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September 4, 2013Theater
May 22, 2013Blogs
May 20, 2013The 58th Annual Village Voice Obie Awards, celebrating achievement in the Off-Broadway and off-off Broadway theater, were given out at a ceremony tonight at Webster Hall. The awards ceremony was co-hosted by Jessica Hecht and Jeremy Shamos. The awards were presented by Bobby Cannavale, Tracee Chimo, ... More >>
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February 27, 2013Theater
October 10, 2012Plays from Neil LaBute and Marco Calvani at La MaMa
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September 19, 2012Theater
September 5, 2012Blogs
July 18, 2012I just found the very first interview I did with late, great actress Susan Tyrrell.
It was in 1981, for Soho Weekly News (two years before the Details one I've been running excerpts from.)
Tyrrell had just gone into the off-Broadway play A Coupla White Chicks Sitting Around Talking. She spoke of t ... More >>
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July 4, 2012Voice Choices
June 27, 2012Theater
May 23, 2012We asked Off- and Off-Off theatermakers what they feel the scene is missing
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March 28, 2012Theater
February 8, 2012John Osborne's British classic faces an American audience again
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January 4, 2012Voice Choices
December 14, 2011Voice Choices
November 16, 2011Jesse Eisenberg stars in his own play
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November 2, 2011We ask theater writers to name their pick
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March 30, 2011Plus Derek Jacobi, the Shaggs, and other spring theater picks
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March 23, 2011Remembering the American theater's poet of embattled dreamers
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January 13, 2011Ellen Stewart at La MaMa in 1991 (Jonathan Slaff)Ellen Stewart, 91, universally known as La Mama and acclaimed as one of the formidable figures who shaped the Off-Off-Broadway theater movement, died peacefully in her sleep on Wednesday night. The founder and guiding spirit of Café La MaMa, l ... More >>
Voice Choices
December 1, 2010The New Group looks at the troubles of the working class
Voice Choices
November 17, 2010Learn to stop worrying and love Peter Sellers
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August 25, 2010At 82, he doesn't need reviving, but argues that his plays do
Voice Choices
August 18, 2010Hide under the covers at the Rattlestick Theater
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June 24, 2010If you haven't already heard of it, Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson is an emo-rock opera by young theater provocateurs Michael Friedman and Alex Timbers, who's also the guy responsible for mounting a "Hell House" in bougie-Brooklyn, a Scientology Christmas Pageant, and a version of Henrik Ibsen' ... More >>
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June 22, 2010More thoughts on Broadway and the state of theater in New York
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June 18, 2010This week, the Voice published a preview of "The Octoroon: An Adaptation of The Octoroon Based on The Octoroon," a new version of Dion Boucicault's melodrama adapted by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins. We wrote that, despite the intervening decades and the massive upheavals in racial politics and thea ... More >>
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March 25, 2010The difference between Arthur Miller and the playwrights of today? For one thing, they're not doing Marilyn Monroe. For another, Miller got decent coin for what he did in his day, as one of the few prominent guys who did. Now, playwrights have to fight for their cash where they can get it.
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March 16, 2010Voice Choices
November 10, 2009Alan Ayckbourn's My Wonderful Day
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September 8, 2009Theater
August 25, 2009Voice Choices
August 25, 2009The People revive August Wilson's 1982 play
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August 4, 2009Sixteen years after a controversial departure, a return
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June 17, 2009Another notable piece from the Voice's vaults.
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June 3, 2009Theater
May 13, 2009Voice Choices
February 11, 2009Theatermakers battle for glory
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December 31, 2008A last laugh in two new comedies
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December 25, 2008Theater
December 17, 2008Voice Choices
December 10, 2008Melissa Gawlowski's The Frankophile explores Moliere
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December 3, 2008A revival of Martin McDonagh's The Cripple of Inishmaan
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November 12, 2008Voice Choices
October 1, 2008Rattlestick revives Terrence McNally's controversial play
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August 5, 2008Adam Bock, Young Jean Lee and more make up a new breed of self-aware playwrights questioning what we know about language
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June 17, 2008Two new American plays argue against the 'virtues' of female beauty
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June 17, 2008Formula only comes alive once in Philip Ridley's mystery
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