Playwrites News: NYC Theater
NYT > TheaterSeveral current British productions, including ?Lovesong,? ?Travelling Light? and ?The Kreutzer Sonata,? feature characters who recall earlier times.
?These Seven Sicknesses,? a condensed adaptation of Sophocles? seven surviving plays, is being performed at the Flea Theater by its resident acting company, the Bats.
One of Broadway?s greatest flops, ?Carrie? is being dressed up, and toned down, for another onstage dance.
Mr. Gazzara?s long acting career included playing Brick in the original ?Cat on a Hot Tin Roof? on Broadway and roles in influential films by John Cassavetes.
In the Roundabout Theater revival of John Osborne?s 1956 landmark play, ?Look Back in Anger,? Matthew Rhys plays the British working-class antihero.
Beyond Broadway, possibilities for dates with a New York sweetheart include love songs, comedies, burlesque and readings in the buff.
The tempest over "Clybourne Park" vividly illustrates how small the universe of the Broadway theater really is.
God save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
The Broadway theater owner Jordan Roth on Thursday night assured the cast of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "Clybourne Park" that the show would open on Broadway in April as planned, despite the departure of two of its lead producers.
Three short plays by Foote, who died in 2009 at the age 92, will be performed together July 24-Sept. 15 under the direction of Pam MacKinnon ("Clybourne Park").
A selected guide to theater performances in New York, on and off Broadway.
A curator at the New York Public Library minutely analyzes the floppy disks left behind by Jonathan Larson, creator of the mega-hit musical "Rent.''
?Carol Channing: Larger Than Life,? a documentary by Dori Berinstein, chronicles the career of that theatrical clown ?with huge saucer eyes, gigantic red lips and a massive smile.?
?The Philanderer,? a drawing-room farce by George Bernard Shaw about ?advanced? relationships, is worth seeing, if only because of Shaw?s admission that the cad was something of a self-portrait.
?Matilda,? the hit musical in London, follows Roald Dahl?s young character as she fights a sadistic headmistress.
The theater company Van Cougar mashes up staged snippets of Hollywood war movies with testimonials from real-life veterans in ?Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din.?
John Jesurun?s ?Stopped Bridge of Dreams? has a voice that?s mad, poetic and unsettling.
In ?Russian Transport,? a relative joins a Russian-American family in Sheepshead Bay, changing the dynamic and bringing corruption.
Signature Theater Company?s new home is one of the most ambitious new cultural complexes in New York in decades.
Ms. Neway, who won a Tony for ?The Sound of Music,? was also heroine of Gian Carlo Menotti?s opera ?The Consul.?
Here are some of the most memorable versions of Gershwin?s ?Summertime.?
