"The Marriage of Alice B. Toklas by Gertrude Stein" is a play not by Gertrude Stein but is a play by Edward Einhorn that is a play about marriage pretending to be a play about a play about a marriage.
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"Cost of Living," which could have been an identity play about people with disabilities, is thus so much greater: a play about disabilities with people.
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What seems like a play about free speech becomes a play about family dynamics and repressive religion and budding artists and young love and probably some other stuff, too.
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"That is not something you play about, bro," says Zavi.
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Just been to see "Brilliant Jerks," the play about Uber.
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"It is not a play about rape," Mr. Kwek said.
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Then again, this a play about discomfort and unnatural acts.
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I think it's the opposite of the play about Anna.
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" The result was "Shipwreck," subtitled "A History Play about 2017.
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"While this play has really resonated on a political level, we never set out as a company to make it a play about the administration, to make it a play about Donald Trump," he said.
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It was a play about 1789, which is the French Revolution.
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Benjamin Kunkel's play about global warming, Buzz, was published in 2014.
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The 351 Division I teams play about 30 regular season games.
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"Ink," a British play about the Murdoch family, is on Broadway.
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"Eureka Day" is a play about a school in Berkeley, Calif.
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"Eureka Day" is a play about a school in Berkeley, Calif.
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How could he leave a play about addiction on a high?
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He wrote and performed in a one-man play about Thoreau.
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Lauren Gunderson's play about chemistry — onstage and otherwise — ends its experiment.
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How could he leave a play about addiction on a high?
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In fact, he's writing a play about ghosts when the cyberchats begin.
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And why did you want to make a play about UK Garage?
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Rose Lewenstein: It's definitely a play about humans and not the Internet.
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Last year, Brandeis University canceled the production of a play about him.
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"It's not a play about him in any way," Mr. Norris said.
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Gracie Gardner's play about two teenage fencers picks up its swords again.
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Are toddlers ready for a play about the ravages of sexual jealousy?
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This is a play about affirmation and communion and sounding the alarm.
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I'd like to think he'd probably have written a play about it.
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She attended a play about welcoming immigrants with Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau.
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This all amounts to a morality play about the risks of short-termism.
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It is a play about what happens when women talk to each other.
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Paul Newman, an alumnus, was there directing a play about cross-country runners.
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VICE: Why did you decide to write a play about the Chinese Revolution?
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A lyrical play about female desire, pleasure and competing fears — being alone vs.
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More fundamentally it's a play about a metaphorical threat: the threat of erasure.
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Another was "Getting Through the Night," a 1976 play about four lonely women.
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"It's a play about populism," he said, taking a sip of his Chianti.
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Sarah Ruhl's play about a troupe of aging siblings flies off to Neverland.
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It's a paradox because what could be happy in a play about pain?
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Waters's offhand comment fascinated Hnath, who had once written a play about séances.
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The Roundabout revives Arthur Miller's play about family and loyalty, tables and chairs.
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Ayn Rand's favorite play, about a French swordsman and poet stymied in his
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The framework is Roman Catholic, but it's not really a play about religion.
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Ming Peiffer's play about the treacherous road to womanhood has reached its end.
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For a play about a former maid, "Vera Stark" is not especially orderly.
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Do you have a great idea for a play about, say, Hamlet's evil twin?
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"It's not an anti-Semitic play, it's a play about anti-Semitism," he said.
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Multiple Jacksonville defenders celebrated the play, about the only thing they had to enjoy.
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And they will play about four of those songs every time you see them.
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Kirsten has been writing a play about Belinda Sutton for the past few years.
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Sarah DeLappe's prizewinning play about a high school soccer team returns to the field.
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The #MeToo aspect is inevitable in a play about varieties of attraction and ownership.
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Kenneth Lonergan's wrenching play about a family fractured by memory loss finishes its run.
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Did you think it was presumptuous somehow to agree to a play about you?
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What made you want to write a play about the rise of the tabloids?
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Did reaction to Matthew Lopez's award-winning play about gay history vary by generation?
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It's a lighthearted high-school dramedy, rather than a morality play about patriotism and honor.
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Hector started her life in activism at age 9, writing a play about child abuse.
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It doesn't seem like a setup for a play about gender identity, but it is.
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Here is the person I am working with to develop a play about the war.
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This installment of season 5 centers around a play about the death of Kitty Genovese.
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Lucas Hnath's play about a familiar-sounding power couple will wrap up on June 23.
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Tarell Alvin McCraney's 2013 music-drenched play about a prep school choir arrives on Broadway.
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A dance company celebrates the 19th amendment and a play about Rupert Murdoch hits Broadway.
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Christopher Shinn directs a revival of his 2006 play about wars, both public and private.
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John Wulp's play about a medieval mystic and first-class self-publicist reaches its conclusion.
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Listen, I didn't have a play about myself before, and I was living very happily.
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So fitting and luminous for a play about women pilots fighting to go to space.
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Christina Masciotti's play about a shoe salesman with post-traumatic stress disorder ends its run.
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The play, about a clinic teetering between breakdown and survival, will begin performances in February.
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I wanted to make a play about a moment when something happens and something changes.
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Think of "Antigone," a play about rival claims to the meaning of law, or nomos.
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It's fun to talk in the van before we play about how many beers we'll have.
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Perhaps you remember Mr. G's magnum opus, a play about the dangers of teen drug use.
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"For me, making a play about something is the way I study it," Malloy told VanDerWerff.
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Which gives me about nine and a half hours of solid listening to play about with.
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I was cast as her son in a play about the night Thoreau spent in jail.
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The language, too, can seem awfully rich, perhaps deliberately in a play about oratory and faith.
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Amy Herzog's play about a single mother caring for her sick child ends its Off-Broadway.
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The movie term "losing the light," for instance, cuts two ways in a play about extinction.
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In Loy A. Webb's play about a marriage proposal gone awry, saying yes isn't so easy.
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A play about money and decline, it has been chewed over by those still on top.
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Lillian Hellman's play about an Ohio labor strike had an abbreviated stint on Broadway in 23.
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Bess Wohl's play about a couple considering divorce after 228 years of marriage opens on Broadway.
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Coach Terry Stotts told reporters Anthony would start at power forward and play about 2056 minutes.
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At wood shop, students build a set for "Anon(ymous)," a play about a young refugee.
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Zayd Dohrn's play, about secularism and fundamentalism among two first-generation American families, concludes its run.
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This 1982 play about drivers at an unlicensed cab company in Pittsburgh takes its final ride.
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"It's a play about middle age, and being in relationships for a long time," said Hickey.
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Florian Zeller's "The Father," a chilling, brain-addling play about dementia, was on Broadway in 2016.
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The justice was attending a play about conservative Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, who died last year.
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What was your take on "Eclipsed," Danai Gurira's play about female captives in the Liberian civil war?
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How did you come up with something so modern looking for a play about something so old?
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A new play about Amazon's working conditions is coming to a theater in Edinburgh, Scotland, in August.
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Amy Herzog's play about a single mother caring for her sick child ends its Off Broadway run.
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That's a daring choice for a play about racial representation, but it's a dare that pays off.
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This is a play about the care that people, and nations, owe to the weakest among them.
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PETER LIBBEY PETER LIBBEY Were you surprised to learn that there is a new play about Socrates?
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It's a play about a young black artist and the older, white art collector he's living with.
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Well, it's a timely moment for a play about a man whose American dream hasn't come true.
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I have this play about —" And I think to the artistic director I said, "about my uncle.
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Elizabeth Canavan, Florencia Lozano and David Zayas star in a play about demons, mostly the internal kind.
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It was Bella's daughter, Liz Abzug, who suggested that Mr. Fierstein create a play about her mother.
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In either case, this is a play about intrigue: amid palace dysfunction, a corpse-strewn power grab.
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J. T. Rogers's fact-based play about the origination of the Oslo peace accords finishes its run.
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When you write a play about that space, you are effectively inviting other people into it. Why?
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Andrew Upton's adaptation of an early Anton Chekhov play about provincial anomie winds down its Broadway run.
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His first play, about the revolutionary Haitian leader Henri Christophe, was produced in St. Lucia in 22009.
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Take "Mary Stuart", his play about the Queen of Scots, now on at the Almeida Theatre in London.
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Titus believes he was a geisha in a past life and wants to create a play about it.
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But the biggest mystery of all in this multistoried play about memory and neuropsychology is the human brain.
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Since this is a play about courtship, you might be tempted to call its inhabitants prisoners of love.
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But in this multistoried play about memory and neuropsychology, the biggest mystery of all is the human brain.
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He wants to transform Sophocles' "Ajax" into a contemporary play about post-traumatic stress disorder among American soldiers.
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I think this is probably the first play about China that's written with such an understanding of China.
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Richard Greenberg's overstuffed new play about family feuds and ethical choices turns a wedding comedy into a crisis.
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Max Posner's play about a grown son managing the finances of his ailing mother closes its purse strings.
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It's also a play about time and about how change can happen very slowly and then very quickly.
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It's a play about the failure of justice when it deals with unknowable midpoints instead of obvious extremes.
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Like "The Jungle," at St. Ann's Warehouse, and "Noura," at Playwrights Horizons, "Nassim" is a play about displacement.
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"It's a funny time to be doing a play about the end of the world," Mr. Radcliffe said.
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Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj's play about the fraught 1957 integration of an Arkansas public high school closes its books.
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Because, as you can understand if there were a play about you, it does feel a little odd.
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And in Tracy Letts's play about an Ohio woman, the heroine will be played by six of them.
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There's even been a play about the man, Kenneth Lin's "Kleptocracy," which premiered last January at Arena Stage.
