Theatre Of The Real And Embracing The Politics Of The Current Moment: Lee Hall And Ivo van Hove’s “Network”
“Man can change the world with bayonet and with science, but only art can renew it, in play, in...
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Fiona Shaw Performs “The Waste Land” In Madison Square Park
At the risk of throwing a wrench in your schedule, you really do have to drop everything (for the...
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On Broadway, “Burn This” Singes the Frayed Nerves of 20th Century Romance
“I’m being pillaged and raped. I’m being pillaged and I’m being raped. And I don’t like it,” says...
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World Premiere of Georgina Escobar’s “Then They Forgot About The Rest” Delivers Frontier Futura Funk
What lengths would you go to forget about the greatest pain of your life? Losing a child, a...
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Necromancers of the Public Domain: Art Both Free and Liberating
In 1919, following the devastation of the First World War, a movement arose to aid in the...
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Finding Leonardo
Words that should mean something were thrown across the stage as a light beam, giving a glimpse of hope that somehow, music or singer will communicate a genius who saw ugliness in his fellow human yet wanted to please, to serve them, who wrote he was never tired of serving, pleasing.No, that did not happen.
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We Shall Never See So Much (On Broadway): Glenda Jackson Is King Lear
Emily Sun begins her book Succeeding King Lear with words from the philosopher of...
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On Broadway, “Ain’t Too Proud” Runs Away with The Temptations
The jukebox musical isn’t so named merely for its carousel of beloved pop tunes. It also puts to...
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“Norma Jeane Baker Of Troy” At The Shed
If gender, as we’re often told, is a construct, then some women are skyscrapers. These are the...
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and everybody goes “Awww!”: The Mad Ones’ “Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie”
How do I love Mrs. Murray’s Menagerie? Let me count the ways. Extraordinary attention to detail,...
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Kate Now and Then
In the winter of 1977, at age 17, I played Petruchio/Fred Graham in a Kiss Me, Kate production at...
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On Broadway, “What The Constitution Means To Me” Exorcises A Troubled American Ethos
In Heidi Schreck’s hands rests a divine power which only the best of storytellers wield to purge...
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David Herskovits’ “Marjana And The Forty Thieves”
You know The Thousand And One Nights both better and worse than you realize. You may know it by a...
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“El Coronel No Tiene Quien Le Escriba” At Harlem Stage
Creating riveting theater out of the problem of a bureaucratic oversight is no easy feat. Luckily...
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Sasha Velour’s “Smoke & Mirrors”: Long Live The Queen
Is Sasha Velour a drag queen? It’s debatable. She’s certainly a drag royalty, having won the ninth...
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At the Barrow Group, “Perp” Is An Intimate, Challenging Look at Disability That Must Be Seen
We tend to think of disability as unlike other monuments of cultural identity, like race or...
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Goof Troupe: Little Lord’s “Skinnamarink”
Sport is sometimes defined as a task with arbitrary but necessary constraints. Education is never...
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On Broadway, “Kiss Me, Kate” Is True To Fashion, For Better Or Worse
Anyone who tells you that Cole Porter’s Kiss Me, Kate isn’t, or can’t be, a kick in the teeth to...
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“Skinnamarink” at Next Door at NYTW
Skinnamarink is a deliriously diverting new production by Little Lord, a performance ensemble that...
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Theatre Of The Real And Embracing The Politics Of The Current Moment: Heidi Schreck’s “What The Constitution Means To Me”
“Man can change the world with bayonet and with science, but only art can renew it, in play, in...
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