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.
SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 06:00AM[SHARE]Friday, May 12, 2023
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's "Here Lies Love" on Broadway, Ato Blankson-Wood's "Hamlet" in the Park, Robert Icke's "The Doctor," and more.
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In a new production of "Camelot," reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher, Arthur is more perfect than ever. But this iteration of the hero's kingdom isn't worthy of him.
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Experimental theatre and soap tropes commune in Julia Izumi's "Regretfully, So the Birds Are" and Michael R. Jackson's "White Girl in Danger."
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Jamie Lloyd's ascetic production of Ibsen's 1879 drama eliminates nearly every conventional marker of character, location, or gesture.
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Nathan Lane and Danny Burstein rely on shtick in Sharr White's adaptation of Larry Sultan's book, while Norbert Leo Butz can't save the musical "Cornelia Street."
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The actor, a fixture of New York's experimental-theatre scene, did not "become" his characters; he stood, somehow, next to them, amused and delighted.
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Tuesday, January 17, 2023
Recent shows' visions of the future haven't exactly been post-apocalyptic, with the violence and darkness that term implies. Instead, they have delighted in our disappearance, savored it.
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Sunday, December 18, 2022
The playwright and author discusses preshow rituals, throbbing anger, tenderness, and her new play, "Becky Nurse of Salem."
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In a full-tilt production at BAM, Lars Eidinger gives the sad prince a punk, chaotic edge and turns familiar tragedy into Dionysian revel.
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A stage adaptation, at BAM, crams Hanya Yanagihara's sprawling novel into a single evening"not without some violence.
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In 2003, the Mint produced Lawrence's 1913 drama The Daughter-in-Law; in 2009, it was the bleaker The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Now they return to The Daughter-in-Law, a strange and compelli…
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The downtown theater company is in crisis.
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Thursday, July 18, 2019
A new leader is about to take over from the Williamsburg theater's founders. A festival there now offers a sense of her transgressive, slightly bonkers vision (sour cream included).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PM[SHARE]Sunday, April 7, 2019
Despite the lack of a samovar and wistful-looking birches, Aaron Posner's engaging Life Sucks."the period is part of the title"is closely mapped onto Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. In the haze…
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