Thursday, May 1, 2014
"Here Lies Love," the poperetta conceived by David Byrne about the rise and fall of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, has returned to the Public Theater.
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In Anthony Giardina's "The City of Conversation," at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, Jan Maxwell portrays a Washington political hostess.
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Wednesday, April 23, 2014
"Casa Valentina," written by Harvey Fierstein, tells of cross-dressing men who frequent a Catskills resort that caters to them in the early 1960s.
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Sunday, April 20, 2014
Thursday, April 17, 2014
"Act One" at Lincoln Center stars Tony Shalhoub and Santino Fontana and Matthew Schechter as the theater artisan Moss Hart, from his Bronx childhood to Broadway glory.
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James Franco and Chris O'Dowd both make Broadway debuts in the respectable, respectful and generally inert revival of John Steinbeck's "Of Mice and Men."
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Sunday, April 13, 2014
In Richard Maxwell's "Isolde," plans by a contractor and an actress to build the perfect vacation home become complicated by a love triangle as primal instincts rise to the surface.
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"Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical," inspired buy Woody Allen's 1994 film of the same title, is instructive for those determined to translate screen chemistry into crowd-wowing live theater.
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Starring Denzel Washington, "A Raisin in the Sun" at the Ethel Barrymore Theater is a disarmingly relaxed revival, brimming with empathy for its flawed characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Encores! production of "The Most Happy Fella," led by Shuler Hensley and Laura Benanti, is an unabashed hymn of hope to fresh starts and quickened feelings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:17PM[SHARE]in honor of Irma's 30th anniversary, Red Bull Theater is presenting this fractured classic in a production directed by Everett Quinton, who starred (with Ludlam) in the original. A promising…
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Red Bull Theater is presenting Charles Ludlam's "The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful" in a production directed by Everett Quinton.
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"Heathers: The Musical" recalls an era when killing off the leaders of a high school's reigning clique could still seem like a joke.
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