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Sat, 04 Sep 2010 03:00:05 GMT

Theater Review | 'Vision Disturbance': Seeing in Just 2 Dimensions as Her Marriage Breaks Up

In Christina Masciotti’s “Vision Disturbance,” a Greek-born woman experiences a strange eye disorder while going through a divorce.


Fri, 03 Sep 2010 04:14:56 GMT

Theater Review | 'It Must Be Him': Has-Been Writer Hopes to Break Out of a Slump

In “It Must Be Him,” a comedy by Kenny Solms, Peter Scolari plays a television writer who’s trying to revive his career.


Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:00:06 GMT

Urban Athlete: Chorus-Line Calisthenics

For beginning hoofers or advanced, Broadway dance routines can be an alternative to the gym.


Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:00:04 GMT

You Never Forget That Star-Struck Encounter With Your Idol

Actors recall how long-ago backstage encounters with their idols changed their lives.


Thu, 02 Sep 2010 12:51:25 GMT

Theater Talkback: Just When You Think You Know Somebody . . .

Sometimes performers make you see familiar characters in new ways.


Thu, 02 Sep 2010 05:50:04 GMT

After a Cameo on Cable, Jets Hit the Stage

The Jets took in an early private performance of the show “Black Angels Over Tuskegee” on Wednesday in Manhattan.


Wed, 01 Sep 2010 04:30:47 GMT

Theater Review | 'Troilus and Cressida': The Cynical Side of Shakespeare, but With a River View

At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a “Troilus and Cressida” that doesn’t shortchange the title characters.


Tue, 31 Aug 2010 04:30:19 GMT

Nonprofit Theaters Take On Bold Broadway Ventures This Fall

The Public Theater and Lincoln Center Theater, both nonprofits, are undertaking financially ambitious productions for the 2010-11 Broadway season.


Tue, 31 Aug 2010 15:53:39 GMT

Theater Review | 'An Error of the Moon': Redrawing a Picture of Lincoln’s Assassin

In Luigi Creatore’s “Error of the Moon,” the jealous Edwin Booth is partly responsible for John Wilkes Booth’s assassination of Lincoln.


Fri, 03 Sep 2010 16:51:33 GMT

Brendan Fraser to Make Broadway Debut in 'Elling'

Mr. Fraser and Denis O'Hare are set to play a mismatched pair of roommates navigating the shoals of friendship, work, and women


Fri, 03 Sep 2010 13:29:55 GMT

'Yank!' Won't Reach Broadway This Season

The musical, about two World War II G.I.'s whose friendship turns into romance, has been delayed until the fall of 2011.


Thu, 02 Sep 2010 18:58:54 GMT

'You Can't Take it With You' Revival Off for Fall

Producer Elizabeth I. McCann, who had announced she would mount the show in November, said on Thursday that she is now aiming for a spring opening.


Fri, 03 Sep 2010 05:30:27 GMT

Theater Listings: Sept. 3 — 9

Selective listings by theater critics of The New York Times of noteworthy shows in New York.


Thu, 02 Sep 2010 23:04:51 GMT

Theater Review | 'Hedda Gabler': An Audience Visits With Hedda Gabler at Home, a Real Home

A site-specific production of Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” is performed for an audience of two dozen in an East Village town house.


Mon, 30 Aug 2010 16:05:40 GMT

Theater Review | 'All-American Girls': The Big Game Is Coming, but Where’s the Coach?

Layon Gray’s play “All-American Girls” puts together an all-black female baseball team during World War II for a whodunit.


Fri, 27 Aug 2010 04:00:13 GMT

Theater Review | 'The Memory Show': Forgetting of Things Past: A Duet Off-Key

In “The Memory Show,” the young composer Zach Redler has written a score that follows the patterns of minds grasping, often in vain, for clarity, conviction and lost time.


Sat, 04 Sep 2010 06:40:21 GMT

George Hitchcock, Kayak Magazine Founder, Dies at 96

Mr. Hitchcock, a playwright and poet himself, included a wide variety of poets and writers in his literary magazine.


Sat, 28 Aug 2010 02:45:08 GMT

A Temple of Drama, Burnished

The Belasco Theater, a Broadway house known for its relative intimacy and its subtly gothic ambience, has been restored to its original grandeur.


Thu, 02 Sep 2010 07:30:32 GMT

‘Red’ Hot and Staying Cool

The much-praised London theater company Donmar Warehouse, despite the success of its “Red” on Broadway, does not plan to transfer plays willy-nilly to New York.


Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:30:46 GMT

Arts, Briefly: Theatrical Spills and Award Thrills

Brooke Shields broke her hand during rehearsals for a show in Los Angeles; the first Horton Foote Prize for playwrights has been awarded for two plays.


Sat, 28 Aug 2010 05:00:03 GMT

Keeping You Entertained (and on Your Toes)

Several shows at this year’s Edinburgh Festival Fringe, including “Roadkill” and “Sub Rosa,” tinker with the traditional audience construct.


Sun, 29 Aug 2010 15:38:24 GMT

Arts | New Jersey: ‘Where Broadway Comes Home to Sleep’

Show-business people who commute from Manhattan to South Orange and Maplewood have banded together to form a theater company called Midtown Direct Rep.


Thu, 26 Aug 2010 08:14:56 GMT

Surprise of a Salesman: Christopher Lloyd

Mr. Lloyd brings his “Taxi” and “Back to the Future” sensibility to Arthur Miller’s liked-but-not-well-liked everyman, in Weston, Vt.