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Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:01:05 GMT

Signature Theater’s Plans Shift, but Gehry Remains

The Signature Theater Company’s new home, designed by Frank Gehry, won’t be as grand as the one planned for the World Trade Center site, but it is more affordable.


Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:24:52 GMT

Theater Review | 'Happy in the Poorhouse': At Theater 80, the Amoralists Look to Palookaville

“Happy in the Poorhouse” is a big, sloppy kiss of a family drama delivered with the warmth and gusto of an overly affectionate aunt.


Tue, 16 Mar 2010 06:25:55 GMT

Theater Review | 'Kiss Bessemer Goodbye': Loving Band of Bigots, From Tencha Ávila

There’s something ugly going on in this likable if shaky one-act, Repertorio Español’s newest production.


Tue, 16 Mar 2010 05:59:00 GMT

Theater Review | 'Good Ol’ Girls': Southern Women Tell (Almost) All at the Steinberg Center

“Good Ol’ Girls” — starring five talented, attractive women with Southern accents — puts down 99 percent of Southern men. So tell us again, what is it celebrating?


Mon, 15 Mar 2010 05:35:53 GMT

Theater Review | 'Looped': Valerie Harper Is Tallulah Bankhead on the Skids

A previously unknown Tallulah Bankhead — the fabulous monster as crackerjack comic — is revealed to the world in Matthew Lombardo’s cruel but enjoyably catty play “Looped.”


Mon, 15 Mar 2010 06:09:10 GMT

Music Review | Lea Salonga: Disney and ‘Miss Saigon’ at Café Carlyle

Lea Salonga is the vocal personification of what might be called the Broadway and Hollywood international style.


Sun, 14 Mar 2010 01:13:28 GMT

Elizabeth Marvel Plunges Into the Briny Deep of Character

The actress Elizabeth Marvel has drawn praise over the years from critics and theatergoers for her poise and dexterity with both classical roles and contemporary parts.


Sat, 13 Mar 2010 01:21:27 GMT

Kazan, Tennessee Williams and Target Margin Theater

Target Margin Theater’s new show revisits an experimental Tennessee Williams and Elia Kazan production that flopped on Broadway.


Sat, 13 Mar 2010 10:59:44 GMT

Athol Fugard’s Next Act: Driving Out Apartheid’s Ghost

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.


Mon, 15 Mar 2010 17:03:19 GMT

Lessons in Love From the London Stage

Onstage in "A Midsummer Night's Dream" Judi Dench gives a lesson in how to love.


Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:21:14 GMT

Answers From a Theater Historian, Part III

The final installment of answers from Marc Robinson, the author of "The American Play: 1787 -- 2000."


Fri, 12 Mar 2010 04:07:42 GMT

Theater Listings: March 12 — 18

Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.


Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:17:25 GMT

Theater Review | 'Lenin’s Embalmers': Doing a Job for Stalin, at Ensemble Studio Theater

“Lenin’s Embalmers” will teach you to beware those in seats of power who issue orders that carry the whiff of crazy.


Tue, 16 Mar 2010 02:18:58 GMT

‘The Demons’: 12-Hour Play, and Endless Bragging Rights

“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.


Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:11:41 GMT

Theater Review | 'Next Fall': At Helen Hayes, Taking on Religion From a Hospital Bed

“Next Fall” is that genuine rara avis, a smart, sensitive and utterly contemporary New York comedy.


Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:11:18 GMT

Theater Review | 'The Scottsboro Boys': Kander and Ebb Revisit an Infamous Case

The new musical from the fabled songwriting team of John Kander and Fred Ebb wears its halo like a barbed-wire hat.


Thu, 11 Mar 2010 04:34:24 GMT

Theater Review | 'Girls in Trouble': Jonathan Reynolds Views Abortion From Kennedy Era to Now

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.


Sat, 13 Mar 2010 00:52:18 GMT

Theater Review | Westchester: ‘Kimberly Akimbo’ at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls

The Schoolhouse Theater production of “Kimberly Akimbo” finds the comedy in a teenager facing an early death — and that isn’t her only problem.


Wed, 10 Mar 2010 05:58:32 GMT

Theater Review | 'Top Secret': A Vietnam War-Era Fight at New York Theater Workshop

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.


Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:11:54 GMT

Theater Review | 'When the Rain Stops Falling': David Cromer Directs Andrew Bovell’s Multigenerational Drama

Andrew Bovell’s “When the Rain Stops Falling” is a fitfully moving but diagrammatic play about the long legacy of unnatural acts.


Sun, 14 Mar 2010 17:20:11 GMT

Theater Review | 'The Duchess of Malfi': Bloody Family Affairs in a Red Bull Theater Production

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.


Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:16:21 GMT

Theater Review | 'Blind': Craig Wright Retells the Oedipus Myth at Rattlestick

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.


Tue, 09 Mar 2010 07:19:51 GMT

Music Review | Jeanine Tesori: Thoroughly Modern Music in Lincoln Center Songbook Series

Jeanine Tesori, as part of Lincoln Center’s American Songbook series, was the host of an autobiographical extravaganza at the Allen Room.


Wed, 10 Mar 2010 20:37:43 GMT

At Adelphi Theater in London: Same Phantom, Different Spirit

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.


Thu, 11 Mar 2010 23:02:10 GMT

Paint Never Dries

Unflattering nickname for Andrew Lloyd Webber's latest musical "Love Never Dies."


Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:28:40 GMT

Vain Glorious | A Scar Is Born

Laura Linney and the makeup artist Mindy Hall gave a reporter a mini-tutorial on the art of the scar.


Wed, 10 Mar 2010 03:21:30 GMT

On the London Stage: Love May Die but Its Phantoms Play Enduring Roles in London

Temperatures rise in “Ghosts” and irony betrays “Sweet Nothings,” as Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “Love Never Dies” opens.


Tue, 09 Mar 2010 05:30:19 GMT

Variety Lays Off the Critics Todd McCarthy and David Rooney

The show business trade paper said “economic reality” dictated jobs cuts, eight in total.