Dysfunctional Since Before It Was Cool
The playwright Christopher Durang talks about being ahead of the “dysfunctional” curve, tangling with Catholicism and missing Wendy Wasserstein.
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Selling His Soul for the Part
Sean Hayes is making his New York stage debut in the Encores! revival of “Damn Yankees.”
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Film: The ‘Mamma Mia!’ Factor, Times Three
“Mamma Mia!” comes to loud and flashy life on the big screen.
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Theater Review | 'The Bacchae': A Greek God and His Groupies Are Dressed to Kill
The National Theater of Scotland’s playfully irreverent staging of “The Bacchae” keeps you entertained almost to the end.
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Theaters See a Lifeline Above as Developers Pursue Midtown Opportunities
In exchange for air rights, developers in the theater district may have to follow a zoning law requiring them to enhance the theater community.
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Curtain Up | Hartford: Reviving a Legend
Tina Fabrique has been keeping alive the memory of Ella Fitzgerald with a stage show of songs and reminiscences.
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Arts and Entertainment: A Timeless Stage Backdrop
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, which performs in a tent on the grand green lawn of Boscobel Restoration, is putting on “Twelfth Night” and “Cymbeline” this summer.
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Spotlight: Relying on Her Motherly Instincts
Michele Pawk appears to be playing another toxic mom in “The Fall to Earth” at Penguin Rep this month.
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Theater Review: Clever Conceit Makes an Engaging ‘La Mancha’
At Northport’s beautifully restored John W. Engeman Theater, “Man of La Mancha Anxiety” opens the season with distinction.
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Theater Listings
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
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Arts, Briefly: Springtime for a New Musical
The Tony Award winner Idina Menzel will appear in “Nero” at Vassar College.
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Arts, Briefly: Film of ‘Passing Strange’
Spike Lee will film the Tony Award-winning musical “Passing Strange,” Entertainment Weekly reported on its Web site.
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Arts, Briefly: Grants to Compose
The Signature Theater in Arlington, Va., has received a $300,000 grant to commission musicals by young composers, The Washington Post reported.
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Theater Review | 'Marko the Prince': Balkan Tale: Blood Ties, and Ties to Home
“Marko the Prince” is an ambitious portrait of a fictional shell-shocked village on the border of Bosnia and Serbia in the summer of 1992.
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On London Stages, the Devil in Love’s Deep Blue Sea
When lovers meet on London’s stages this summer, the odds are it’s not violins they’re hearing. It’s alarm bells.
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Theater Review | 'Superior Donuts': So, How Would You Like Your Culture Clash? Joke-Filled or Sugar-Glazed?
Tracy Letts’s “August: Osage County” is a full theatrical meal. His new play, “Superior Donuts,” is a much less ambitious repast.
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The Greeks Hoist the Dramatic Flag of Scotland
The National Theater of Scotland is bringing Euripides’ “Bacchae” to New York.
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Arts, Briefly: Broadway’s Lights Will Stay On
After two and a half months of talks Actors’ Equity Association reached a tentative agreement with the Broadway League, averting a strike.
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Arts, Briefly: The Show May Go On
The Wilmette Theater hopes to come to the rescue of a beleaguered production of “Ragtime.”
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Theatrical Families Aren’t All Onstage
The theater’s family businesses stretch well beyond those who put on the shows.
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The Odds Are as Big as Their Dreams
Michael Rodgers came from California to New York City last month to defy the odds of making a living as an actor, not to defy death by pedaling a secondhand bicycle through Midtown traffic.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnote
Kristin Scott Thomas will make her Broadway debut in a production of Anton Chekhov’s “Seagull.”
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Arts, Briefly: Script Concerns Close ‘Ragtime’ Production
Citing concerns about racial sensibilities, officials of the Wilmette Park District in suburban Chicago have canceled a production of “Ragtime.”
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ArtsBeat: Spoleto Italy: French Plays, Old and New, in Festival's First Weekend
The Spoleto festival's first weekend had a heavy dose of theater, with a Gallic complexion to it.
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Not Your Mother’s Original-Cast Albums
The influence of rap and rock is being felt in a new crop of original-cast albums.
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Jozef Szajna, 86, Writer of Quiet Protest in Poland, Dies
Mr. Szajna was a playwright, set designer and theater director who through often nearly wordless productions evoked the beastliness of humanity and the oppressiveness of dictatorship.
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Arts, Briefly: Chicago Shows, Going and Coming
“Adding Machine” is closing and “The Strangerer” is opening.
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Theater Review: Where King John Gets His on the 10-Yard Line
“The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged)” is the sort of thing that might be funny even if the 12-year-olds in your neighborhood performed it.
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Theater Review: A ‘Forbidden’ Update With a Broad Appeal
The Gateway Playhouse’s absolutely first-rate production of “Forbidden Broadway” is in full swing.
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