Theater
Current Features
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Bubbles Might Burst, But Memories Won’tThe Gazillion Bubble Show delights children of all ages in New York
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Long Live The DuchessReview of The Duchess of Malfi
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In the Heat of the Night:Encore exclusive interview with director Joe Tantalo
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TACT throws A Cocktail PartyT.S. Eliot play makes comeback
Archives
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A VerdictReview of The Scottsboro Boys
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Directorial DiligenceReview of Sam Mendes’ The Tempest at BAM
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Variety Goes ApeCirque du Soleil presents Banana Shpeel at the Beacon
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Acting Duo Paint the Town REDNew drama proves gripping, provocative
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Use Your DelusionA Lie of the Mind review
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From the Stage and Beyond!Love, Loss, and What I Wore: A review
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A Walk Through Clybourne ParkAn Interview With Pam Mackinnon
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Encore Exclusive interview with Madame White Snake creator Cerise Lim Jacobs -
Time Stands StillThe more people change, the more pictures stay the same
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Theater for the Video Game AgeMabou Mines’ FINN breaks boundaries at Skirball
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Smudge: A Thing of Beauty -
Forbidden BroadwayClassic comes to SOPAC
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Finding Fela! in the FabricCostume and set designer Marina Draghici
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MCC Theater Presents The PrideHit play makes U.S. debut with Brit stars
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Il mondo della lunaGotham Chamber Opera, Diane Paulus stage classic at Hayden Planetarium
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Carrie on My Wayward PrincessWishful Drinking
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Mamet’s Race Stirs AudiencesAll-Star cast joins writer/director legend
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A Brilliant Study in The UnderstudyRoundabout Extends Run
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Yip Yip Hooray!Revival of Flahooley comes to off-Broadway
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Fascinating Aïda Is ‘Absolutely Miraculous’ -
Health Takes Center StageAnna Deavere Smith’s Let Me Down Easy extended
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The South Via ScandinaviaLiv Ullmann directs Cate Blanchett in Tennessee Williams’ classic
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No Love Lost on Love, Loss… -
Fresh-Water PearlPearl Theatre glows in a new home
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Superior PedigreeNew play has all the right ingredients
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FELA! Coming to BroadwaySmash hit makes big move
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Esther Returns to NYC OperaSoprano Lauren Flanigan is back in the role she originated more than fifteen years ago
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Not Your Mother’s CircusSwedish troupe Cirkus Cirkör debut Inside Out at BAM
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The Mint Theater Unearths So Help Me God!The celebrated company gives life to a 1920s work by Chicago writer Maurine Dallas Watkins
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Still Life Comes to StageDirector Will Frears examines paralyzing fear in Alexander Dinelaris’ funny and heartbreaking play
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Cultural SynergyJapan Society presents internationally relevant arts season
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Theater’s Best, Right NowThe annual Dublin gathering of the international stage’s brightest
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War and RemembranceAftermath explores Iraqi experience of invasion
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The Dutch are ComingNew Island Festival invades Governors Island
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LAByrinth Stages a 21st-Century OthelloPhilip Seymour Hoffman and John Ortiz in a bold new interpretation
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An Opera Gala for Everyone to AttendThe Metropolitan Opera is courting new fans this season, starting with a new production of Tosca
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20at20 Offers Big Theater at Low CostPromotion gives fans tickets without expense
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Altar Boyz is HeavenlyMusical parody leaves audience laughing out loud
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Primary Stages Turns 25The off-Broadway company marks its twenty-fifth year by celebrating women playwrights
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FringeNYC Draws Theatrical AdventurersThe largest multi-arts festival in North America is back this August
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39 Steps Big on HumorBroadway comedy-thriller proves that acting is imagination
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Cosmic ClashesThe Bacchae plays this August at Central Park’s Delacorte Theater
