Thursday, April 28, 2011
Watching the stage adaptation of "Autumn Sonata" at the Yale Repertory Theater is a bit like looking at the Ingmar Bergman movie through the wrong end of a telescope.
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Sunday, April 24, 2011
If the sexual politics in the revival of the 1946 play "Born Yesterday" still carry a whiff of the postwar years, the political resonance could scarcely be more potent.
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"Sister Act," based on the hit movie, offers tunes that echo the Philadelphia sound and a stage full of nuns flaring their gams like the Rockettes.
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Sunday, April 17, 2011
"Wonderland," a peppy new Broadway musical inspired by Lewis Carroll's books, is a contemporary parable about reconnecting with your inner child.
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Tuesday, April 12, 2011
In David Greenspan's new play, "Go Back to Where You Are," he is also an actor, playing a demon traveling through time on a mission of salvation.
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"Bring Us the Head of Your Daughter," from the frisky downtown troupe the Amoralists, doesn't make much dramatic capital from its outrageous conceit.
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"We're Gonna Die" is a bizarre combination of pop concert and autobiographical lament for the human condition, written and performed by Young Jean Lee.
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The childhood pain and grown-up accusations of one sibling and the responses, or lack thereof, from other family members are central to the tension of "Born Bad."
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At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a different brand of "Macbeth" " one less imposing and more unsure " still suffers from an excess of ambition.
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Thursday, March 31, 2011
"Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" is a powerful new drama by Rajiv Joseph, in which Robin Williams embodies the creature who becomes the play's questioning conscience.
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Wednesday, March 23, 2011
The sudden death of a high school student shapes "The Dream of the Burning Boy," an eloquent, affecting new play by the newcomer David West Read.
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John Leguizamo's new solo Broadway show recounts his personal and professional travails growing up in Queens and making it in show business.
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"Kin," Bathsheba Doran's exquisitely wrought comedy-drama, depicts a daisy chain of relationships while moving through a couple of generations and across several American states and two coun…
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"Priscilla Queen of the Desert," a hyperactively splashy musical, wants so desperately to give audiences a good time that the results are oddly enervating.
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Thursday, March 17, 2011
The months of March and April are traditionally the busiest of the theater season, and this spring's crop seems more robust than usual. A whopping 13 shows are opening on Broadway in April -…
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In "Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony" the tart-tongued comic combines insider access to the world of the famous (or at least the pseudo-famous) and her willingness to be frank about its inhabitant…
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In "Little Miss Sunshine," a chipper and polished but oppressively cute musical, the indomitable Hoover clan sings down even the specter of sudden death.
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Thursday, March 3, 2011
Tuesday, March 1, 2011
The Public Theater's new production of "Timon of Athens," the inaugural Shakespeare Lab presentation from the company, stars Richard Thomas.
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