Monday, October 23, 2017
As a Manhattan therapist, Alison Fraser may seem composed. But when she tells her story, Aaron Mark's ghoulish monologue earns its title.
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Tuesday, October 17, 2017
David Henry Hwang has reworked his gender-blurring, career-launching Tony-winning play to assure that it feels "resonant with the culture today."
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Diana Oh's rambunctious show is more a concert with storytelling than a play, but that doesn't make it any less heartfelt, joyous or necessary
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Seeing Sarah Ruhl's "For Peter Pan" reminds a critic of her own father and why she turns to theater to "confront the hard stuff," like grieving his death.
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Bringing together wrestlers, a food cart, a cellist and a bandstand, Pig Iron Theater Company takes on catastrophe in "A Period of Animate Existence."
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Monday, September 18, 2017
The National Black Theater production of Liza Jessie Peterson's monologue explores the personal and societal costs of mass incarceration.
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Tuesday, September 5, 2017
A plantation-set adaptation of "The Cherry Orchard" and a scatological monologue are visceral reminders of theater's power to unsettle.
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Wednesday, August 23, 2017
Medora, N.D., population 132 " except in summer when 100,000 tourists pour into town to see a musical celebration of Old West values.
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Friday, August 11, 2017
Monday, July 31, 2017
A program of 10 short pieces, set in and around Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, touches on tennis, dragon boats and the 1939 World's Fair.
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At the New York Musical Festival, a love story plays out in a divided Berlin, and women entangled in suburban soccer-mom life become the center of another drama.
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James Smith's solo show, part of Soulpepper's New York residency, examines his family's history of disorders with a striking lack of bitterness.
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Howard Barker's BBC teleplay is being professionally staged for the first time, thanks to Potomac Theater Project, which has regularly mounted his work.
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This Wooster Group production, inspired by Tadeusz Kantor and his play "I Shall Never Return," is an esoteric project that fails to connect with its audience.
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Thursday, July 13, 2017
Wednesday, July 12, 2017
Wednesday, June 28, 2017
Monday, June 26, 2017
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
For Soulpepper Theater Company, putting on 30 productions at home won't do this year. The Toronto troupe is also programming a New York theater center for July.
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For an adaptation of "The Bacchae," the Stratford Festival hired Tonia Sina, who teaches a codified method of approaching onstage intimacy.
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After a bracing revival of "The Glass Menagerie" this spring, and last year's "Othello," Mr. Gold takes on another Shakespeare drama.
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Thursday, June 8, 2017
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