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Matthew Aucoin and Sarah Ruhl have adapted "Eurydice," her play about the Orpheus story, for Los Angeles Opera.
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Now she is one of seven women recounting their suffering in a play about sexual violence in Lebanon.
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Joshua Harmon's wry and aching play about a gay man navigating a slowing social whirl arrives on Broadway.
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At Yaddo, he worked on his play "I Am My Own Wife," and a new play about castrati.
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She designed a fully practical caravan that revolved for a play about a bunch of Norwegian Elvis impersonators.
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Carrie Fisher's piece was a fun, complex play about the dizzying conundrum between love and freedom of adventure.
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A once-important actor who had written a play about Lord Byron and wanted to play the lead.
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Leah Nanako Winkler's Primary Stages play about a daughter returning home for her mother's chemotherapy wraps up treatment.
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The Transport Group's revival of Daniel Berrigan's 1971 play about a band of antiwar activists closes its case.
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Some of the audience had to sit on the stage to watch "Red Poem", a play about sexual exploitation.
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In 2005, she even wrote and starred in a play about two HIV-positive women called In the Continuum.
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The weighting of the scenes relative to one another was important, and something we had to play about with.
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The same thought was crossing all our minds: This was the night to see a play about Oscar Wilde.
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She had written a play about Biafra in high school, but decided it was dreadful and put it aside.
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The play — about the unusual back story to the 1993 Oslo peace accords — has an unusual back story itself.
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Presented in association with the Public Theater, "Quietly" is a play about what happens when a society loses control.
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Mr. Jacobs-Jenkins's play "An Octoroon" (2014) was a riff on a 19th-century play about illicit interracial love.
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It was theatrical in a way when bands would play about how we were in a new dark ages.
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And in what sort of play about libertinage do you have to wait 90 minutes for a decent flogging?
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"The Light," a play about a marriage proposal by Loy A. Webb, begins performances Wednesday in the smaller theater.
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It's a play about the confusion and anger of men who can't live with women or, apparently, without them.
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This approach makes a certain poetic sense in a play about the serendipitous and cataclysmic force of carnal love.
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The playwright and director Richard Maxwell revives his play about the relationship between a shelter worker and a resident.
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Tales short and tall populate Annie Baker's gently surrealistic play about writer's-room inhabitants in search of a story.
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Tales short and tall populate Annie Baker's gently surrealist play about writer's-room inhabitants in search of a story.
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This new play about women on a rooftop on the evening before Sally Ride's 9673 spaceflight ceases its orbit.
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This is decidedly not a feel-good play about mutually beneficial bonds formed across the racial and economic divides.
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"Fences," based on August Wilson's award-winning stage play about blue-collar African-Americans, claimed two major acting awards.
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For a play about a chilly place, "Alaxsxa / Alaska" is most absorbing when it eases up and thaws out.
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Shakespeare also wrote a play about an old king with three children among whom he must divide his kingdom.
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Or maybe she'll be one of those people who writes a play about being homeless a few years later.
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"I'm now 85," Ginsburg said, following an off-Broadway production of The Originalist, a play about late Justice Antonin Scalia.
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The DASH A can play about 10 hours of audio on each charge so you'll never be left speaker-less.
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In a play about America in the 1950s, you need era-appropriate clothing and furniture to make it seem real.
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My whole thing onstage is being ultra powerful and commanding, like I'm the lead in the school play about Stalin.
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MCC will present "Yen," a play about two teenage brothers that was written by Anna Jordan, with Trip Cullman directing.
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ASBURY PARK "The Bombing of Flint," new play about the Flint water crisis presented by the American Poetry Theater. Sept.
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Atwood reads The Tempest as a play about prisons, and viewed through that lens, all sorts of new resonances emerge.
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THEATER Max Posner's play about a grown son managing his ailing mother's finances, closes its purse strings on Nov. 5.
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He entered the play about the time I started talking about my own abortion and about violence in my family.
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First up is this 220 play about a moralist who balks at selling his business to a dance hall proprietor.
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At its best, though, "The Feral Detective" is a worthy morality play about our warring impulses for conflict and comfort.
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"Light Shining in Buckinghamshire" is, after all, a play about equity and representation among people usually powerless over their lives.
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"Ink," a new British play about the rise of Rupert Murdoch, will have its American premiere on Broadway next spring.
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Either way, it would be a mistake to see "Cost of Living" as an identity play about people with disabilities.
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It keeps our interest not only on its narrowest terms, as a play about writing, but in its larger implications.
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Read: The writer Matthew Lopez discusses "The Inheritance," his two-part play about gay culture and the legacy of AIDS.
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Lucas Hnath's slyly structured play, about a psychic and her friend, has multiple threads and a 90-minute running time.
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A play about gay men's relationships is no more seen as an "issue" play than one about straight people's relationships.
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"Pig's feet!" she cries to passing neighbors, as she does in a play about her life written by Daniel Carlton.
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He might wear women's hats in this play about Bella Abzug, but he will not perform fully in women's clothing.
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But "The Workshop" isn't a satire of creative-writing factories but a play about ideals, especially of the crushed kind.
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To celebrate, the theater will kick off its season with a play about an enthusiastic response to an inanimate object.
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David Cale's solo play about a shy Midwesterner who invents an irresistible alter ego ends its Audible-sponsored encore run.
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The revelers did not know that the ball was also a morality play about animal welfare, genetic manipulation and veganism.
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I wrote a play about it, but when I reflect on torture today, it is another play that haunts me.
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They had been rehearsing a play about a Filipino revolutionary who fought the colonial Spanish, the Americans, and the landlords.
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Rachel Bonds's play about an artistically gifted but emotionally challenged family, directed by Anne Kauffman, sounds its last, yearning chords.
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A fighter's taunting pose inspired this artwork for Marco Ramirez's play about a black boxer in the Jim Crow South.
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First up is this 2866 play about a moralist who balks at selling his business to a dance hall proprietor.
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I got a chance to play about half of the roughly 70 launch titles that will be live on Steam today.
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His debut was Glengarry Glen Ross, James Foley's adaptation of David Mamet's legendary play about capitalism, desperation, and real estate salesmanship.
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In 2012, Frei released a short film called Plug & Play, about two characters that look like electrical plugs, navigating relationship issues.
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She might have written a similar play about workers in a fast-food outlet or a chain store in a mall.
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The problem with Breaking Bad, as I saw it, is that it became a voyeuristic morality play about manhood and power.
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The Avalanche captain scored his first goal of the night on the power play about seven minutes into the second period.
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"All the Way," a play about Lyndon B. Johnson, won a slew of awards and was turned into an HBO film.
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Teams in the former only play about twice a week, with games spread between the Euroleague and their own national league.
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"Three Days of Rain," Greenberg's 1997 play about the mistaken assumptions children make about their parents, was also a Pulitzer finalist.
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THEATER Amy Herzog's play, about a single mother caring for her sick child, ends its Off Broadway run on Oct. 29.
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The view from the balcony, rather like that in an operating theater, perfectly fit this play about observation of the mundane.
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Last year, Brandeis University canceled a Michael Weller play about Lenny Bruce after students and faculty protested its depictions of minorities.
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His breakthrough came in 2012 with "This House," an improbably entertaining play about the machinations of the British Parliament in 1974.
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The Transport Group travels back to the Vietnam War for this play about antiwar activists that ran on Broadway in 1971.
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Go: "Ink," James Graham's invigorating play about London journalism, goes on a journey to the tabloid underworld — and the American present.
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Go: "Ink," James Graham's invigorating play about London journalism goes on a journey to the tabloid underworld — and the American present.
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This is a play about class, ambition and self-determination, but it's even more concerned with the suffocating effects of paternalism.
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Go: "Ink," James Graham's invigorating play about British journalism, goes on a journey to the tabloid underworld — and the American present.
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The Front PageThis play about 1920s journalists is a jubilant three hours of watching men scream into two phones at once!
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But as a play about self-care and honoring the female body, "Coconut" makes an uplifting finish to a grim program.
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The two later attended "Come From Away," a Broadway play about Canada sheltering travelers whose flights were diverted after the Sept.
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Go: "Angels in America," Tony Kushner's epic play about the AIDS crisis in the United States, is now playing in Paris.
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Ressa attended Princeton — her classmates included Bezos, a casual acquaintance — and wrote a play about Philippine politics for her senior thesis.
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But he enjoyed critical acclaim and commercial success with "The Hot l Baltimore," a Lanford Wilson play about down-and-outers.
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Theater This 1982 play about drivers at an unlicensed cab company in Pittsburgh will take its final ride on March 12.
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This is ultimately a play about the balm of friendship, and there's not a whiff of sappiness or condescension to it.
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The Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Scott McPherson's 2393 play about illness, death and wig styling goes to its final rest.
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The Roundabout Theater Company's revival of Scott McPherson's 1991 play about illness, death and wig styling goes to its final rest.
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David Mamet's play about three low-level crooks conjuring up a get-rich-quick scheme is returning to Broadway next year.
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Walking into the party wearing Chuck Taylors, I felt miscast in a play about a little girl trying to fit in.
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Samuel D. Hunter's creaky play about the downsizing of the American West features terrific performances by Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan.
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Augustin Daly's 1862 play about the forbidden love between a Christian man and an immigrant Jewish woman wraps up its run.
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A play about race, though not only about race, it includes a series of gestures and invitations that divide the audience.
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In 1966, just after directing the Coward play, he directed "After the Rain," John Bowen's play about survivors of a flood.
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Directed by Trip Cullman, Tarell Alvin McCraney's play about prep-school boys warbling their way toward maturity performs its final encores.
