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Theater: The Classics Performed Before Folding Chairs

Mile Square Theater company in Hoboken, which formerly performed on the waterfront, is adjusting to its new indoor space.

Theater Review: A Venus That Takes an 18th-Century Orbit

Transit of Venus, at the Bickford Theater in Morristown, revives a stereotype of women as subjugated objects of desire, making it difficult to believe that a woman actually wrote it.

The Grinch Meets Sir Thomas More

Patrick Page has been known mostly for cartoonish roles. But in regional theater he is known as a Shakespearean leading man.

War and Sex: Whos Afraid of Sarah Kane?

Soho Rep is facing the challenge of staging Sarah Kanes Blasted, a play bursting with audacious violence and wriggling with metaphor.

Theater Review | 'Aliens With Extraordinary Skills': Wide-Eyed New Arrivals Falling in Love With the City

Saviana Stanescus Aliens With Extraordinary Skills is an enchanting piece of theater, a paean to New York that just happens to include balloon animals.

Weekend in New York: Seeing the Show Without Breaking the Bank

There are plenty of ways to go to the theater -- and even get great seats to Tony Award-winning Broadway shows -- for under $50.

Theater Review | 'Fault Lines': The Things You Learn at a Bar: Guys, Friendship, Its Strains and Surprises

Stephen Belbers enjoyable if flawed Fault Lines is part of a genre about vaguely homoerotic male friendship in which the towel-slapping banter usually hides much deeper divides.

Theater Review | 'Fifty Words': How Do I Love Thee? Let Me Count the Bruises and Battle Scars

Norbert Leo Butz and Elizabeth Marvel bring authentic and unsparing life to Fifty Words, Michael Wellers bruising domestic drama.

Enter Singing: Giant Bedbugs, Fancy Boys, Bank Robbers, Potato Farmers

There are two big messages in this years New York Musical Theater Festival: Nobody wants to be in 2008 New York. Everybody is gay.

Combining Words and Physicality to Explore Religion and Homosexuality

A new piece by the British company DV8 Physical Theater looks at religion and sexuality through the words of more than 85 people.

Theater Review | Milburn: Grand Revival for Milestone Season

Paper Mill Playhouses season opened with Oklahoma! The 65-year-old work is still producing whoops of delight from its audiences.

Arts, Briefly: Mermaid Performer Sues Disney

A performer who was injured in the Broadway production of The Little Mermaid has filed suit against Disney and the companies that built the sets and motion-control systems.

Theater Review | 'Irenas Vow': Hiding Innocents and Keeping Evil at Bay

Irenas Vow is the dramatization of the true story of Irena Gut, a Polish Roman Catholic who managed to hide 12 Jews in the cellar of a house occupied by a German major.

Theater Review | 'The Glass Cage': With a Fortune at Stake, Three Relatives Come Calling

J. B. Priestleys Glass Cage has the feel of a play stitched together with bits and pieces of the playwrights pet peeves, though in this smooth staging the seams rarely show.

Theater Review | 'In Conflict': Voices of Inexperience, Relating Wars Horrors

In Conflict is a sober and very affecting docudrama about veterans of the war in Iraq.

Arts, Briefly: Renovated TKTS Booth to Open

The discounted theater-ticket sales window is scheduled to reopen on Oct. 16.

Theater Review | 'Taboos': Whos Your Daddy? Your Uncle

Carl Djerassi's play works a scenario that grows increasingly improbably, but thanks to five solid performances, it is also entirely watchable.

Theater Review | 'The English Channel': Mystery of the Glovers Shy Son

Robert Brusteins playful, witty comedy takes place inside a tavern on the eve of Shakespeares theater career.

Theater Review | 'Oh What War': Congregation of the Damned in a No-Mans-Land Cabaret

World War I proves the right metaphor for our time in Oh What War, a scabrous, multimedia assault of a show.

Theater Review | 'Poetic License': High Drama Among the University Set

Witnessing Jack Canforas Poetic License, one becomes excited by the possibility that a major hit could be unfolding.

Theater Review | 'Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words': The Lives, Loves and Ducks of Luminary Literature

Celebrity Autobiography: In Their Own Words is a merry compendium of the witlessness and wisdom of the rich and famous.

Theater Review | 'A Streetcar Named Desire': Blanche and Stanley Again in French Quarter Squalor

Anyone lucky enough to catch Laila Robins in A Streetcar Named Desire, currently at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, will recognize a master at work.

Genre-Mixing Shows Are Born Here

The Here Artist Residency Program is one of New Yorks most established breeding grounds for aggressively experimental performance.

525,600 Minutes to Preserve

Rent remains a gripping chronicle of a generations plague years.

Habitats | The Parc Vendome, West 57th Street: A Theater Couples Off Broadway Oasis

After their children moved out, the composer Charles Strouse and his wife, Barbara Siman Strouse, found a new home on West 57th Street with space for their nicer things.

Theater Review | 'Wig Out!': Families Come in All Shapes and Hairstyles

Tarell Alvin McCraneys Wig Out! is a gutsy, pulsing portrait of uptown drag queens and the men who love them.

Theater Review | '13': Stranger in Strange Land: The Acne Years

Though it features a buoyant score and a book that dances on the borders of bad taste, 13 ultimately feels as pre-processed and formulaic as High School Musical.

Arts, Briefly: West Side Story Finds a Theater

The coming revival of West Side Story will open at the Palace Theater on March 19.

Arts, Briefly: Blonde to Close on Broadway

Legally Blonde, the Broadway musical adaptation of the hit 2001 Reese Witherspoon film comedy, will be closing Oct. 19, its producers said.

 

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