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Samuel (Rocco Sisto), the central figure of Richard Foreman's new work, Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) (Public Theater), has a... More >>
Mike Bartlett's vicious Bull, a nasty one-act dissection of office politics mapped onto a bullfight, represents a companion to his earlier Cock... More >>
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Ever fancy yourself a politician? Perhaps a much-beloved mayor, or a city councilor staunchly shepherding your hometown along? If so, seize the... More >>
When you go home after living abroad, you inevitably leave part of yourself behind. If you were living in a different language, there are zesty... More >>
Here's one of the toughest of all form vs. content dilemmas: How do you craft narrative art out of the slog of unhappy family life, making... More >>
Three obstinate females—one fictional and two historical—dominated my theatergoing last week. Tenacious women make great showy roles... More >>
A new musical about Alzheimer’s disease? If you harbor suspicions that the musical, an all-American dramatic form, skews toward... More >>
Nick Vaughn and Jake Margolin’s A Marriage has modest ambitions. The two conceptual/performance artists, married in 2008, want viewers to... More >>
The title of Richard Greenberg's new play, The Assembled Parties (Friedman Theatre), carries multiple meanings. Its "parties" are a pair of... More >>
The onstage installation which the audience is invited to come up and inspect before the performance of Colm Toibin’s Testament of Mary... More >>
A recent college grad finds himself back home, careerless and directionless. His rich father, interfering stepmother, and doting grandmother... More >>
Douglas Carter Beane's The Nance (Lyceum Theatre) has got what it deserves from Lincoln Center Theater: a first-rate production, handsomely... More >>
The Women’s Project tends to favor domestic comedies that play like tragedies. Or maybe it’s the other way around. Recent shows such... More >>
Any Broadway show has much to live up to: burgeoning production costs; audience hopes inflated by high ticket prices; competition from film,... More >>
The new Broadway revival of the musical Jekyll & Hyde feels more like an exhumation of sorts. Some may remember the first time it was here in the... More >>
What did Shakespeare think about during his fallow final years? The playwright’s retirement remains a mystery. We find it hard to imagine... More >>
Here’s a test you can take to help determine whether shelling out $150-plus for the Motown musical is for you. Head on over to YouTube, and... More >>
This spring, Congress is yet again taking up the debate over immigration reform. And for every day politicians spend arguing over the fate of... More >>
If you were to wander backstage, into green rooms and dressing rooms and the dark spaces of the wings, you might hear performers whispering a... More >>
Edgar and Alice are soon to celebrate their silver wedding anniversary. What would constitute an appropriate gift? Arsenic? Cyanide? A neatly... More >>
Macbeth is one of the loneliest characters Shakespeare ever wrote. He sacrifices everything to his ravenous ambition—sleep, friendship,... More >>
Adoption, a touchy subject in all instances, is the ostensible topic of The Call (Playwrights Horizons), a small, tautly written,... More >>
I'd probably be able to discuss Kinky Boots (Hirschfeld Theatre) much more lucidly if I could only figure out in what decade it's meant to take... More >>
In 2007, a young Ohio couple with a penchant for role-playing games robbed nearly $8 million from an armored car company and were promptly... More >>
For us—the esteemed members of the Academy seated in the auditorium—the evening’s guest lecturer is a small hunched man... More >>
Missed out on spring break? Ready to spend a few sun-drenched afternoons on an island drinking Châteauneuf-du-Pape and eating tarte tatin... More >>
Hollywood Babble On: Jack Goldstein's Disappearing Act
With his aviator shades, shoulder-length locks, and blasé good looks, Jack Goldstein could have fronted some '70s band you don't quite remember. In actuality, the Montreal native who grew up… More >>
Lucas Hnath Fixates on Disney; Williams's Notebook of Trigorin Redecorates Chekhov
Audiences love obsessives. Set a character with a crazy, unquenchable hunger center stage and they eat it up, whether the character's hunger is for money, love, fame, or anything else.… More >>
The Golden Dragon: Umami Dearest
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Painters' Paradise: Batting .750 on the Upper East Side
Painters, even the most experimental ones, continually time-travel for inspiration. Right now, you can traverse half a millennium of painting within two dozen blocks on the Upper East Side. Begin with… More >>
Richard Foreman and Mark Nadler Revive Tormented Erotic Memories
Samuel (Rocco Sisto), the central figure of Richard Foreman's new work, Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance) (Public Theater), has a problem. Not a major problem—those were dealt with in Foreman's… More >>
Bull: Revolving Toreador
Mike Bartlett's vicious Bull, a nasty one-act dissection of office politics mapped onto a bullfight, represents a companion to his earlier Cock (2009), a full-length battle royale of sexual politics… More >>
Nikolai and the Others: Russian Hour
What if composer Nikolai "Nicky" Nabokov, choreographer George Balanchine, composer Igor Stravinsky, designer Sergey Sudeikin, and a host of ex-wives, dancers, pianists, and the odd State Department official all gathered… More >>
Core Values Takes a Busman's Holiday
In the office lexicon, are there words more demoralizing than "corporate retreat"? Not for employees of Skyline Travel, the decaying agency at the center of Steven Levenson's workplace comedy Core… More >>
Bunty Berman Presents ...: Lights, Camera, Lassi
The sunshine. The palm trees. The dashing leading men. The lissome starlets. The spangles. The elephants? As you may have guessed, Ayub Khan Din's new musical Bunty Berman Presents ...,… More >>
City Council Meeting: Going Through the Motions
Ever fancy yourself a politician? Perhaps a much-beloved mayor, or a city councilor staunchly shepherding your hometown along? If so, seize the chance (no campaign necessary) at City Council Meeting,… More >>
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