Thursday, October 31, 2013
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" may have earned its high berth on the Shakespeare hit parade because it's a bundle of high-spirited hijinks, but its view of love is divided. &nb…
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"The Last Goodbye," based on "Romeo and Juliet," relies on Jeff Buckley's music to supply the emotional resonance and depth of character established by Shakespeare's verse. …
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Friday, October 25, 2013
The Irish Repertory Theater revives "Juno and the Paycock," Sean O'Casey's classic about a buffeted Dublin family, with J. Smith-Cameron in the title role.
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Sunday, October 20, 2013
"A Time to Kill," a new Broadway play adapted from the John Grisham novel, moves through a tale of rape, murder and justice amid the racial tensions of the deep South.
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In "The Winslow Boy," a Terence Rattigan play now being revived by the Roundabout Theater Company, a father wages a long campaign to clear his son's name, regardless of the impact on the fam…
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"Mildred Fierce," a musical spoof of the 1945 movie "Mildred Pierce," at Theater 80 St. Marks, features the drag star Varla Jean Merman.
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Thursday, October 10, 2013
In "A Night With Janis Joplin," Mary Bridget Davies brings a positively uncanny vocal impersonation, interspersed with some quieter reflections, to Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]A country is thrown into chaos when its leaders descend into conflict in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." Does this sound slightly familiar?
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Wednesday, October 2, 2013
In "The Velocity of Autumn" at Arena Stage in Washington, Estelle Parsons is a feisty old woman who becomes an urban terrorist to avoid being forced from her Brooklyn home. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:14PM[SHARE]Times readers seemed to suggest that more often than not, theater directors are the villains when it comes to fiddling with Shakespeare's plays.
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The Actors Company Theater is presenting "Natural Affection," a play by William Inge that hasn't had a major New York revival since its Broadway premiere, in 1963.
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Wednesday, September 25, 2013
Sunday, September 22, 2013
Episodes 4.5 and 5 of "Life and Times," from Nature Theater of Oklahoma, continued over the weekend, in film and with a book modeled on early medieval illuminated manuscripts. &nb…
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Ms. Stritch, who made a dramatic exit from her home at the Carlyle Hotel this spring, is settling into her new life in Birmingham, Mich., cosmos and all.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:23PM[SHARE]Thursday, September 19, 2013
Directed and starring Robert Lepage, "The Blue Dragon," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, revisits characters first created in "The Dragons' Trilogy."
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Thursday, September 12, 2013
Black stars from two very different generations, Muhammad Ali and Stepin Fetchit, meet for advice and conflict in "Fetch Clay, Make Man."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]In "All the Faces of the Moon," Mike Daisey performs a different, highly digressive monologue each night through Oct. 3 at Joe's Pub.
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In "All the Faces of the Moon," Mike Daisey performs a different, highly digressive monologue each night through Oct. 3 at Joe's Pub.
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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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