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New York City has never looked cleaner than it does in "If/Then," the gleaming drawing board of a musical that opened on Broadway, starring the shiny-voiced Idina Menzel. &n…
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The Theater for a New Audience production of "King Lear," directed by Arin Arbus, brings a quieter-than-normal touch to Shakespeare's tale of chaos in a kingdom and a family. &nbs…
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"Uriel Acosta: I Want That Man!," at Target Margin Theater, draws on past productions of this play inspired by the life of a 17th-century Jewish philosopher and skeptic. &nb…
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In Terrence McNally's new play, "Mothers and Sons," Tyne Daly's character has an uncomfortable reunion with Frederick Weller's, who was her son's lover.
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"Tales From Red Vienna," David Grimm's new play, set in 1920 Austria, throws together a widowed gentlewoman and a brash Hungarian journalist.
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The performance artists Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser unfold a bona fide X-rated fairy tale in "Beauty and the Beast," at the Abrons Arts Center.
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In "Appropriate," the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins brings together dissatisfied relatives for one last angry feast of guilt and recrimination.
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"Rocky," the mostly torpid new musical at the Winter Garden Theater, counts on its audience's residual affection for the film on which it is based.
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Wednesday, March 5, 2014
Tarell Alvin McCraney's squishy, misbegotten "Antony and Cleopatra" resets Shakespeare's tragedy on the island of Hispaniola during the reign of the French.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]The performance and burlesque artists Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser are appearing in "Beauty and the Beast." But don't expect G-rated material.
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Even the jerks become likable in Fiasco Theater's charming production of "Measure for Measure," one of Shakespeare's creepiest plays.
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In the Young Vic's production of "A Doll's House," at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, Hattie Morahan brings out Nora's manipulative side.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, February 20, 2014
Kelli O'Hara confirms her position as one of the most exquisitely expressive stars in musical theater in "The Bridges of Madison County" on Broadway.
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Caryl Churchill's new play, "Love and Information," unfolds with miniplots that deal with the ways we lust for, process and reject knowledge.
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In Charles Busch's "The Tribute Artist," a female impersonator assumes the identity of his dead landlady to keep his coveted Greenwich Village apartment.
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The 1962 musical "Little Me," starring Rachel York, Judy Kaye and Christian Borle, begins the season for the Encores! concert revival series.
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Monday, February 3, 2014
The playwright Christina Masciotti puts together a father and college-age daughter in the gentle comedy "Adult" at Abrons Arts Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PM[SHARE]Thursday, January 30, 2014
Jude Law, David Tennant and Tom Hiddleston have recently lent a screen-god glow to Shakespeare's portraits of uncommon men, creating the hardest tickets to get in London. &n…
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Sunday, January 26, 2014
Thursday, January 23, 2014
The Menier Chocolate Factory's production of the famously hard-to-stage musical "Candide" suggests that life may just be endurable " as long as we have the pluck to put on a show about how a…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:10PM[SHARE]Wednesday, January 22, 2014
Hilary Mantel's best-selling novels about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII have been adapted for the stage at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PM[SHARE]A revival of Jez Butterworth's 1995 "Mojo," with Ben Whishaw, and three Beckett monologues "Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby" are reminders of the complex artistry required to distill words into live…
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Two dark new London musicals, "Stephen Ward," about the 1963 Profumo scandal, and "American Psycho," show men and their libidos behaving badly.
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