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TV Stars in the Country
Thanks to Taylor Schilling, Emmy nominee for Orange Is the New Black, and Peter Dinklage, Emmy and Golden Globe winner for Game of Thrones, all performances of Turgenev’s A Month in the Country at Classic Stage Company (CSC) are sold out. The production, utilizing a new translation by American actor John Christopher Jones, is the … Read more
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Shakespeare’s Grand Guignol
Supply has a curious relationship to demand in New York theater, and it’s nowhere more perplexing than in the realm of Off and Off-Off Broadway Shakespearean productions. Last season, New York companies offered what must have been an unprecedented number of Shakespeare’s greatest hits (including four stagings of King Lear), but few, if any, of infrequently seen … Read more
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Life with Father, Irish Style
Hugh Leonard’s Da is a painful coming-of-age story being given an engaging and rare revival by the Irish Repertory Theater in its temporary home at DR2 Theatre off Union Square. Set in a rural town in Ireland, Leonard’s 1978 Tony winner deals with Charlie, a middle-aged man who has returned to his family home after the death of his … Read more
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Tagged Adam Petherbridge, Charlotte Moore, Ciarán O’Reilly, Da, Hugh Leonard, Irish Repertory Theatre, Paul O'Brien
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Body of Words
In an author’s note, dramatist Vincent Sessa says that his Body of Words is based on the homecoming of Odysseus. That may not be much help to anyone who knows The Odyssey, since there are only two characters, an older and a younger man, and as the play opens they’ve just completed a bout of … Read more
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Tagged Body of Words, Bruch Reed, Homer, Marek Pavlowski, Odyssey, Vincent Sessa
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The Lighter Side of Communism
It’s probably safe to say that George Gershwin’s notion of Russian drama as he described it in his classic “But Not for Me” is probably what most people think of it: “I’ve found more clouds of gray/Than any Russian play could guarantee.” It’s to Moira Buffini’s credit that her 2007 adaptation of Nikolai Erdman’s play … Read more
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Tagged Dying for It, Jeanine Serralles, Joey Slotnick, Nikolai Erdman, Peter Maloney, Robert Stanton, Russian drama, The Suicide
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In a Rut in Idaho
Samuel D. Hunter made a big splash—excuse the pun—with his play The Whale, for which he won a special Drama Desk Award in 2013. Earlier this year he was honored with a MacArthur “genius” award. His latest play is Pocatello, at Playwrights Horizons, where The Whale was mounted, and it takes place, as his plays … Read more
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Tagged Brenda Wehle, Brian Hutchison, Davis McCallum, Idaho, Playwrights Horizons, Pocatello, Samuel D. Hunter, T.R. Knight
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