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Athol Fugard, the South African playwright, is back telling stories shaped by his country?s tormented racial history. His new play will have its premiere at a theater named in his honor.
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?Lenin?s Embalmers,? at Ensemble Studio Theater, will teach you to beware those in seats of power who issue orders that carry the whiff of crazy.
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?The Demons,? a 12-hour production of a grim Dostoyevsky novel that will be performed only twice, may be the must-see show of the New York theater season.
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Patrick Heusinger, rear, and Patrick Breen in Geoffrey Nauffts?s New York comedy at the Helen Hayes Theater.?Next Fall? is that genuine rara avis, a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy.
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The new musical from the fabled songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb wears its halo like a barbed-wire hat.
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While Jonathan Reynolds?s assault on assumptions about the right to choose abortion is likely too crude to make theatergoers re-evaluate their positions, it did make me reconsider my view of political theater.
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In interviews after last night's show, many people, black and white, said that while disturbing at times, the play's trafficking in racial stereotypes proved an unexpectedly emotional theatrical experience.
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Andrew Lloyd Webber?s belated sequel to ?The Phantom of the Opera? feels as eager to be walloped as a clown in a carnival dunking booth.
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While ?Top Secret: The Battle for the Pentagon Papers? offers a cogent, informative peek into a historic chapter in 20th-century journalism, as an evening of theater it is static.
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?Neighbors? is a simultaneously overheated and undercooked new play that sacrifices cogency and meaning for pure sensation.
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Andrew Bovell?s ?When the Rain Stops Falling? is a fitfully moving but diagrammatic play about the long legacy of unnatural acts.
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Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
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More answers to readers' questions from Marc Robinson, a professor at Yale University.
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Unflattering nickname for Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical "Love Never Dies."
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Laura Linney and the makeup artist Mindy Hall gave a reporter a mini-tutorial on the art of the scar.
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The Red Bull Theater?s muddled production of John Webster?s ?Duchess of Malfi? appears in the process of being explored rather than already discovered.
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Bette Bourne, a drag performer and activist from Britain, recounts his experience at the footlights and on the front lines in ?A Life in Three Acts.?
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In ?Blind,? the playwright Craig Wright has embarked on a modern retelling of the Oedipus story, but it?s never clear why he?s doing it.
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Jeanine Tesori, as part of Lincoln Center?s American Songbook series, was the host of an autobiographical extravaganza at the Allen Room.
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Melissa Errico?s formidable beauty is probably the most persuasive element in the Irish Repertory Theater?s revival of George Bernard Shaw?s comedy ?Candida.?
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Erica Sullivan is Sylvia, a poodle-Labrador mix who latches onto Greg, John Procaccino, left, in Central Park. He takes Sylvia home, to the dismay of Greg's wife, Kate, played by Karen Ziemba, far right.?Sylvia,? at the Long Wharf Theater, is about a poodle-Labrador retriever mix, known these days as a Labradoodle.
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Robbie Collier Sublett in this multimedia piece at the Skirball Center for the Performing Arts.This adaptation of the Celtic tale of Finn Mac Cumhail tries to puff up a four-actor show with towering video effects.
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Martin McDonagh?s erratically enjoyable ?Behanding in Spokane? never matches the strange genius of its star, Christopher Walken.
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Abbi Hawk in a farce from 1714, at the Kirk Theater.Those who would see ?The Wonder? and focus on its flaws are the same type of killjoys who would eat ice cream then whine about the calories.
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Josh Barrett, left, and Michael Crane in Sam
Marks?s play about a boys? night out gone awry, at 59E59 Theaters.?Brack?s Last Bachelor Party? imagines the party Judge Brack gives for George Tesman in ?Hedda Gabler.?
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?Conviction,? an Israeli play about a Catholic priest who falls in love with a Jewish woman during the Spanish Inquisition, remains tepid.
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Temperatures rise in ?Ghosts? and irony betrays ?Sweet Nothings,? as Andrew Lloyd Webber?s ?Love Never Dies? opens.
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Guns? Check. Explosions? Check. Martin McDonagh is back on Broadway with ?A Behanding in Spokane.?
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The show business trade paper said ?economic reality? dictated jobs cuts, eight in total.
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Though Twyla Tharp?s Broadway show ?Come Fly Away? as a whole is new, certain dances have long been a part of Ms. Tharp?s Sinatra repertory.
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?The Boys in the Band? influenced untold numbers of gay artists who, for the first time, were seeing characters out of the closet and in front of a paying audience.
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John Turturro is unleashing his love for Italy, his parents? homeland, onstage.
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The show, to be staged at the New York City Center, reflects efforts by media companies to go beyond traditional realms of the printed page or TV set.
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The Williamstown Theater Festival in Massachusetts has announced its 2010 summer season.
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Projections are so much a part of going to the theater these days that the Yale School of Drama is going to offer a full-fledged projection design program starting this fall.
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Playwrights Horizons and other nonprofit theaters in New York have been busily mounting ensemble plays with large casts or roles of equal importance.
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Even though belt-tightening measures have put tremendous strain on teachers and students, schools are continuing to produce remarkable creative works.
