Monday, January 14, 2013
"Hamlet, Prince of Grief," in the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, is a 30-minute, one-person version of "Hamlet" presented by the Leev Theater Group of Iran.
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In "Ruff" Peggy Shaw ruminates on life before and after her stroke, investigating the workings of her mind and memory in an impressionistic monologue that's admirably unsentimental.
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"C'est du Chinois," part of the Under the Radar festival, is a no-frills, no-drama production: 80 minutes of energetic language instruction, performed by a (fictional) family from Shanghai.
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Tuesday, January 8, 2013
"Water by the Spoonful," the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, at the Second Stage Theater, is a moving collage of lives in crisis.
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Wednesday, December 19, 2012
"Nothing to Hide," "Coney Island Christmas" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" each involve make-believe at varying levels of sophistication.
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Friday, December 7, 2012
Kathleen Turner plays the leading role and directs the 1964 play "The Killing of Sister George" at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.
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Lincoln Center Theater's blistering production of Clifford Odets's "Golden Boy," directed by Bartlett Sher, features a superb cast of almost 20 actors.
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In "Golden Age," Terrence McNally's latest play, he sets the action on the opening night of Bellini's opera "I Puritani," in Paris in 1835.
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By the time it closes, "Glengarry Glen Ross" will have played a full half of its run without having to face any official critical scrutiny.
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"A Christmas Story," based on the popular 1983 movie and set in Indiana in 1940, glows with sepia-toned nostalgia for a Simpler Time.
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"The Twenty-Seventh Man" is Nathan Englander's stage adaptation of his own short story about the fate that befalls a group of Jewish writers in Russia during Stalin's rule.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]The Signature Theater's revival of August Wilson's "Piano Lesson" brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theater can be.
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"We Are Proud to Present a Presentation," at SoHo Rep, puts the audience square in the middle of deliberations over how to put on this play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:11PM[SHARE]"Donka: A Letter to Chekhov," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is a theatrical curio that might have made Chekhov smile. But that may be the only real relationship it has with that great wr…
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"Scandalous" tells the story of Aimee Semple McPherson, a celebrity preacher in the 1920s and '30s who helped lay the foundations on which the modern evangelical movement was built.
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A revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" at Studio 54 offers a chance to play detective and enjoy a cast, including Chita Rivera, that throws itself into the winking spirit of the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PM[SHARE]In "Golden Child," a rural Chinese household's fragile equilibrium, kept in place by tradition, is threatened when a husband returns from abroad with new ideas.
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"Emotional Creature," written by Eve Ensler, uses monologues and other devices to explore the complexity of girls and young women worldwide.
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There may be no more startling image on a New York stage right now than the one greeting audiences at Playwrights Horizons when the lights go up on "The Whale," an affecting new drama by Sam…
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