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Boxing Meets Broadway
Boxing. Broadway. Sound like uncommon bedfellows? Think again, because the current production of Rocky on Broadway — recently imported from its debut in Germany — successfully marries sports and big-budget theater. Storytelling is not the goal of this musical, since most of the audience members are familiar with the underdog plot line of Sylvester Stallone’s 1976 sports drama flick. Instead, Rocky is all … Read more
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More Ado in Harlem
The Public Theater presentation of Much Ado About Nothing, with a starry cast performing in the bucolic setting of Central Park’s Delacorte Theater, is likely to be among New York City’s most sought after tickets. Up at the 133rd Street Arts Center, What Dreams May Co. Theatre and Queens Players are currently offering another Much Ado, hardly publicized but well worth a visit. In a perfectly ordered New … Read more
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Steiningly Abstract
The group Theater Plastique had a hit at last year’s New York International Fringe Festival with its inaugural production, Gertrude Stein Saints! The show has now returned for a longer run at the Abrons Arts Center on the Lower East Side, and it’s a compelling, if unusual, piece of theater. Neither play nor opera — … Read more
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Sexy Star Vehicle
A “village bike,” one learns in the script of Penelope Skinner’s new play, set in an English country town, is slang for a woman who has slept around — she has been ridden by everyone. At the Lucille Lortel Theatre, that description eventually applies to Becky, a young wife who is newly pregnant but not … Read more
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Looking Forward to Looking Back
Nostalgia is a powerful thing — it connects us all to a collective memory, reminding us constantly of better days when we were, perhaps, our better selves. In the midst of the 2010s, when everything from our fashion to our music to even our social media outlets (hello, instagram) derives inspiration from a previous era in … Read more
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Central Park or the Forest of Arden
Often, when New Yorkers think of theatre in Central Park, they think of the Public’s Shakespeare in the Park at the Delacorte Theatre. Flying under the radar of the Delacorte, however, are other theatrical happenings taking place in the nooks and crannies of Central Park. One of these lesser-known jewels is the New York Classical … Read more
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Tagged As You Like It, Central Park, New York Classical Theatre, Shakespeare
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