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Festivities in the Shadow of a CastleImmerse yourself in Edinburgh’s annual performing arts festival
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Marvelous and WonderfulThe Marvelous Wonderettes takes audience down memory lane
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Annual Festival Displays Fresh TalentSamuel French Short Play Festival to award six winners
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Shakespeare in the Parking LotThis space reserved for Shakespeare
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Q&A With the Stars of The TempermentalsMichael Urie and Thomas Jay Ryan answer a few burning (and silly) questions
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Apply LiberallyThe unique annual festival presents the work of eight new playwrights at the Public Theater
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Irish Rep’s Play Requires No RebuttalThe Rivalry tells story of Lincoln/Douglas debates
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A Cocktail of Weird and WonderfulClassic graphic novel Coraline brought to life at MCC Theater
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Play Illuminates Piece of HistoryThe Temperamentals gives glimpse into lives of early gay rights activists
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Anything Goes at FIGMENT 2009New York’s annual free participatory art and cultural festival is back
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Angels Take Flight on StageThis month Naked Angels will present the world premiere of Next Fall, a new play by Geoffrey Nauffts
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Etch-a-Sketch: Festival Draws Comedy to Big AppleUpright Citizens Brigade Theatre hosts this cornucopia of sketch comedy offerings
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Baryshnikov Arts Center’s New TheaterRenovations begin this spring on an inventive space
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Making HitsLeslie Ayvazian makes her Atlantic Theater Company debut with Make Me
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The Success of FailureCynthia Hopkins delivers the third installment of her Accidental Trilogy at St. Ann’s Warehouse
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Edward Hall and Propeller Spin Another Shakespeare FavoriteAward-winning troupe Propeller back at BAM with a compelling interpretation of The Merchant of Venice
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Quench Your ThirstFirst Light Theater Group marries gothic terror and ecological apocalypse
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La Didone meets Planet of the VampiresThe Wooster Group’s Elizabeth LeCompte has a vision
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West Side Story Back on BroadwayLove—and a classic soundtrack—are in the air this spring
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New Group Stages O’NeillLili Taylor stars in auteur’s unedited, four-and-a-half-hour Mourning Becomes Electra
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HeroesThree elderly World War I veterans plot a new assault—a trip to a stand of trees in the distance
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Dubya Gets His Own Hollywood TributeWill Ferrell’s Broadway debut remembers our former president
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Women’s Project Dives Into FreshwaterSee Virginia Woolf’s sole contribution to theater, an autobiographical play
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Bridge to EverywhereBAM’s new “Bridge Project” offers the best and brightest in British and American theater
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Women Beware WomenNYC’s Red Bull Theater Company specializes in bloody, bawdy Jacobean plays
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Shogun MacbethThe Bard finds Buddhism in latest from Pan Asian Rep
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Historic New Home for Brooklyn-based Activist TroupeIrondale Ensemble performs Peter Pan at Lafayette Avenue Presbyterian Church
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Epic Lessons in Operatic VerseDouglas Cuomo brings the Bhagavad Gita to BAM
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Taking Over WilliamsburgFounder of annual Hip-Hop Theater Festival dons the faces of gentrification in one-man show
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Local Art Livin’ Just Enough for the CityGalapagos, like so much of NYC’s creative lifeblood, moves to Brooklyn
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Literature and Culture Journal A Public Space Hosts Three Nights at BAMNew series is a modern salon for artists and art lovers alike
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Jordan Roth’s Givenik.com Expands Charitable EffortsSite that marries Broadway and philanthropy increases participating theaters and nonprofits
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West Meets East: Meeting with BodhisattvaTaiwan’s U Theatre uses martial arts, drums and Chinese operatic dance to explore Buddhist philosophy
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A TKTS Booth Grows in Brooklyn -
Desir at SpiegelworldBurlesque, nightclub lounge and traditional sideshow combine in this guilty pleasure
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Negro Ensemble Gives Leslie Lee Reason to Reminisce -
Penguin Rep: Devotion to New Plays