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Mr. Dufault ("Year of the Rooster") will present "The Tomb of King Tot," a play about a cartoonist, directed by Portia Krieger.
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"I would not care," Shkreli's voice coolly replies when Esher asks what he would think if someone did a play about him.
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She describes it as a memory play about growing up in Michigan, but it is just as much about her current life.
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Kilmer, however, continues making promotional plans for his movie "Cinema Twain," a filmed version of his one-man play about Mark Twain.
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Now, Ishmael Reed has taken his beef to its logical meta conclusion, and written an entire play about how much Hamilton sucks.
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"A Woman of the World" turns out to be a play about the particularly American need to self-make and self-mythologize.
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Her early efforts included a play about a coyote and a short story about a Native American boy whose home is destroyed.
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That's one of the questions the playwright Mac Rogers asks in his adaptation of Karel Capek's 1921 play about humans and automatons.
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I've seen you play about three times now and when songs like "Poppin" or "Key Lime OG" come on, people lose it.
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Lin-Manuel Miranda is a character, and his hit musical is a punching bag, in Ishmael Reed's didactic play about historical correctness.
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Seattle's team also will have an instant rivalry with the Vancouver Canucks, who play about three hours by car to the north.
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Christopher Demos-Brown's play, about a mother waiting in a Florida police station for news of her missing son, ends its vigil.
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But "American Son," a Kerry Washington-backed play about the fraught relationship between young black men and the police, got no nominations.
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And my guide was Mr. Bean, whose play about snooker, "The Nap," begins previews at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater on Sept.
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Unless he has a setback, Gregorius is expected to play about five more games in the minor leagues before rejoining the Yankees.
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Baseball also plays a role in "Fences," August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about love and contention in a 1950s Pittsburgh household.
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I first discovered the girls' story through directing a play about them in 2015, "These Shining Lives," by Melanie Marnich, in London.
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Some leading critics have objected to the transformation of Williams's subtle play about a family enveloped in denial into something more strident.
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The playwright and director S. Asher Gelman follows up "Afterglow," a provocative play about an open marriage, with another sexually charged drama.
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In 2014, Ms. Rourke directed a short run of James Graham's "Privacy," a genre-bending play about government surveillance and cyber security.
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There was the boy who courageously confronted his years of sexual abuse by writing, and then acting in, a play about his experiences.
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There he encounters the Living and the Dead Ensemble as they attempt to "creolize" Monsieur Toussaint, Édouard Glissant's 1961 play about his death.
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And a new adaptation of a three-part play about the history of Lehman has just opened at the National Theatre in London.
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Lysistrata is a play about women who collectively withhold sex from their male partners to pressure them into abandoning their war-making ways.
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Longfellow's oil assets are located in Oklahoma's STACK play, about 40 km from SK E&P America's existing Oklahoma field, the statement said.
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The Pew Research Center released a study titled "Gender, generation and partisanship come into play about raising boys and girls" on Dec. 5.
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Mr. Weaver made his Broadway debut in 21988 in "The Chalk Garden," Enid Bagnold's play about the woes of an aristocratic British family.
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Ginsburg spoke in New York following a production of "The Originalist," a play about the late Justice Antonin Scalia, at the 59E59 Theater.
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In a play about queer people hungering for love, romantic folly is only a small speed bump on the way to a relationship.
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Harrison David Rivers has won the 2018 Relentless Award for "The Bandaged Place," a play about an abusive relationship between two gay men.
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The challenge in writing a play about Socrates is that Plato already wrote more than a dozen episodes of Socrates talking to people.
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"The Lehman Trilogy" comes with an easy appeal to wealthy audiences beyond the mere fact that it's a play about an investment bank.
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In fact, he wrote a play about it—a play that was performed over 250,000 times (don't worry, we'll get into that later).
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David Harrower's play about a woman, a farmer, a miller and the worlds that unfurl when language is learned speaks its last sentence.
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Hollins, the third baseman for the Philadelphia Phillies, would play about a thousand games in the major leagues, and that was his worst.
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David Zellnik's "Blue Handed" is the most poetic piece of the bunch, a spare, two-actor play about guilt and abuse of power.
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Toshiki Okada's play, about a man wrestling with private grief in the wake of the nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Japan, ends its run.
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The neighborhood is referrred to constantly, insistently, but doesn't come to life in Pearl Cleage's play about a nightclub singer from the 1930s.
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On the one hand, a play about these two Bush brothers would seem to have passed its expiration date: Haven't we moved on?
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The theater recently staged a play about an interracial romance, another about homophobia, and a musical about Ladysmith Black Mambazo, the gospel choir.
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The tallies vary in "The Antipodes," Annie Baker's in-all-ways fabulous new play about professional fabulators in pursuit of the ultimate yarn.
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I've twice pulled out my big adjectives for Jeremy O. Harris's play about three interracial couples on an "antebellum sexual performance therapy" retreat.
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One morning, while we were eating breakfast, I told Klaus that I didn't quite understand why he was writing a play about Trunov.
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As a travel ban is threatened, this play about assimilation and the different ways of being American has come to feel very personal.
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Though a mother's work is never done, Jane Anderson's "robustly sentimental" play about the woman who raised Joan of Arc will soon be.
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In working on the play, about a charm class for young queer people, Davis discovered a way to shake his negative connotations of etiquette.
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Onstage, in Danai Gurira's play about women entangled in a civil war in Liberia, she is incandescent, fierce and gentle, moving with tenacious grace.
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" And there's a new Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's "The Crucible," the most famous play about the anxiety of witchcraft this side of "Macbeth.
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Last year, the National Theatre's youth arm cancelled "Homegrown", a play about radicalisation written by two young British Muslims, in the middle of rehearsals.
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"I'm just a Harlem girl," said Ms. Sapp, 27, an author of "Renaissance in the Belly of a Killer Whale," a play about gentrification.
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"Jerusalem", a play about Englishness by Jez Butterworth that ranged from folk culture to drug-fuelled rave parties, was a huge hit in London.
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MEASURE FOR MEASURE Simon Godwin directs Shakespeare's problematic play about repression, lust and hypocrisy — a few human characteristics that never go out of style.
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LINDENHURST "Year of the Iguana," by Claude Solnik, world premiere of a play about Tennessee Williams's family life and how it inspired his characters.
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" — SETH MEYERS "That's right, a new play about Hillary Clinton will open on Broadway next year, and critics are already calling for an investigation.
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Even when the theater department mounted a play about a girl with cerebral palsy, a nondisabled student was chosen over Zayid for the part.
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In 2002, Aaron Sorkin asked me to write an episode of "The West Wing" that was shot as a play about a single character.
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Adrienne Kennedy's brief, fragmentary play about an interracial romance in the Jim Crow South brings its lovers together and apart for the last time.
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Vinie Burrows, Rob Campbell and Mikéah Ernest Jennings star in a play about Levellers, Ranters and a time when a nation almost remade itself.
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But while the gender-swapping casting works beautifully here, this is not a play about the subjugation and erasure of women in public life.
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The connection between a three-course meal (star: roast beef salad) and a play about a newscaster going bonkers (star: Bryan Cranston) is tenuous.
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"This production may trigger an adverse reaction," Baltimore Center Stage said of "Wasted," a play about the aftermath of an alcohol-fueled sexual encounter.
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The Met also plans to stage Jeanine Tesori's opera "Grounded," based on the George Brant play about a pregnant pilot who conducts drone warfare.
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Ms. LuPone knew Furth socially and worked with him on a one-woman play about a radio host that never got off the ground.
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INK James Graham's play about the rise of the media mogul (and Donald Trump pal) Rupert Murdoch was a hit in London last year.
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Michael Urie stars in Harvey Fierstein's play about a drag queen longing for a husband, children and the love of his mother (Mercedes Ruehl).
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And there are bigger questions at play about Trump's accountability, and that of individuals who would try to excuse utterly inexcusable and dangerous conduct.
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Theater Andrew Upton's adaptation of an early Anton Chekhov play about provincial anomie winds down its Broadway run ahead of a March 19 close.
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But as much as this is a play about dismantling an ugly legacy, it is even more about constructing something better in its place.
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There is so much in the play about the spectacular beauty of life on this planet, and we're going to get some of that.
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"I think it's a great play about the sustainability of marriage — how brutal it can be, and how hilarious it can be," he said.
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Maybe that is the not-so-subtle message telegraphed by Chris Harcum's hagiographical play about a certain denizen of the New York theater scene.
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They attended "Come From Away," a play about a town in Newfoundland that welcomed travelers from across the globe in the days after Sept.
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"He is emblematic of the American character," said Julia Idlis, a Russian writer who wrote a play about Mr. Paulson that premiered in Moscow.
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If at all, Tituba is most commonly remembered for Arthur Miller's characterisation of her in his classic play about the Salem witch trials, The Crucible.
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Drew Gooden's miniature play about trying to sell a lamp on Facebook Marketplace will resonate with anyone who has ever tried to sell anything online.
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It's raining metaphors in "for all the women who thought they were Mad," Zawe Ashton's densely poetic play about racial alienation in the big city.
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Pub date: April The acclaimed poet and essayist publishes her first play, about a wealthy Manhattan couple and the emerging artist they invite to dinner.
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I bet when Lupita told her theater producers that she wanted to do "Eclipsed," a play about victimized women in Africa, no one yelled hurray.
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Matt Damon and Ben Affleck's friendship is long-documented — Mindy Kaling and Brenda Winters even wrote and performed a play about the two of them.
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Of course, the great risk of staging a play about crushing ennui and profound dissatisfaction is the possibility of instilling those feelings in the audience.
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The production aims for universals; it is a play about the Liam-types who haunt every city—the worldwide problem of the lost young man.
