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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:53:54 GMT | | The latest play from Kate Fodor, “Rx,” a winning combination of light satire and romance, pokes gentle fun at our overprescribed culture.
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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 02:07:20 GMT | | Paula Vogel staged one of her imaginative theater “boot camps” for donors to Second Stage.
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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 15:23:38 GMT | | "Mary Poppins" and "The Lion King" will present special performances as part of the Autism Theater Initiative.
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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:17:15 GMT | | In “The Ugly One,” at Soho Rep, a man loses his sense of self when a miracle of plastic surgery turns him into a nouveau Apollo.
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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 03:00:00 GMT | | In Elizabeth Lucas’s slender but effective dramatization of “Myths and Hymns,” Adam Guettel’s songs remain the focus.
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| | Tue, 07 Feb 2012 18:15:32 GMT | | The zippy new National Theater production of Shakespeare's "Comedy of Errors" is a clear reconception, while the Young Vic's hot-and-sticky new interpretation of "The Changeling," a Jacobean revenge tragedy, is mired in pudding.
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| | Tue, 07 Feb 2012 19:47:19 GMT | | Danai Gurira’s ambitious new play, “The Convert,” about the arrival of colonialism in 1895 southern Africa, is having its premiere at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, N.J.
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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 08:30:04 GMT | | In "Outward Bound" and "The House of Bernarda Alba," emotions play big at some smaller theaters.
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| | Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:30:03 GMT | | The nightspot named 54 Below, a 160-seat space, is scheduled to open in early June with a two-week engagement by Patti LuPone.
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| | Fri, 03 Feb 2012 15:48:00 GMT | | God save the king, as portrayed by Eddie Redmayne in the Donmar Warehouse's production of "Richard II," because he sure isn't up to saving himself.
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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:10:31 GMT | | Live performances of the play, with a cast that features Phylicia Rashad and Leslie Uggams and directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, will be recorded for a planned national broadcast in September.
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| | Tue, 07 Feb 2012 16:32:23 GMT | | The Intiman Theater, which has been under financial duress for a year, said it has raised over $1 million in pledges and would present a four-play season in the summer.
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| | Tue, 07 Feb 2012 14:17:54 GMT | | "The Book of Mormon" topped the Broadway box office last week, thanks to premium ticket pricing and the fact that it remains in a relatively small theater.
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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:06:10 GMT | | One of Broadway’s greatest flops, “Carrie” is being dressed up, and toned down, for another onstage dance.
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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 17:30:04 GMT | | The Prospect Theater Company’s revamped version of Adam Guettel’s “Myths and Hymns” has the potential to convince theaters everywhere that the piece is viable as a stage property.
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| | Tue, 07 Feb 2012 17:00:33 GMT | | The National College Comedy Festival at Skidmore, next Friday and Saturday, has become a place for young troupes to flex their muscles outside the glare of the professional arena.
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| | Fri, 03 Feb 2012 21:17:17 GMT | | Beyond Broadway, possibilities for dates with a New York sweetheart include love songs, comedies, burlesque and readings in the buff.
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| | Tue, 07 Feb 2012 23:00:28 GMT | | Several current British productions, including “Lovesong,” “Travelling Light” and “The Kreutzer Sonata,” feature characters who recall earlier times.
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| | Thu, 02 Feb 2012 22:53:40 GMT | | The tempest over "Clybourne Park" vividly illustrates how small the universe of the Broadway theater really is.
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| | Tue, 07 Feb 2012 20:22:07 GMT | | “Smash,” NBC’s series about backstage Broadway, comes with New York and Hollywood names off screen (Steven Spielberg, Therese Rebeck) and on (Debra Messing and Brian d’Arcy James).
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| | Sun, 05 Feb 2012 23:04:02 GMT | | In the Roundabout Theater revival of John Osborne’s 1956 landmark play, “Look Back in Anger,” Matthew Rhys plays the British working-class antihero.
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| | Wed, 08 Feb 2012 16:00:17 GMT | | “Macbeth” is fast-forwarded to 1969, but without much success.
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| | Wed, 21 Dec 2011 17:24:06 GMT | | A selected guide to theater performances in New York, on and off Broadway.
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