Category: Non-Musical
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The Caretaker
“He wasn’t even listening,” a lonely man says when he realizes another has secretly slipped out the door while he was talking. This could be read as a matter-of-fact statement, but when it is spoken – rather, shouted – by Jonathan Pryce…
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Don’t Dress for Dinner
“It’s all beige,” the woman next to me sighed when the curtain rose on the set of Don’t Dress for Dinner. Little did she know that John Lee Beatty’s set would be the least of her complaints regarding the Roundabout Theater Company’s…
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The Columnist
Featuring: Boyd Gaines, Brian J. Smith, Grace Gummer, John Lithgow, Marc Bonan, Margaret Colin, Stephen Kunken
There are few noises that sound as hopeful or as ominous as the clicking of keys on a typewriter, which makes it an appropriate noise for the opening scene of David Auburn’s historical drama The Columnist, currently in performances at the Samuel…
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A Streetcar Named Desire
“I was sort of thrilled by it,” Stella says of her husband Stanley’s display of brutal strength on their wedding night. The same could be said of my response to the latest revival of A Streetcar Named Desire, currently in performances at…
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One Man, Two Guv’nors
Featuring: Ben Livingston, Claire Lams, Daniel Rigby, Fred Ridgeway, James Corden, Jemima Rooper, Martyn Ellis, Oliver Chris, Suzie Toase, Tom Edden, Trevor Laird
Theatre-goers, you have been warned. If you have entered the Music Box Theater to see the new comedy One Man, Two Guv’nors, you are in for much more than just watching a show. You may become part of the show. Richard Bean’s…
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Clybourne Park
Featuring: Annie Parisse, Brendan Griffin, Christina Kirk, Crystal A. Dickinson, Damon Gupton, Frank Wood, Jeremy Shamos
“It’s all right. Nothing’s broken.” That statement is spoken during Clybourne Park, currently in performances at the Walter Kerr Theater. Triumphantly arriving on Broadway after a rocky transition, Bruce Norris’ play is an uncomfortably resonant and reluctantly entertaining account of racial tension,…
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The Three Sisters
Featuring: Alexander Bykovsky, Alexander Koshkarev, Alexander Zavyalov, Ekaterina Kleopina, Ekaterina Tarasova, Elena Kalinina, Irina Tychinina, Sergey Kuryshev, Sergey Vlasov
Whoever said Russians are cold-hearted creatures hasn’t seen The Three Sisters. The new staging from the Maly Drama Theater of St. Petersburg, Russia, which can be seen at the Harvey Theater at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through next Saturday, is an…
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The Best Man
Featuring: Angela Lansbury, Candice Bergen, James Earl Jones, Jefferson Mays, John Larroquette, Kerry Butler, Michael McKean
The times they are a-changing’ – at least in some ways. In others, they have not changed at all. While America may be steeped in nostalgia for “the good old days” and “the greatest generation,” and while Mad Men’s return to television…
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‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore
Featuring: Jack Gordon, Jack Hawkins, Laurence Spellman, Lizzie Hopley, Lydia Wilson, Suzanne Burden
Does Cheek by Jowl have a crystal ball? The timeliness of this London-based theatre company’s latest play is positively uncanny. Their production of ‘Tis Pity She’s a Whore, currently in performances at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Harvey Theater, is so frighteningly…
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Death of a Salesman
Featuring: Andrew Garfield, Bill Camp and John Glover, Brad Koed, Elizabeth Morton, Finn Wittrock, Fran Kranz, Glenn Fleshler, Kathleen McNenny, Linda Emond, Molly Price, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Remy Auberjonois, Stephanie Janssen
“A small man can be just as exhausted as a great one,” Arthur Miller wrote in Death of a Salesman. This statement is all too true in today’s world, where two jobs per family, or even per person, seem to be required…
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