Friday, April 13, 2012
Emily Dickinson's words "Remorse is memory awake" takes on grisly new meaning in Jose Rivera's new play
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Simon Callow cogently explores what Shakespeare achieved andexperienced in his lifetime. .
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Theatre for a New Audience's production takes us back to the American frontier of the late 19th century, and gives Shakespeare's knockabout farce a fresh pioneer spirit
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The financial crisis blues has arrived at Joe's Pub with Ethan Lipton's funny personal ode to the unemployed.
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Jeffrey Sweet's protagonists aren't as well-known as the iconic Rosa Parks, but his 90-minute drama shows them to be cut from the same cloth.. . .
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Denis O'Hare and Lisa Peterson have turned Homer's epic war poem into a spell-binding performance piece.
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Monday, January 30, 2012
As re-envisioned by Sean Graney this heaping serving of Sophocles' dramas makes for a vitally alive experience . . .
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watching the American Theatre of Actors' new uncut version of Shakespeare's tragic masterpiece,you may discover that the play you thought you knew like the back of your hand is more Hydra-he…
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The Gob Squad returns to the Public for a beyond the Under the Radar Festival run
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Judith Malina's History of the World takes theatergoers on a whirlwind tour of history. But in compressing thousands of years into less than two hours, its historical personages get the dime…
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Sontag Reborn and Goodbar launch our Festival sampling
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How do you winkle out the magic and the thought behind Hamlet? Scott Elliott, the Artistic Director of The New Group did just that as part of the enjoyable "Dark Nights at The New Group" ser…
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A rare and very brief opportunity to see Shakespeare's bloodiest play
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Our Review of the film that challenges Shakespeare's authorship.
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Actors Martin Rayner and Mark H. Dold are delighted to discover that New York theatergoers are cueing up in large numbers at the box office at New World Stages to get tickets to FREUD'S LAST…
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Karin Coonrod has chosen n a mode that embraces both the past and the present which works as well as any pseudo-historical time in the Public's wonderfully affordable LAB production
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Under Alex Roe's intelligent direction, this old melodrama about economic stagnation is right on the money
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Fiasco's no-tricks-up-its-sleeve production puts Shakespeare's convoluted play within delightful reach of an audience
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part of the Royal Shakespeare Company's 5-play smash hit at the Armory
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The popular children's book series translates into a fun musical . . .
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Sunday, May 15, 2011
urtainup's critic found her 3-hour visit with Shakespeare's tragic brainchild dressed in Hitchcock's noir clothing both exhausting and exhilarating. It's been extended to June 25th
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Shakespeare's powerful late romance, is being disappointingly resuscitated by the Target Margin Theater. . .
SOURCE: CurtainUp at 11:22PM[SHARE]Sunday, May 8, 2011
Happily, this British transfer doesn't get swallowed up in the cavernous Harvey Theater and Derek Jacoby's Lear is unforgettable.
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The Frog and Peach Company adds to its Shakespeare Oevre . . .
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The Acting Company adds a Chaplinesque twist to Shakespeare's farce . . .
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Friday, April 1, 2011
With John Douglas Thompson as the tragic protagonist, the dramatic equation of the work has shifted significantly.
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