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During an onstage interview this summer following a performance in New York of a play about her late friend Antonin Scalia, Ruth Bader Ginsburg, a.k.a.
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"I don't want people to be able to walk away from a play about slavery and say, 'Oh, well, that's not about 2018,'" he said.
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In Greg Pierce's play about returns and restorations, a woman returns to her hometown with a colorful plan for urban renewal — paint the place red.
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New York, 2006 "The History Boys," a play about a group of British boarding school students, was a first for Mr. Corden in many ways.
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"My initial approach to the piece was that Hathaway was an American 'Amadeus' story," he said, referring to Peter Shaffer's award-winning play about Mozart.
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"Our intention wasn't to make a play about anti-Semitism, but about hatred in general, of which anti-Semitism is just one type," he added.
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A play about the Lehman brothers will arrive next year in New York, the city where the financial firm bearing their name collapsed in 2008.
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Under John Collins's direction, the company takes a slapstick approach to Shakespeare's problem play about a would-be nun and a couple of untrustworthy rulers.
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When, against her parents' wishes, she auditioned for drama schools, she chose a monologue from Sarah Kane's "4.48 Psychosis," a play about depression and suicide.
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Rather than offer a biographical play about the life of the composer John Cage, the director Anne Bogart decided to make a game of it.
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Joining Ms. Negga in the lead categories was Mr. Washington of "Fences," an adaptation of August Wilson's classic play about black life in 1950s Pittsburgh.
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Andrew M. Cuomo said the team would play about half of its 41 home games at Nassau Coliseum until the new arena opens in 2021.
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Go: The fourth wall breaks in "Suicide Forest," a play about Japanese-American identity, revealing something so heart-stingingly tender that the whole work shifts.
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As the title suggests, with its nod to Virginia Woolf, "A Room of My Own" means to be a play about how Carl became a writer.
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In particular, it was a performance of Bent, a play about the persecution of gays in Nazi Germany, that opened Cooper's eyes to his own orientation.
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But in the neat residential quarters where the families live, the green-painting buildings are freshly swept, and children play about as the women do laundry.
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They play about the same role in the ocean as earthworms do on land, breaking down particles so their nutrients are more available in the ecosystem.
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They have a friendship so strong, in fact, that the delightful Mindy Kaling and her friend Brenda Withers were inspired to write a play about them.
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A play about the life-sustaining power of art-making and the soul-extinguishing peril of selling out, it valorizes suffering in the pursuit of greatness.
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John Legend, the Oscar-winning musician, has signed on to produce a new Off Broadway play about Dick Gregory, the influential comedian and civil rights activist.
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I met up with playwright Rose Lewenstein and director Russell Bender at the Southwark Playhouse to discuss how they brought a play about technology to life.
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Anything is based on a Timothy McNeil play about a Southern widower named Early Landry, whose sister relocates him to Los Angeles after several suicide attempts.
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Mr. Blum's other TV credits include the HBO movie "The Normal Heart," an Emmy Award-winning adaptation of Larry Kramer's 1985 play about the AIDS crisis.
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In 21992 he received a Tony Award for directing "The Shadow Box," Michael Cristofer's play about three groups of people facing death at a large hospital.
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With fragmentary scenes and jump cuts, "Fire in Dreamland" is a play about moviemaking, about the ways in which history and memory are redeployed as art.
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A. We want to make sure ideas have a place to flourish, independent of what the commercial marketplace may say about a play about sex work.
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He was indefinitely detained without a trial because he dared to write a play about the complicity of Kenya's rulers in the plundering of the country.
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Ms. Wohl, best known for the silent-retreat comedy "Small Mouth Sounds," is making her Broadway debut with the play, about a long marriage coming apart.
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His hour of reckoning takes place during a performance of a school play about a zombie apocalypse, during which he wrestles with his bad cyber angel.
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Andrew M. Cuomo announced Monday that the Islanders would play about half of their games at their former home, splitting time with Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
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And though you could argue that the bountiful report of firearms is justified in a play about violence, you could just as easily argue the opposite.
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He writes: Spinetti eventually collaborated with Lennon on a theatrical version of the circle jerk story, and John wrote a play about jerking off with Paul.
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And a few topical jokes and moments of meta-reference (the Son's own son is a dramatist, writing a play about his grandmother) are irritatingly facile.
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Brandeis University canceled an upcoming play about the comedian Lenny Bruce after some students and faculty expressed outrage about its content, the school announced on Monday.
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The Signature Theater's production of Stephen Adley Guirgis's play about a group of oddballs who gather to mourn a beloved nun prepares to rest in peace.
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It is, after all, a play about a psychiatrist — and not only that, but a psychiatrist who made history at an earlier annual meeting, in Dallas.
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Acclaimed in London, the two-part play about gay culture and the legacy of AIDS drew a chillier response in New York, where it is set.
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Mr. Miller's stage directing career began in 21993, with John Osborne's one-act play about sexual fetishes, "Under Plain Cover," at the Royal Court in London.
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It's no surprise that this play about disillusionment, with its message of hope wrapped in warnings about nationalism and isolationism, was a choice for this season.
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Storms demolished a couple homes around the southwestern Missouri community of Fair Play, about a 140-mile drive south of Kansas City, CNN affiliate KOLR reported.
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It's a three-act play about how no one appreciates life until it's over, and it's performed almost every night in America by high-school students.
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Their primary competition seems to be the teams closest to Cole's home: the Angels, who play about five miles from Cole's high school in Orange, Calif.
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Rather than offer a biographical play about the life of the composer John Cage, the director Anne Bogart has decided to make a game of it.
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Westerman told NOS on Sunday he had received an e-mail from a Belgian theatre company which is staging a play about a famed art forger.
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MCC unleashes Anna Jordan's play about two teenage siblings who are neglected by their mother and neglect their dog (named Taliban, "because he's vicious") in turn.
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But as a play about welcoming outsiders, "Come From Away" also highlighted the different approaches to immigration and refugees being taken by the two countries' governments.
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Her new play, about two strangers who meet in the cancer hospital where their mothers share a room, is another darkly comic distortion of real life.
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His final project at Yale, from which he graduated in 1947 with a master of fine arts degree, was a play about working with the maharajah.
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I would have preferred a play about Astoria Greengrass, Ginny Weasley's sports pages, or, hell, even the Trolley Witch over Cursed Child's retreading of familiar ground.
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We are the ultimate closers, you are taught, embracing the winners-and-losers philosophy espoused in "Glengarry Glen Ross," David Mamet's play about real estate sales.
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This week, watch a play about Surrealist fistfights, hear a late masterwork from avant-garde composer Morton Feldman, attend a political sign-making workshop, and more.
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Indecent, by 65-year-old playwright Paula Vogel in her Broadway playwriting debut, is a visually stunning and emotionally heartbreaking play about how art and culture intertwine.
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By local standards, the Comédie-Française debut of "Angels in America," Tony Kushner's epic play about the AIDS crisis in the United States, is a curious success.
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Fences, by August Wilson Wilson's challenging play—about an African American man struggling to provide for his family in the 1950s—is no stranger from critical acclaim.
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" Offerings from Chile include "Atacama," an experimental play about the Alma Observatory in the Chilean desert; and "La Tempestad," the playwright Juan Radrigán's version of "The Tempest.
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In 2011, when she had at last started working again, the idea of making a play about Price was also, therefore, about putting herself back centre-stage.
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The play, about a troubled 1950s family, won three Tony awards including best revival of a play and best actor and best actress for Washington and Davis.
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Let's begin with the state of play about the immigration promises made by Trump, who increasingly sounds like President Obama in his rapidly changing comments on immigration.
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Advertise on Hyperallergic with Nectar Ads There is hardly any dialogue in Small Mouth Sounds, a play about six weekend retreaters who have taken vows of silence.
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The 50th anniversary of the crime, as well as Moseley's death, has brought further reappraisals; a recent episode of "Girls" featured characters attending a play about Kitty.
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What happens to Lacie amounts to an exaggerated morality play about the dangers of conformity and the small pleasures of individuality, but the broadest gestures don't matter.
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In writing a play about the gay scene, Superficial, I noticed how the use of the phrases "masc4masc" and "no fems" have risen on hook-up apps.
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As the most memorable line in "Incognito," the cryptic new play about memory by the young British playwright Nick Payne, it is fraught with mystery and anguish.
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He had greater success Off Broadway with "Poor Little Lambs" (1982), Paul Rudnick's play about a year in the life of the Yale singing group the Whiffenpoofs.
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The British playwright Lucy Prebble ("Enron") raises the question in "The Effect," her play about a clinical drug trial that had its premiere in London in 2012.
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"Cost of Living," Martyna Majok's intense play about connectedness, caregiving and disability that this year won the Pulitzer Prize for drama, is being adapted into a musical.
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Cora put his finger to his head, signaling that Bregman should think before the play about what he would do if the ball was hit to him.
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Rupert Murdoch has a couple of small quibbles with "Ink," the British play about his rise as a media mogul, which he saw Tuesday night on Broadway.
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"Uncommon Sense," Tectonic Theater Project's new Off Broadway play about people with autism and their families, has an actor on the spectrum, Andrew Duff, in its ensemble.
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"This is a simple-minded play about men who enjoy killing — and those who don't," Penelope, played by Kate MacCluggage, tells the audience right at the top.
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As global markets plummeted amid public health concerns last week, the president spent 45 minutes meeting with actors in a play about the so-called Deep State.
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They wanted them to star in a buddy comedy, their own sitcom, a two-woman play about presenting the Academy Award for Best Documentary Short Subject — anything.
