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| | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:00:48 GMT | | The first part of Horton Foote’s “Orphans’ Home Cycle” is a thrilling demonstration of an artist soaring into the realm of the epic.
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| | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:04:07 GMT | | Alert the authorities. Shocking sexual acts are taking place in this inspired new comedy by Sarah Ruhl.
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| | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 05:57:24 GMT | | Seattle is alive with artistic energy. While the city’s musical voices thrive, stage productions are on the rebound after the loss of prized playhouses.
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| | Thu, 19 Nov 2009 22:37:58 GMT | | An interactive feature on the 50th anniversary of the Broadway opening of "The Sound of Music."
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| | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 06:57:35 GMT | | What the Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater does is improbably fabulous, and they’re doing it again in their sublime new production.
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| | Thu, 19 Nov 2009 08:30:25 GMT | | The powerful Shubert Organization has struck a new business deal with two theater producers that may lead to greater competition among other producers.
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| | Thu, 19 Nov 2009 20:35:50 GMT | | A compellingly still center lurks within the farcical storm of “My Wonderful Day,” the charming, rueful new comedy written and directed by Alan Ayckbourn.
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| | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:01:03 GMT | | “The Habit of Art,” the Alan Bennett play, has at its complexly poignant core W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten.
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| | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:25:00 GMT | | Watching Tarell Alvin McCraney’s “Brother/Sister Plays,” you experience the excited wonder that comes from witnessing a new, authentically original vision.
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| | Fri, 20 Nov 2009 07:04:03 GMT | | Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
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| | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:27:38 GMT | | Rhea Perlman and Lucy DeVito are the first mother-daughter pair to join the rotating cast of the play “Love, Loss, and What I Wore.”
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| | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:45:46 GMT | | Action is everywhere in “Wintuk,” the family-oriented holiday extravaganza from Cirque du Soleil. Emotion, however, is in somewhat shorter supply.
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| | Thu, 19 Nov 2009 15:23:39 GMT | | The treasure hunters at the Actors Company Theater have unearthed another jewel with “The Late Christopher Bean.”
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| | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:32:32 GMT | | There is not even a hint of staginess in Wendy Woodson’s one-woman play “She Turned On the Light.”
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| | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:44:33 GMT | | Theodore Bikel wrote and stars in this pleasantly nostalgic but meandering show about Sholom Aleichem, the great Yiddish writer.
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| | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:26:26 GMT | | “Glee,” Fox’s hourlong musical comedy series, has become a cult favorite among the theater community in New York.
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| | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 06:25:09 GMT | | Jon Michael Hill is acting to great acclaim in the Broadway play “Superior Donuts.”
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| | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 05:45:02 GMT | | Jim Cartwright's "The Rise and Fall of Little Voice'' tells of a teen familial face-off; and "Pains of Youth" presents a creepy image of pre-wartime doctors.
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| | Tue, 17 Nov 2009 20:26:24 GMT | | Mr. Woodward was a British actor with a long résumé in television and theater who was best known in the United States as the star of “The Equalizer.”
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| | Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:45:09 GMT | | This appealingly modest new interpretation of “Ragtime” often finds an affecting, uneasy human soul largely missing in the 1998 version.
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| | Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:51:55 GMT | | Tarell Alvin McCraney’s story has helped make him a playwright of uncommon acclaim.
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| | Thu, 12 Nov 2009 03:42:42 GMT | | Ayesha Antoine, 28, is playing an 8-year-old in Alan Ayckbourn’s play “My Wonderful Day.”
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| | Mon, 16 Nov 2009 20:14:02 GMT | | A Q. and A. with Justin Kirk, who is playing the title character in the new play "The Understudy."
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| | Mon, 16 Nov 2009 08:23:56 GMT | | The Actors Theater of Louisville, Ky., has announced the lineup of its 34th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, and more theater news.
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| | Sun, 15 Nov 2009 19:40:09 GMT | | Hanging out with Michael Feinstein and Cheyenne Jackson, who have just released a new CD, “The Power of Two,” based on their critically acclaimed act from June.
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| | Mon, 16 Nov 2009 22:06:43 GMT | | Many things have happened since Dan Hoyle performed in the premiere of “Tings Dey Happen,” his incendiary and brilliant solo show about Nigerian oil politics, nearly three years ago at the compact theater the Marsh in San Francisco.
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| | Mon, 16 Nov 2009 16:32:35 GMT | | “The Supper Club of Lost Causes” is a fractured look at faded glory that is being given a strange, smart production at Theater for the New City.
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| | Wed, 18 Nov 2009 03:57:31 GMT | | How much you enjoy “Inside Out,” the moody blend of modern and traditional circus by the Swedish troupe Cirkus Cirkör, depends to a large degree on whether you’ve recently seen Cirque du Soleil.
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| | Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:55:31 GMT | | Hudson Stage presents a smooth and sensitive production of David Lindsay-Abaire’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama “Rabbit Hole” at Pace University.
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| | Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:59:17 GMT | | “Blood: A Comedy” shows the humor and seriousness of family spats in its premiere at the Mill Hill Playhouse in Trenton.
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| | Sun, 15 Nov 2009 04:50:23 GMT | | With its strong performances, the Hartford Stage production of “Mistakes Were Made” will appeal to theatergoers who relish the ridiculous.
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| | Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:51:03 GMT | | A festival of theater, dance, music and film examines how the performing arts contributed to the fall of Communism in Warsaw Pact countries.
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| | Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:49:21 GMT | | Kenneth Turan offers up a raucous oral history of a New York theater titan.
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| | Fri, 13 Nov 2009 05:26:33 GMT | | The problem in “Red Sea Fish” is that everything in this world seems far too familiar.
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