Sunday, June 9, 2024
In the playwright's début film, "Janet Planet," Julianne Nicholson stars as an object of obsession for her daughter"and everyone else"over the course of a long, hot summer in the Berkshires.
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Superb stagecraft illuminates Robert Ickes's "Player Kings," Benedict Andrews's "The Cherry Orchard," and Ian Rickson's "London Tide."
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Paula Vogel's "Mother Play," Shaina Taub's "Suffs," and Amy Herzog's "Mary Jane" strike back at the mother-as-monster dramatic trope.
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David Adjmi's cult-hit play features seventies-inspired rock songs by Will Butler, while Eddie Redmayne presides over a demonic version of the Kit Kat Club.
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Thursday, March 28, 2024
The 1993 musical's already bizarre story, derived from Pete Townshend's beautiful 1969 album, is even less clear in Des McAnuff's reanimation for Broadway.
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Thursday, February 22, 2024
Dominique Morisseau revives her 2012 drama about a daughter, part revolutionary, part survivor, whose father devoted his life to the struggle for Black liberation.
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Sarah Gancher's "Russian Troll Farm" and Sasha Denisova's "My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion" look for truth in a world of lies.
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With "Bark of Millions," "Oh, Mary!," and "Aristotle Thinks Again," the fabulousness on New York's stages seems to have reached a critical mass.
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At the first rehearsal for Suzanne Bocanegra's "Bodycast," Ruth Negga practices playing Bocanegra, who practices sitting onstage and muttering lines to Negga.
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Thursday, January 11, 2024
The playwright Joshua Harmon broaches profound questions of Jewish identity in his drama, but a bigger stage and a changed moment reveal its flaws.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright's "Appropriate" investigates a dysfunctional Southern family's buried secrets.
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Friday, November 3, 2023
Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel's stately "Translations."
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
The writer David Ives and the director Joe Mantello continued without the late composer on an adaptation of two lacerating Luis Buñuel films.
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Friday, August 11, 2023
The new Broadway play, by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, imagines frequently irritable chats among the movie's three main actors, including Shaw's father, Robert Shaw.
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Monday, June 26, 2023
Helen Shaw reviews Robert Icke's adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler play, starring Juliet Stevenson as a doctor who is a target of anti-Semitism and language policing.
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Monday, June 5, 2023
James Grissom says that he met the playwright and his famous muses, and quoted them extensively in his work. Not everyone believes him.
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