Revised Plan by N.Y.U. Would Preserve Walls of Provincetown Playhouse
The Manhattan borough president hailed the move as “tremendous progress” in the talks between the university and community leaders about the site.
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Theater Review: Middle East Meets West in a Small Syrian Hotel
The Scottish playwright David Greig has done something daring by setting this comedy of clashing cultures in the hothouse Middle East.
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Theater Review | 'The Bully Pulpit': The Amazing Adventures of a Gregarious Dissident
Theodore Roosevelt was never one to reflexively conform to party ideology, as Michael O. Smith demonstrates in his informative one-man show.
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Arts, Briefly: Injured Actor Files Petition
An actor who was injured on the set of “Disney’s The Little Mermaid” has asked for a court order to preserve a prop in the show as evidence for a potential lawsuit.
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Theater Listings
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
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A British Actor’s Seduction of America
Ben Daniels has arrived on Broadway this spring as a largely unknown but deeply attractive British import.
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Theater Review | ‘Past Half Remembered’: What She Saw at 2 Revolutions, and Other Festivities
A casual loose-limbed spirit permeates “Past Half Remembered,” a slight ensemble-created piece by the New International Encounter theater group.
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Theater Review | 'Old Comedy After Aristophanes’ Frogs': All Over the Map (and Timeline) Seeking Wisdom
The whimsy is ever-present in Target Margin Theater’s new show. So why does this play ultimately feel as if it goes on too long?
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Arts, Briefly: Insert Tony Stunt Here
Who in the world is Cubby Bernstein?
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Arts, Briefly: Non-Tony Award News
The New York Drama Critics’ Circle presented its top awards to the Broadway shows “August: Osage County” and “Passing Strange.”
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This Year’s Tony List Is Filled With Unusual Suspects
The Tony nominations are in, and it would be difficult to come up with a season that presented a clearer portrait of where Broadway is headed and where it has been.
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Theater Review | 'John Lithgow: Stories by Heart': The Art of Reciting a Tale, Across the Generations
“Stories by Heart” is John Lithgow’s funny, poignant tribute to his parents and grandmother.
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A Season With an Unpredictable Plot
Broadway is bracing for the Tony Awards in a year that flouted the rule book.
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Theater Review | 'Curse of the Starving Class': Shepard’s Debtors of 1978, Sounding Like Today’s Poor
The 30th-anniversary revival of Sam Shepard’s “Curse of the Starving Class,” at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, is respectable but timid.
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Theater Review | 'Marathon 2008, Series A': A Tennis Tantrum, No Math Required
David Auburn’s play “An Upset” is a highlight of the five short works in the first installment of Marathon 2008 at the Ensemble Studio Theater.
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How to Deal With Midlife: Keep Dancing
It’s been four years since Bill Irwin last presented a full evening in clown mode. He’s ready for more.
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The Play Is Over, but the Party Lingers On
Some of Off Broadway’s most prominent houses are moving beyond the usual slate of plays, musicals and talkbacks.
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Theater Review | 'Moby Dick Rehearsed': Close Your Eyes and Smell the Brine
In the Acting Company production of Orson Welles’s “Moby Dick Rehearsed,” gung-ho actors bring everything to life with no more than some crates and ladders for scenery.
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2008 Tony Award Nominations
A complete list of nominations for the 2008 Tony Awards, with links to the original New York Times reviews.
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Arts, Briefly: ‘Little Mermaid’ Actor Has Surgery on Wrists
The actor who plummeted through a trapdoor before a matinee of “The Little Mermaid” remained hospitalized.
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Arts, Briefly: Encores! for Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein is coming back to New York City Center as part of a celebration of what would have been his 90th birthday.
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Arts, Briefly: Footnotes
Alan Alda writes a play for the World Science Festival, “The Sound and the Fury” extends and more theater news.
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Theater Review | 'The Unconquered': Questions of Freedom, Set in Black and White
In his furious satire “The Unconquered,” part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, the British playwright Torben Betts shakes the daylights out of the smarmy idea of freedom.
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Theater Review | 'No, No Nanette': Roaring Twenties Speakeasies With Tubs Full of Ginger Ale Fizz
The Encores! presentation of “No, No, Nanette” is secondhand nostalgia, a reworking of a 1970s take on the 1920s.
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Vows: Jill Furman and Richard Willis
Jill Furman, a producer of the Broadway musical “In the Heights,” believes in big dreams and bright lights. So when it came to love she refused to settle for less.
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Theater Review | 'The Fever Chart': Enemies Face to Face, Exchanging Tales of Loss
“The Fever Chart,” a well-made trilogy by Naomi Wallace, explores that cauldron that is the Middle East.
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Comings and Goings: Shakespeare in England, in Luxury
Watch the English countryside roll by while having brunch on the Orient Express.
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Arts and Entertainment: Musical Goes Silent, Its Star Felled by Illness
The world premiere run of “Pure Heaven” was postponed after the lead lost her voice.
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Theater Review: Doubling Up for Shakespeare’s Twin-Laden ‘Comedy of Errors’
If one set of identical twins doesn’t generate enough mayhem for a comedy to take flight, the presence of two doppelgänger duos should ensure total bedlam.
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Theater Review: Back From the ’80s, Eyeing Other People’s Money
In “Other People’s Money,” at the John W. Engeman Theater in Northport, one wonders if Larry the Liquidator have been able to take over Yahoo.
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Theater Review: In a Fantasy Realm With Joys and Disappointments
In José Rivera’s new play, “Boleros for the Disenchanted,” the dreams of lovers and emigrants commingle.
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‘Mermaid’ Actor Breaks Wrists in Fall From High Over Stage
An actor in the Broadway show “The Little Mermaid” fell through a trap door on the deck of a suspended boat and onto the stage just before the start of the Saturday matinee performance.
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