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It is a tactic used by the Canadians since 2002; this year, they will play about three games per week against 18-and-under teams in Alberta.
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On the smaller Nikos Stage, I attended a matinee of Jen Silverman's "Dangerous House," a harrowing play about violence against lesbians and gay men in South Africa.
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This year, there are at least three muggings of the American president: "Trump'd," a musical; "Trumpageddon," a comedy show; and "Trumpus Interruptus," a play about impeaching him.
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In 21975 he was nominated for a Tony as best director for "Find Your Way Home," John Hopkins's play about a woman dealing with her husband's infidelity.
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Across town at the Almeida, another fine theater actor, Tobias Menzies, is starring in a play about a mild-seeming individual whose life unexpectedly cracks wide open.
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" In addition to the bathtub play, WalkUpArts's upcoming projects include Santos Schaffer's " Baby Jessica's Well-Made Play " and a revival of his " A Play About Drew Carey .
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A virtuosic male performance is the raison d'être of "Continuity," the fledgling playwright Gerry Moynihan's solo play about a dissident Irish Republican, Padraig, that runs through Aug.
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Inspired by her father's sportsmanship, Ms. Yee, winner of the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize, has written a play about a college basketball team that travels to China.
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Instead she is starring in Lily Thorne's play about a nonagenarian trying to put her affairs in order as three generations of her family help and hinder.
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Chinese state security officials confronted her family and former colleagues in Henan to press her to cancel the London production of the play about her, she said.
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Ike Holter's play about the Stonewall uprising, "Hit the Wall," which opened at the Barrow Theater in Manhattan in 2013, came out of the Garage Rep program.
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She found herself thinking how odd it was to be inside rehearsing a play about protests when you could just go outside and join a real one.
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Since its wide release on Christmas Day, "Fences," an adaptation of August Wilson's play about a black family in 1950s Pittsburgh, has taken in about $32.7 million.
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It was a play about Kant and Newton as 13-year-old boys trying to date girls and debating the nature of space, and it's really funny.
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Midway through this season, Arya Stark—a survivor of family trauma, like almost everyone on the series—watches a Punch-and-Judyish play about her clan's history.
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WP Theater and Colt Coeur present Rehana Lew Mirza's play about a literature professor (Kavi Ladnier) and the novelist (Sendhil Ramamurthy) she may or may not detest.
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"More than other Hamlets I've seen recently I would say it is a play about grief," Kemp, who has managed to see the play before its debut, revealed.
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But like just about everyone else in America, all four have expressed their admiration for "Hamilton," Lin-Manuel's breathlessly feel-good play about one of America's founding fathers.
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"I don't want people to be able to walk away from a play about slavery and say, 'Oh, well, that's not about 2018,'" he told the NY Times.
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But when her friend Bill Rauch, the artistic director of the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, first asked if she would be interested in writing a play about Roe v.
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Mr. Weaver won a Tony in 21977 for his role in Robert Marasco's drama "Child's Play," about the malevolent environment at an exclusive Roman Catholic school for boys.
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A play about how well we can ever know each other, or even ourselves, it's a meet-cute that turns ugly, a rom-com that goes very wrong.
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The play, about the grown wizard's troubled relationship with his teen-aged son, has 10 nominations and at $69 million is the most expensive play in Broadway history.
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So, JJ Redick is going to play about the same amount of minutes, and he can come into the game and do the same things that he does.
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"I was very moved by Leah's play about a family caught between cultures, set in the final weeks of a mother's life," Mr. Akhtar said in a statement.
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Last fall, Omar-S sent us an exclusive 1993 cassette mix from his archives, and his sister recently directed a play about the secret history of Detroit techno.
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And it rarely stays the same shape during this one-woman play about sex, longing and what churns beneath them, directed with finely gauged precision by Vicky Jones.
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A plurality in our survey favors last summer's starry production of "The Boys in the Band," which is Mart Crowley's early gay play about an unsettling birthday party.
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"The Jungle," a new British play about a French refugee camp, was an obvious candidate to transfer to New York: critically lauded, commercially successful, timely and talked about.
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It involves word play about evil spirits — called djinns in Arabic — and the alcoholic spirit gin, as well as references to pagan traditions and, in one line, Christianity.
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Mr. Longhurst, 37, has staged only one show at the Donmar: Amy Herzog's "Belleville" — a play about the unraveling relationship of an American couple in Paris — in 2017.
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Geraldine Inoa's play, about a group of friends in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn, coping with the police-involved shooting death of an unarmed black teenager, pays its last respects.
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SHAKE AND BAKE: LOVE'S LABOUR'S LOST Enjoy an eight-course tasting menu, with wine pairing, as you take in a production of Shakespeare's play about women outsmarting men.
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Alley Theatre's premier of "Describe the Night," a play about a Russian spy written by playwright Rajiv Joseph, was scheduled for next week at the ruined Neuhaus stage.
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Bruce Norris's play about a young woman (Celia Keenan-Bolger) who meets her future self (Anita Gillette) via an especially high-tech remote control is ending its run.
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Yet it is also in a sense a father-daughter play, about getting one last chance to be in the presence of a parent who isn't around anymore.
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A veteran of the newspaper that covered Vincent A. Cianci Jr.'s travails gets all the inside jokes in "The Prince of Providence," the hit play about him.
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That haunting rendering of a panic attack provides the strongest moment in "Pipeline," Dominique Morisseau's passionate but frustratingly unresolved play about a family struggling to outrun social prophecy.
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A rare play about a barber, "Sheppey" is in some ways the exact antithesis to "Sweeney Todd," that murderously minded Sondheim musical that follows its own follicular path.
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The scandalous 2239 Yiddish play about an Orthodox Jewish brothel owner and his rebellious daughter, the inspiration for Paula Vogel's Broadway-bound "Indecent," finishes its Off Broadway run.
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This scandalous 1907 Yiddish play about an Orthodox Jewish brothel owner and his rebellious daughter, the inspiration for Paula Vogel's Broadway-bound "Indecent," finishes its Off Broadway run.
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The action of "Dance Nation," Clare Barron's play about a dance troupe snarling at the edge of puberty, ricochets between the girls' locker room and the dance studio.
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With her "Eclipsed" soon to appear on Broadway, Ms. Gurira is also busy a few blocks away with this new play about cross-cultural conflict at a Minnesota wedding.
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With her "Eclipsed" soon to appear on Broadway, Ms. Gurira is also busy a few blocks away, with this new play about cross-cultural conflict at a Minnesota wedding.
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My theater company, The Civilians, together with the Kansas City Repertory Theatre and the Public Theater, produced what was the first major American play about climate change in 2014.
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Jean P. Bordewich was staff director of the Senate Committee on Rules and Administration from 2009-2014, and is author of "HUNT," a play about the blackmail of Sen.
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And, finally, this is a playwright who almost certainly penned the critical lines we find preserved in the British Library's manuscript of an Elizabethan play about Sir Thomas More.
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This is a heavily confused play about cultural confusion, a consideration of identity — racial, social, political, anthropological, even biological — that never settles into a coherent identity of its own.
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Callow, who has performed a one-man play about Wagner, assesses the composer's music in the light of his copious essays, letters, and other writings in this lively biography.
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A theater-of-the-absurd play about the daily routine of an utterly ordinary family living in a beautiful, sunny apartment, without a care or worry in the world.
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Taylor Mac's "Hir," seen last fall at Playwrights Horizons, while not expressly a play about the decline of the middle class, nevertheless tackles the subject in a sidelong manner.
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With her Harry Potter stage play about to debut in London's West End, J.K. Rowling has once again demonstrated her level-headed approach to dealing with the internet's haters.
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In 20013, "Zoot Suit," Luis Valdez's musical play about Chicano gangs in 1940s Los Angeles, opened at the Mark Taper Forum, with Edward James Olmos in the lead role.
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Ms. Scher's poster for "Our Town" takes a minimalist approach, mirroring the ordered storytelling of Thornton Wilder's 1938 play about life and death in a small New Hampshire town.
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Manual Cinema, a Chicago troupe that uses shadow and light to otherworldly effect, arrives at BAM with this puppet play about what happens when Death takes some personal days.
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Flecked with comedy and soothed with song, it's a beautiful, ultimately mournful play about where the United States went wrong — on race, on gender — way back at the start.
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Ms. Roughan was coming off work on "People, Places & Things," Duncan Macmillan's play about addiction and recovery that transferred from the West End to St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
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Its action stalked by a silent male figure called the Faceless Ghost, this is a play about women devoted to, and consumed with, men who don't return the favor.
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But in recent years especially, it is also a high-stakes play about faithfulness and disappointment, and a lesson on how private narratives can make for transformative public art.
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Critic's Notebook At the close of Anna Ziegler's "Actually," a play about an accusation of sexual misconduct on an Ivy League campus, a feather flutters down from the ceiling.
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And differences of geographical origin are just the start of the complexities that besiege Minsung and Nanhee in this overwhelming play about being overwhelmed in a very confusing century.
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Part of the Next Door at NYTW series, it's a play about societal rot, and how desperate a person has to be to flee one terrible danger for another.
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He also wrote a historical novel, "The Louisiana Purchase" (22010), and a play about presidential lore, "The White House," starring Helen Hayes, that ran briefly on Broadway in 253.
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That at any rate is how we meet her in "Bella Bella," Harvey Fierstein's cobbled-together PowerPoint of a play about the firebrand New York congresswoman of the 133s.
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His mother had been asking him to write a play about her for a long time, he explained, and in 2016 he'd finally found a way to do so.
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The play, about siblings who reunite after their father's death, will be directed by Scott Ellis, a Tony Award nominee for Roundabout's revival of "She Loves Me" last year.
