Thursday, September 5, 2013
"The Hill Town Plays," the cycle of five dramas by Lucy Thurber set in rural western Massachusetts, is filled with drinking, violence, misguided sex and other troubling activity. …
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Wednesday, August 21, 2013
Thursday, August 15, 2013
"Soul Doctor," a musical starring Eric Anderson about the life of Shlomo Carlebach, the folk-singing rabbi, has opened at Circle in the Square.
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The Chicago theater scene inspires a deep-rooted loyalty, and this summer, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer, who went on to TV and film, have returned.
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Tuesday, August 6, 2013
The director Mary Zimmerman takes an understated approach in her retelling of "The Jungle Book," adapted from the Disney movie (and Kipling), at the Goodman Theater.
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Thursday, July 25, 2013
"Murder for Two," a new two-performer musical produced by Second Stage Theater's Uptown series, uses its actor-doubling to daffy effects.
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A philosophy grad student is entangled in the silly world of competitive reality television in "Nobody Loves You," a musical at Second Stage Theater.
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John Malkovich, who starred in a film version of "Les Liaisons Dangereuses," has directed a French-language production of the English-language play.
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"The Cradle Will Rock," Marc Blitzstein's 1937 musical, a proud artifact of theater as agitprop, gets a robust if spare revival at City Center.
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The Complicite production of "Shun-kin" uses puppetry, traditional performance, music and design to convey coolly a steamy Japanese tale at the Lincoln Center Festival. &nbs…
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"Monkey: Journey to the West" turns an Asian fable of a furry enlightenment-seeker into a spectacle combining animation, martial arts and acrobatics.
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Thursday, June 27, 2013
In "The Unavoidable Disappearance of Tom Durkin," a man tries to re-enter his family's life after serving time for defrauding investors.
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Tuesday, June 18, 2013
The Shakespeare in the Park production of "The Comedy of Errors," directed by Daniel Sullivan, moves this mistaken-identity farce to a locale straight out of "Guys and Dolls." &nb…
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In Daniel Pearle's new drama, "A Kid Like Jake," two parents fret over getting their preschooler into private school and whether his fascination with princesses means that he may be gay.&nbs…
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Father and daughter, art and athletics, with Charles Ives as a fantastical referee in Jessica Dickey's "Charles Ives Take Me Home," at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
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John Guare has written, and appears in, "3 Kinds of Exile," a triptych of plays that includes one about the life of the Polish actress Elzbieta Czyzewska.
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Susan Sontag, public intellectual, is portrayed as a teenager and a woman in "Sontag: Reborn," a one-woman show with video at New York Theater Workshop.
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In "The Tutors," written by Erica Lipez and directed by Thomas Kail, founders of a Web site that isn't quite Facebook struggle to get by.
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Rod McLachlan's new play, "Good Television," goes behind the scenes with the creators and subjects of a reality show about addiction.
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Christopher Lloyd stars in "The Caucasian Chalk Circle," a fablelike play by Bertolt Brecht about a woman who impulsively adopts a baby abandoned by its mother.
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