Review: Stephen Rea Is One Really Mad Man in ‘Cyprus Avenue’
David Ireland’s bruising drama presents a Northern Irish variation on a very topical archetype — the angry white male under siege
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Sleights of Hand With Cards, Coins and a Colander
The magicians Joshua Jay and Vitaly Beckman, both in one-man shows in Manhattan, are exploring uses of enchantment. And kitchen supplies.
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Photo CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times Review: In ‘Log Cabin,’ It’s Gay vs. Trans as the Rainbow Crumbles
A quippy Jesse Tyler Ferguson stars in Jordan Harrison’s shapeless look at what happens when the L.G.B.T. alliance starts to turn on itself.
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Photo CreditLauren Lancaster for The New York Times Wait, Leonard Bernstein Wrote a ‘Peter Pan’ Musical?
It’s not the Mary Martin vehicle you loved as a child. But Bernstein’s version is getting a rare revival at the Bard SummerScape festival.
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Photo CreditCarrie Zukoski ‘Antigone in Ferguson’ Will Come to Harlem Stage This Fall
The work is an adaptation of Sophocles’s Greek tragedy that was conceived in the wake of Michael Brown’s 2014 death in Missouri.
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Photo CreditDesiree Levesque When the Actors Are Students, and They’re Armed
As school shootings mount, educators face the question of how to present gunfire on stage amid students’ fears that their school could be next.
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Photo CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times ‘Surprised and Dismayed’: Readers Respond to Our Best 25 Plays List
What they liked, what they hated, who was left out and more disagreement about “Mr. Burns.”
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Photo CreditSara Krulwich/The New York Times British Plays Are Better. There, I Said It.
A London journalist takes pity on his New York colleagues and the “unadventurous” work they ended up championing.
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Photo CreditBryan Derballa for The New York Times For ‘Mary Page Marlowe,’ Six Actresses Share One Role
They portray the title character in this play by Tracy Letts. In a conversation, they talked about their work and the production.