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THE CRUCIBLE Arthur Miller's play about the Salem witch trials, written in 212 as an allegory for McCarthyism, is sure to have some interesting reverberations in 22 America, too.
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You're supposed to like the play, about a Toronto variety store run by a family of Korean-Canadians, in part because it would just be darn rude not to.
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A white elementary school teacher has been placed on administrative leave after casting to black students in "A Triangle of Trade," a play about the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
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When this classic play about a couple wandering the wastelands of apartheid had its debut in South Africa in 1969, its white author, Athol Fugard, played Boesman in blackface.
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In the acting categories, Globe voters noted performers like Viola Davis and Denzel Washington, both nominated for "Fences," an adaptation of August Wilson's play about race and family relations.
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Johnson himself hinted he saw it as treason, hiding a quote from Shakespeare's play about political murder, "Julius Caesar", in his speech announcing his decision not to stand on Thursday.
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But last year's Feud: Bette and Joan didn't rise to the same level; the House of Murphy instead turned a mythical rivalry into an ultimately pat morality play about misogyny.
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Some games on there aren't really all that weird—last week's Free Play about lost memories was more poignant and picturesque—but sometimes, they really live up to the label.
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"This Time" is a skillfully constructed, beautifully acted play about one woman's quest for liberation at a time and in a place where that struggle could not have been easy.
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She is Maima, currently strutting across a stage on Broadway, an AK-47 strapped to her chest, in "Eclipsed," Danai Gurira's play about sexual captives during the Liberian civil war.
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Pill overdoes it with the wide-eyed innocence, and, in any case, how can we believe that her character is innocent in a play about cynicism and its ultimate release?
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When I first went to Covenant House, I wanted to make a donation for the opening night of "Lady Day [at Emerson's Bar and Grill," a play about Billie Holiday].
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Set in the wild and woolly Chicago of the 1920s, when men were men and newspaper men were animals, "The Front Page" is just about everybody's favorite play about journalism.
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And Tobias, who is currently writing a stage play about her experiences working with the dying actor, regrets that Brando's last performance has yet to be seen by film fans.
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To give you an idea of what that sensibility is, here are some facts: La Dispute are named after an 18th century French play about two orphans raised in isolation.
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Now we get all the way down to another guy, who wrote a play about how dysfunctional government was in 1933 (in ways that are even truer in modern times).
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A year ago, the actress and playwright Jocelyn Bioh decided to write a play about African characters — a searing play, a brutal play, a play that theaters would finally produce.
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Kate Benson's play about a group of regulars at a Bushwick saloon, produced by WP Theater, in partnership with the Bushwick Starr and association with New Georges, announces last call.
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Their immense skill and focus was unmistakable — precisely what worried Mr. Bean when Richard Wilson, an associate director at the Crucible, initially asked him to write a play about snooker.
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Before there were seagulls, sisters, orchards or late-night vodka confessionals, there was Anton Chekhov's 2866 play about a superfluous man torn between his tubercular wife and his landowner's daughter.
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He has received acclaim in Britain for his original productions, including a revival at the National Theater of "Amadeus," Peter Shaffer's play about Mozart's rivalry with the composer Antonio Salieri.
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Nick Robideau's play about Erica, a young woman who discovers her "objectum sexuality," or objectophilia, and a wholehearted attachment to the sign at the local Dairy Queen, finishes its run.
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Xirgu learned of Lorca's death before a staging of "Yerma" ("Barren"), his play about a woman who is so desperate to have children that she kills her husband in anger.
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A messy play about clean and sober women, Catya McMullen's "Georgia Mertching Is Dead," at Ensemble Studio Theater, sends former addicts on a road trip to bury a fallen friend.
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Ostensibly a play about complicated women, its characters can veer toward caricature, particularly when Khoshnoudi accentuates Whitney's daffy winsomeness and Oh, also a playwright, stresses Gretchen's over-the-top tendencies.
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"Red," John Logan John Logan's stunning play about Mark Rothko testing and teaching his young assistant resulted in one of the best evenings I have ever had in the theater.
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Physical affection is a lost art in the broken family of Anna Jordan's "Yen," a violent play about tender feelings, which opened on Tuesday night at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
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If it seems an odd subject for a show aimed at ages 9 and up, Dawkins is familiar with such skepticism; he put a line in the play about it.
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A character named Adreena Schneeweiss (she will resemble, to some readers, Barbra Streisand) is pilloried for sitting on the film rights to Lemish's play about the disease for many years.
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A quarrel with the R.S.C. over its 1982 staging of his "Poppy," a musical play about the opium wars in China, alienated Mr. Nichols from the theater for a time.
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FEFU AND HER FRIENDS Lileana Blain-Cruz directs a revival of María Irene Fornés's 1977 feminist play about a group of women navigating a male-dominated world. Nov. 23-Dec.
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The three-act play, about a nurse who marries a wealthy man, went unmentioned in Wharton's 1934 memoir, "A Backward Glance," as well as in the major biographies of her.
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Denzel Washington's stirring adaptation of August Wilson's 1985 play about a working-class black family in Pittsburgh during the 1950s probably has the most to say about the American character.
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"I thought it was a grim, dark play about two lonely men," he told the Paris Review in 1994, in an interview conducted by "Inside the Actors Studio's" James Lipton.
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Coach Terry Stotts told reporters Anthony would start at power forward and play about 224.0 minutes, and the 26.5-time All-Star did start and wound up playing 23.0:21.02.
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Nick Robideau's play about Erica — a young woman who discovers her "objectum sexuality," or objectophilia, and a wholehearted attachment to the sign at the local Dairy Queen — finishes its run.
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Still, Em definitely once recorded a "song" that was essentially a one-act play about kidnapping and murdering the mother of his daughter so maybe there's something there after all.
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The other was an intense three-act play about marriage, ambition, and the collision between the two — especially when a meddling father-in-law with near three-dimensional eyebrows gets involved.
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"I grew up around a developing country grappling with the onslaught of HIV-AIDS," says Gurira, who wrote and starred in a play about two women grappling with HIV called Continuum.
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"I am not bound to please thee with my answers," says the judge in the famous courtroom scene in The Merchant of Venice, William Shakespeare's play about a Venetian Jewish moneylender.
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Catholic officials discourage the crucifixions The tradition has its origins in a play about Jesus written by a local playwright in the 1950s, which led to the first crucifixion in 1962.
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Ms. Lande is encountering her own surprises, some when audience members speak to her after the play about their experiences with cancer or death, some when audiences find the play's humor.
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A subsequent work, "The Play About the Baby," opened in London in 1998 and in Houston in 2000 before finding its way the next year to Off Broadway in New York.
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But seriously, it does seem like a perfect match: Stephen Karam ("The Humans") adapts Chekhov's play about the relentless march of progress despite our human tendency to stand in the way.
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" Ms. Streisand has written a book about the creation of this private Xanadu, "My Passion for Design," which became the unlikely basis for a play about her, Jonathan Tolins's "Buyer & Cellar.
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"A Doll's House, Part 2" is a play about a play, and about men looking at women—though not condescendingly, or with anything approaching lust and, thus, the idea of possession.
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She started off by writing and performing poems about Jesus, before abandoning religion at drama school and penning Chewing Gum Dreams, a one-woman play about growing up in public housing.
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Mr. Bock, who has had a long and fruitful relationship with Playwrights Horizons, presents a new play about a lovelorn man (David Hyde Pierce) who turns to astrology for romantic guidance.
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The responsibility of remembering weighs heavily on Nkechi, the narrator of "Good Grief," Ngozi Anyanwu's tender play about loss at an early age, which opened on Tuesday at the Vineyard Theater.
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He once tried to stage a play about a Kosovan immigrant to Switzerland who murdered his daughter's teacher, which led to his mother being harassed so much she had to move.
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Kate Benson's play about a group of regulars at a Bushwick saloon, produced by WP Theater, in partnership with the Bushwick Starr and in association with New Georges, announces last call.
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With a cast including John Glover, Daniel Sunjata, Walter Bobbie and Adam Chanler-Berat, it's a play about nationalism, religious zealotry and what happens to women who stray from their place.
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It is timeless, a play about being and the will, and the relation of both to the duties of tradition versus desire — the desire to live — without regard to the consequences.
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"You couldn't write a play about her that would run a week, or a novel that would sell a thousand copies," an old beau remarks after visiting her in middle age.
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Ms. Gremina wrote, and Mr. Ugarov directed, "One Hour Eighteen Minutes," a 2010 play about the Russian tax lawyer Sergei Magnitsky, who died in a Moscow pretrial detention center in 2009.
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The world-premiere play about a suburban woman's efforts to take care of her family while starring in a community-theater production of "South Pacific" will begin performances in April 2019.
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On its surface, "Oh My Sweet Land," produced in London in 2014, is a forceful and absorbing play about a Syrian-American woman who goes searching for her married lover, Ashraf.
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DOWNSTAIRS Sibling actors Tyne and Tim Daly star in Theresa Rebeck's play about a struggling middle-aged guy who moves into his sister's basement, much to the displeasure of her husband.
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And, in a related category, Sarah DeLappe, a Brooklyn College M.F.A. student, was a finalist this year in the drama category for a play about a girls' high school soccer team.
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Penitents whipping themselves and the series of crucifixions feature in the annual Philippine re-enactment of the passion of Jesus Christ, which started as a stage play about 60 years ago.
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I have a special interest in the subject — my grandfather fought in World War I, and I've done years of research on the events while writing a play about the war.
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The bride, 34, is a theater, television and film actress who starred in the premiere of "Orange," a play about a young South Asian woman who is on the autism spectrum.
