
Over the New Year's weekend I took a breather from the theater that left me feeling blissfully reenergized.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:41PM[SHARE]A look at some of the theatrical offerings of 2012, including Kevin Spacey in "Richard III," Audra McDonald and Norm Lewis in "The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" and a revival of "Merrily We Rol…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:20PM[SHARE]When my parents come to town, we sample the city's restaurants in five-day, two-big-meals-a-day binges that have become something of a legend among friends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:57PM[SHARE]The clunker title isn't the only nonworking part in "Close Up Space," a new play by Molly Smith Metzler.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]Some reflections, assessments and fantastical fake awards for the year in theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PM[SHARE]Charles Isherwood lists the plays that made his favorite nights at the theater in 2011.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PM[SHARE]A Public Lab production of "Titus Andronicus" is a careering pileup of gothic horrors in which great ingenuity is shown in violent murder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]"But then I met James Lapine." Thus ends, on a cliffhanger worthy of an artist who cherishes a passion for mystery tales, the first volume of Stephen Sondheim's collected lyrics, published l…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AM[SHARE]There are plenty of staggering secrets eager for the telling in "Stick Fly," a juicy family drama by Lydia R. Diamond.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]"Krapp's Last Tape," by Samuel Beckett, stars John Hurt as a 69-year-old man celebrating his birthday by reassessing a passage in his life from some 30 years before, captured on a tape recor…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]The second volume of Stephen Sondheim's collected lyrics, "Look, I Made a Hat," describes his collaborations with James Lapine as a vital artistic renewal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PM[SHARE]In Jordan Harrison's play "Maple and Vine," stressed-out New Yorkers move into a community that tries to recreate the 1950s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]"Neighbourhood Watch," part of the annual Brits Off Broadway festival, will probably not be ranked high among Alan Ayckbourn's staggering output.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]The Atlantic Theater Company is presenting "Happy Hour," a wearying evening of short plays by Ethan Coen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]Alan Alda's play about Marie Curie often feels like a talking diorama in a science museum, at least until it makes a sudden leap into juicy, gaslit melodrama in the second act.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:00PM[SHARE]Gift books for theatergoers: "Look, I Made a Hat," by Stephen Sondheim; "The Journals of Spalding Gray," edited by Nell Casey; and "Wendy and the Lost Boys," by Julie Salamon.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:14AM[SHARE]Breathtaking displays of gymnastics are the primary delights in "Bring It On: The Musical," a show about competing high-school cheerleading squads that is at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Ange…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PM[SHARE]"Blood and Gifts" centers on intelligence officers from the United States, Britain, Pakistan and the Soviet Union involved in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PM[SHARE]Watching "An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin" is a bit like riding a wooden roller coaster: one minute you're levitating with exhilaration, the next you're clinging to your seat…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]Talkback on what "Funny Girl" cancellation portends
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PM[SHARE]"Fragments," an evening of Samuel Beckett's short works presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, aims to reaffirm the ripe vein of humor in his vision.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:29PM[SHARE]"Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays" is a collection of monologues and short plays that celebrate the recent advances in winning marital rights for gay and lesbian couples.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]The Devil is a sock puppet in "Hand to God," a foul-mouthed, fun-packed play about the urges that drive good men (and women, and boys) to dirty deeds.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:37PM[SHARE]"The Blue Flower," at Second Stage Theater, is a high-minded muddle of a musical that may leave you scratching your head.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]"Venus in Fur," David Ives's sexy comedy, has opened on Broadway with Hugh Dancy and Nina Arianda, who is giving the first must-see performance of the Broadway season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]Julia Brownell's "All-American" is about a high school football player who happens to be a girl.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]The Broadway revival of "Godspell"is like being trapped in a summer camp rec room with a bunch of kids who have been a little too reckless with the Red Bull.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Amy Herzog's "Belleville" is a heartbreaking and hair-raising new play at Yale Repertory Theater about a young American couple living in Paris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:39PM[SHARE]Are actors who write plays getting an unfair boost in seeing their work produced, even before it's ready?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:21PM[SHARE]Andrew Hinderaker's "Suicide, Incorporated" is a dark comedy that evolves into a more sober drama about the painful legacies that suicide can leave behind.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM[SHARE]In "Milk Like Sugar," three teenagers concoct a triple pregnancy plan to get baby shower loot like Coach diaper bags and little pink Jordans.
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