
Inspector Sands, a smartly off-kilter British company, is making an attention-getting introduction to New York with two shows in repertory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“My Last Play” by Ed Schmidt takes place in Mr. Schmidt’s living room in Carroll Gardens.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Mummenschanz,” the granddaddy of wordless, whimsical nonsense spectacles, is back in New York for the first time since 2003, along with its beloved giant faceless puppets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Absent from the theatrical menu are original holiday dramas that are entertaining, accessible and even sentimental.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Absent from the theatrical menu are original holiday dramas that are entertaining, accessible and even sentimental.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Public Theater’s annual festival of adventurous new works stretches theatrical forms and the imagination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The Pearl Theater’s modest staging of Molière’s “Misanthrope” believes in the material’s comic power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]With each performance, the cast of “Baby Wants Candy” concoct a different musical comedy with a story idea supplied by a member of the audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“What the Public Wants,” Arnold Bennett’s 1909 play about the newspaper business, has resonance for today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Trista Baldwin’s “American Sexy,” at the Flea Theater, shows how a group of young people can interact but not connect.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Spider-Man is a wild, sexed-up, Greek mythologized train wreck. But it's Julie Taymor's train wreck, through and through.
SOURCE: Slate at 05:58PM[SHARE]Theater in the Dark, With Lights, a mini-festival in which three of his works are receiving short runs, provides an opportunity to judge whether Ashlin Halfnight has arrived.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Tina Satter’s “In the Pony Palace/Football” dissects high school football with gender-flipped casting that reveals the sport’s hidden dimensions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]“Invasion!”, a translation of a Swedish-language play at Walkerspace, revels in wordplay.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Four plays at two New York festivals, Under the Radar and Coil, offer a range of themes, styles and even language.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32AM[SHARE]Elizabeth Reaser and Justin Bartha play spouses who follow the precepts of Christian Domestic Discipline.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:14AM[SHARE]Lisa D'Amour's huge, atmospheric party of a play features bartenders, hustlers, strippers and other denizens of the city.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:45PM[SHARE]The Annoyance Theater, long a staple of the Chicago improv scene, has brought comedy theater to Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31AM[SHARE]Cush Jumbo brings her solo show "Josephine and I" to New York, playing the American performer Josephine Baker.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PM[SHARE]As Mr. David's opening night for "Fish in the Dark" approaches, he bemoans the play's enormous advance ticket sales as "a terrible thing."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM[SHARE]What distinguishes acts like Sebastian Maniscalco's is a full-bodied commitment to the act-out: stand-up jargon describing a shift from narrating a joke to acting it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PM[SHARE]Larry David's new comedy, "Fish in the Dark," has established itself as the blockbuster new play of the spring season even before it begins.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PM[SHARE]January is when a glut of downtown festivals descend on New York with strange, daring and often thrilling international shows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:28PM[SHARE]"Every Brilliant Thing" arrives in New York with lots of good reviews and a high concept that sounds a bit mawkish.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:56PM[SHARE]"Father Comes Home From Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)" is a new drama by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:49PM[SHARE]Tom Stoppard's play "Indian Ink" is finally getting its Off Broadway premiere at the Roundabout Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:58PM[SHARE]"Dark Meat on a Funny Mind" recounts the highs and lows of Richard Pryor's life as a comedian.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:45PM[SHARE]Like so many spectacularly successful comic playwrights from the first half of the 20th century, George Kelly (the uncle of Grace) is mostly forgotten.
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