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While it returns to themes and situations she has movingly explored in other works, this sometimes absurdist play about a family in crisis splashes and thrashes under Ari Laura Kreith's direction.
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"On the Royal Road: The Burgher King," a new play about President Trump written by the Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek, will have its first presentation next week in the United States.
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After Germany's surrender, he was assigned to perform in and stage manage "Brother Rat," a Broadway play about cadets at the Virginia Military Institute, at Army bases in Germany and France.
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She started off by writing and performing poems about Jesus, before abandoning religion at drama school and penning Chewing Gum Dreams, a one-woman play about growing up in public housing.
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At the center of Calhoun Day is a play about Millie Calhoun, a woman who was raped by Union soldiers but still refused to give up her husband's whereabouts and betray him.
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"Hello, Ranger Jack," one audience member chirped at the beginning of "The Tower," the play about the Donner Party, when we were greeted by an actor playing a park ranger/tour guide.
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"She ended up getting more votes that Mr. Trump and it goes without saying that she has a very important role to play about the future of the Democratic party," he said.
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The emblem of the 2016 Biennale de Montréal is a Lucas Cranach the Elder portrait of an alleged witch and its title comes from a Jean Genet play about an upscale brothel.
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Five years ago, in a New Orleans bookshop, he found a treatise on Seneca, and reading it reminded him of his failed attempt thirty years earlier to write a play about Socrates.
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The classic play, about a family torn apart over a son gone missing and a military-parts scandal, was first staged on Broadway in 1947 and was revived in 1987 and 2008.
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The theater recently had a well-received run of "Sammy: A Tribute to Sammy Davis Jr." A play about the life of the singer Patti LaBelle will run in May and June.
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Pretty much everything in the 1980 drama "Translations," a play about place-naming that is one of the two certifiable masterpieces ("Faith Healer" is the other) from Brian Friel, the Irish dramatist.
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Michael Urie was barely a year old when "Torch Song Trilogy," a play about the complicated love and family lives of a drag queen named Arnold Beckoff, opened on Broadway in 1982.
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The shift seemed to come somewhere around 43's "Chi-Raq," a surreal spin on Aristophanes' play about the Peloponnesian War, updated to take on the fraught subject of homicide in Chicago.
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Even the amoebalike ensemble, which sometimes seems to swell to include the entire audience of 1,800 citizens, does unusually fine work: a crucial element in a play about the manipulation of crowds.
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Although it is primarily a play about two men forging a romantic relationship, a traumatic turning point comes when one is the victim of gay-bashing while walking through his Brooklyn neighborhood.
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Conflict of a more cosmic kind animates "Saint Joan," Shaw's 1923 play about (among other things) a visionary female who finds herself sidelined and even strong-armed by men at every turn.
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THE INHERITANCE Matthew Lopez's play, about three generations of gay men in New York, is an epic two-parter that London critics compared to "Angels in America" when it premiered last year.
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Never far from O'Neill, she also wrote a one-woman play about Carlotta Monterey, "My Gene," which starred Colleen Dewhurst in a production at the Public Theater in New York in 1987.
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The BERLIN theatre company in Antwerp, Belgium, which is putting on the play about forgery, said in a carefully worded tweet that it had "brought back" Tête d'Arlequin in a new frame.
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Today, we're featuring an interview with Sean Higgins, the designer responsible for creating a poster for "Barbecue," Robert O'Hara's crafty play about the relationship between two couples, one black and one white.
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Eventually Ms. Phillips, who has written the book and lyrics for the children's musicals "The Dream Dealer" and "Buzz: The Story of Glorybee," tried to write a play about the two men.
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Mr. Sohne wrote the book and lyrics for "The Boy Who Danced on Air," a play about pedophilia in Afghanistan that had its Off Broadway premiere at the Abingdon Theater in Manhattan.
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"Squeamish" is a play about blood — the fluid that flows through our veins, the kinship we feel or don't for our own families, the temperaments that we struggle to keep in balance.
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Now that the AIDS crisis has receded and gay civil rights have become standard in rich Western countries, a seven-hour play about gay life in Ronald Reagan's America might risk looking anachronistic.
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Kilmer was spotted in February looking good, and he challenged any skeptics out there who think he's lying about his health now ... come see him in person in his play about Mark Twain.
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The panel, called "Today You're You, and That's Enough" was in partnership with Dear Evan Hansen, the Broadway play about teen bullying, and moderated by Dr. Jennifer Ashton, ABC News' chief medical correspondent.
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His friend the journalist Katharine Viner remembers how they butted heads at first while collaborating on a play about American activist Rachel Corrie: We had, shall we say, a lot of vigorous debate.
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"Narratively, it actually came out of an interest in gun violence in Chicago, and exploring those themes without doing a play about gun violence," said Mr. Allen, who wrote and directed the show.
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Encouraged, they began rehearsing and appearing as the No Name Quartet until Mr. Hellerman suggested the Weavers, a name taken from the title of Gerhart Hauptmann's play about a 19th-century workers' revolt.
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On the route, within walking distance of the center, is García Lorca's summer home, where he wrote "Blood Wedding" — a classic 1932 play about love, murder and greed — at a bare wooden desk.
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"Lear" is a play about family, about the flesh and the mind melding together in decay, about understanding what it means to love and to foolishly refuse to admit one's need for love.
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NEW YORK (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Several Catholic schools in Ontario in Canada have canceled performances of a children's play about a boy who cross-dresses, drawing accusations of transphobia in the liberal province.
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Of equal importance, this being a play about the Irish, are the living dead, the absent souls who exist not only as scrupulously maintained memories but as catalysts in an increasingly eventful plot.
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SIMPATICO The exciting Chicago theater company A Red Orchid teams up with the McCarter Theater Center for a revival of Sam Shepard's 29 play about the seedy, complex world of professional horse racing.
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Broadway becomes a place that's not in silence and not in sound when the director Kenny Leon revives Mark Medoff's 1979 play about the relationship between a deaf custodian and a hearing teacher.
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A barbed joke, easy but amusing, animates the opening scene of "Relevance," JC Lee's undercooked new play about two generations of feminism in conflict, which opened Sunday night at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
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Because when the fourth wall breaks, this nightmare-vision play about Japanese-American identity cracks wide open, and what's underneath is so heart-stingingly tender and explicitly personal that the whole work shifts.
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Based on a true-ish story, this three-character play about an unshakeable fact-checker (Daniel Radcliffe), an unyielding writer (Bobby Cannavale) and an editor on deadline (Cherry Jones) reaches its last lines.
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Based on a true-ish story, this three-character play about an unshakable fact checker (Daniel Radcliffe), an unyielding writer (Bobby Cannavale) and an editor on deadline (Cherry Jones) reaches its last lines.
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Critic's Pick A mighty sigh — equal parts frustration and resignation — seems to animate "Hillary and Clinton," Lucas Hnath's piquant, slender new play about … well, it's about exactly what, and whom, its title suggests.
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She met the tennis couple when she was researching "Our Very Own Carlin McCullough," a play about a tennis prodigy that had its premiere at the Geffen Playhouse in Los Angeles this summer.
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This is partly a play about the brutal intimacy of growing up together, and if you've ever been a girl, the friendships here — in their details and dynamics — may give you stinging flashbacks.
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Viola Davis took home the prize for best supporting actress for her performance in "Fences", an adaption of a Pulitzer Prize winning play about the life of a black family in 1950s Pennsylvania.
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The one-woman play about sex and the single bed hopper that begat the streaming series of the same title, while jump-starting the ever-ascending career of its creator, Phoebe Waller-Bridge.
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This new play, about a fiend terrorizing village teenagers, includes a cast of downtown favorites like Jess Barbagallo and Pete Simpson, and creepy, immersive sound design by Ben Williams of Elevator Repair Service.
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"Wild Goose Dreams," a play about a South Korean man whose wife and daughter move to America, will be presented at the Public after a run at the La Jolla Playhouse last year.
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The play, about a first-generation immigrant whose liberal, seemingly tolerant worldview is tested when his daughter falls in love with the son of a conservative Muslim family, does not yet have a director.
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Such is the enigma who presides over "Our Mother's Brief Affair," Richard Greenberg's untethered play about unmoored lives, which opened on Wednesday night at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater, starring a marvelous Linda Lavin.
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Last year, Mark Ruffalo won the category for his performance in The Normal Heart, Ryan Murphy's TV adaptation of Larry Kramer's 1985 play about the beginning of the HIV-AIDS crisis in New York.
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One week after the producers' call to ban Pakistani actors, a local party in Uttar Pradesh, northern India, prevented an Indian Muslim Bollywood star from participating in a play about the Hindu Ramayana epic.
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It was suggested by Fred Hellerman, a member of the group, who took it from the title of a play about a worker revolt; it was not suggested by one of Mr. Brand's listeners.
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"Marvin's Room," a comic play about a dying woman caring for a dying man, will be staged on Broadway for the first time next summer, more than a quarter-century after it was written.
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LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Young Muslims face rising racism and Islamophobia that leaves them more vulnerable to radicalization, according to the writer of a new play about a teenage girl recruited by Islamic State.
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He wrote a school play — "about a guy with a broken heart," he said — called "Almost Romance," a comedy in which he cast himself in the lead and Ms. Balbirer as his love interest.
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In another note, an informant complains that after having rehearsed for Molière's Tartuffe for nine months, Toca has started working on Mikhail Bulgakov's The Cabal of Hypocrites—a play about Molière having written Tartuffe.
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A second Tony nomination came in 1980, for his direction of "Children of a Lesser God," Mark Medoff's play about a teacher of the deaf who falls in love with one of his students.
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There will also be "10000 Gestures," a dance work in a found space by Boris Charmatz; and "Fatherland," a play about fatherhood by Simon Stephens and Scott Graham, with a score by Karl Hyde.
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"The Fre," a play about today's political divisions loosely based on "The Frogs" by Aristophanes, will have its world premiere at the Flea Theater in the spring, the Off Off Broadway nonprofit announced Tuesday.
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I managed to play about 22 different games over the course of the four days of the event, but even so, it felt like I only scratched the surface on what was on display.
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I managed to play about 22 different games over the course of the four days of the event, but even so, it felt like I only scratched the surface on what was on display.
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Outside were dozens of protesters — a mix of hard-line Roman Catholics and right-wing activists — hoping to stop a production of "The Curse," a provocative play about child sexual abuse in the church.
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In 1996, as mayor, he pressured the Charlotte Repertory Theatre to tone down the nudity and gay themes in its production of "Angels in America," the Pulitzer Prize-winning play about the AIDS crisis.
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Daniel Radcliffe is returning to Broadway, and to exploring the particular challenges of the Information Age, in a new play about an epic and thought-provoking battle between a writer and a fact-checker.
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Starting previews on Tuesday, May 8, in a world-premiere production at the Pershing Square Signature Center, it's a play about mothers and their children, and the painful, jagged course that families can take.
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She decided to defund a theater that put on a play about a Palestinian who killed an Israeli soldier — and the attorney general reversed her decision on the grounds that it limited free expression.
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Tony Kushner — the playwright whose magnum opus, "Angels in America," painted a kaleidoscopic portrait of the United States' AIDS crisis while it was still unfolding — is working on a new play about President Trump.
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" When Edwin Booth, the greatest American actor of the 19th century, staged it in New York in 1871, he too saw it as a play about "a noble past which shamed a decadent present.
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Last year, Mr. Ozel and his friends tried to put on a play about St. Nicholas's life at a local amphitheater but could not find any financial support, not from the municipality or elsewhere.
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Indeed, her first large-scale success was playing that open mystery Gilda, in the 1994 Donmar Warehouse production of Noël Coward's 1932 "Design for Living," a play about bisexuality, art, and fast modern lives.
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"Torch Song Trilogy" — Harvey Fierstein's Tony-winning play about love, family and drag performance in 1970s New York — will return this fall in a revival renamed "Torch Song," Off Broadway at Second Stage Theater.
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"What Happened Was ...," a dark comedy based on Mr. Noonan's play about two lonely New Yorkers, won the Grand Jury Prize and the Waldo Salt Screenwriting Award at the Sundance Film Festival in 1994.
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Teachers' expectations for their students can shape eventual outcomes, a phenomenon called the "Pygmalion effect" — named, fittingly, after a George Bernard Shaw play about a male professor teaching a woman to be more ladylike.
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In "The Flick," a play about two popcorn sweepers and a projectionist at a small-town movie theater, Gold limited the actors by asking them to repeat the same movements over and over again.
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"The Ferryman," a British play about a sprawling family in rural Northern Ireland that starts to unravel in a crush of heartbreaking secrets, painful resentments and revelations of past crimes, is coming to Broadway.
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The Wilder we meet is the shade of a man who was too frightened to talk of such things, who wrote a famous play about a town where none of the characters loved like him.
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In short, Hamlet should be our This Be Madness winner because with iconic characters, an incredible plot about betrayal and madness, and truly incredible prose, Shakespeare has written a moving play about all of us.
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Taylor, 73, stars in the classic 1928 play — about a group of motley reporters in Chicago chasing the scoop of a lifetime — alongside a cast of 25 including Nathan Lane, John Slattery and John Goodman.
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A play about bad things happening to bad people, it laughs at characters who are almost certainly poorer, worse educated and less sophisticated than the audience it attracts, which feels callous and maybe classist, too.
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The production not only marks Ferris' professional debut, but a unique spin on Tennessee Williams' iconic 1945 memory play — about a man looking back on the family he abandoned in post-Depression era St. Louis.
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Similar in style and NSFW content to Blasted, Cleansed is a political but abstract and experimental play about a man called Tinker who keeps people in a prison-like world for both body and mind.
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Her comments, which were made after seeing a play about late Justice Antonin Scalia, may calm those concerned about the number of justices President Trump could potentially nominate for a seat in his first term.
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The actors have been serious #FriendshipGoals since they were children — in fact, their friendship is so strong that the delightful Mindy Kaling and her friend Brenda Withers were inspired to write a play about them.
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So eager to find out more, I sat down with Sabrina to talk about her play, how Garage influenced her life and whether any soliloquies get a wheel up... THUMP: So, what's the play about?
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Motherhood is a brutal business for the title character of William Francis Hoffman's "Cal in Camo," an earnest and tenderhearted play about the search for family that opened Friday night at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
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"Harry Potter and the Cursed Child," a new play about the grown wizard and his troubled relationship with his teen-aged son, won 10 nominations, including best play and best actor for star Jamie Parker.
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THE PARISIAN WOMAN Uma Thurman, in her Broadway debut, stars in Beau Willimon's ("House of Cards") play about a Washington socialite trying to get her lover to help her husband land a big government job.
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He had long wanted to write "a very big play about finance," but his choice of subject can be taken as a statement: He is not going to be solely defined as an ethnic playwright.
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Donald Trump grows more thuggish and mendacious by the day; "gaslighting," a term taken from a play about an abusive husband trying to drive his wife insane, has become a byword of our national life.
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The multipart play, about the ill-fated firm that played a large part in the 2008 financial crisis, is written by Stefano Massini and adapted by Ben Power, and will be directed by Sam Mendes.
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With "Everybody," Jacobs-Jenkins has written a play about love—or, rather, a play that shows how impossible it is to write about love—and it fills the heart in a new and unexpected way.
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"Because of course we know each other," Hnath said, his evident discomfort — with giving an interview in the first place, with discussing a play about his mother's trauma — evaporating for an instant as he laughed.
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Its particular blend of the classical with the contemporary renders the play — about a young woman who risks her life to defy the cruel dictate of a reckless, power-mad king — both timeless and urgent.
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INTIMATE APPAREL Lincoln Center Theater presents a new opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, based on Lynn Nottage's 2004 play about an African-American seamstress in 1905 New York and her quest for romance.
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Some of its plays have been seen as critical of populism, including a recent staging of "On the Royal Road: The Burgher King," a play about President Trump written by the Nobel laureate Elfriede Jelinek.
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"The Belle of Amherst," Mr. Luce's play about the reclusive Dickinson, reflected his love of her elliptical poetry, which he first read in high school, and his fascination with the letters she wrote to friends.
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"M. Butterfly," the gender-bending play about a French diplomat who has a lengthy affair with a Chinese opera singer, will be revived on Broadway this fall with Clive Owen starring and Julie Taymor directing.
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She gave her final performance this past fall at In the Heart of the Beast Puppet and Mask Theater in St. Paul, narrating "Queen," a play about gun violence and the Black Lives Matter movement.
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Martín Zimmerman's "On the Exhale" — another current solo play about gun violence, also with a female narrator, at Roundabout Underground — is a somewhat fantastical tale, its action driven by the grief of an immediate survivor.
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Lucy Prebble — the British playwright and writer for TV series including "Succession" — won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize on Monday for "A Very Expensive Poison," an acclaimed play about a Russian assassination on British soil.
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Even in his own era, his audiences recognized that a play about a Roman general or a Danish king wasn't an education in the past, something that had relevance to them only because it happened.
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Clubbed Thumb, the downtown company that first produced "What the Constitution Means to Me," brings back Will Arbery's play about three sisters (Crystal Finn, Susannah Flood, Miriam Silverman) and many husbands for an encore run.
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Angels in America — Tony Kushner's bizarrely beautiful, Pulitzer-winning gay fantasia, now nominated for 11 Tonys — is a play about the triumph of life over death, queer joy over bigoted hate, progress over reactionary politics.
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He is also the closest thing to a functional adult in "A Room of My Own," Charles Messina's brash, overstuffed cartoon of a memory play about an Italian-American family at Christmastime in 1979 Greenwich Village.
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The Gear VR controller runs on Bluetooth and Samsung claims you will get nearly 30 to 40 days of use out of the two AA batteries inside, provided you only play about two hours a day.
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NOTES: Arizona CF A.J. Pollock (elbow) will be activated from the disabled list Friday and is expected to play about two of every three games in the early stages of his return, manager Chip Hale said.
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But in reviewing a play about his life, I complained, I aired personal grievances, I talked an unhealthy amount of shit, and I rambled and meandered so much that I hardly touched on the fuckin' thing.
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This was the summer of Suicide Squad, and that play about grown-up Harry Potter, and a seemingly endless string of horrific world events, and record high temperatures, and La Croix-themed birthday cakes, and Trump.
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Paramount, which pushed Ava DuVernay's "Selma," released in 2014, for the Oscars, has high hopes for "Fences," an adaptation of August Wilson's Pulitzer Prize- and Tony Award-winning play about the black experience in the 1950s.
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"He actually wrote a play about the unmarriageable, or the undesirable," said Ms. Taymor, who played Kate at Oberlin College in the early 1970s and directed the play in 1988 at Theater for a New Audience.
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No, it wasn't "Hamilton," but "Ça ira (1) Fin de Louis," a play about the early years of the French Revolution, which won Molière awards for best director, best playwright and best play on Monday night.
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PETER PAN Don't expect a splashy musical: J. M. Barrie's 1904 play about a boy who won't grow up gets the Bedlam treatment as a cast of six morphs into pirates, fairies, children and other characters.
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Mary-Louise Parker will return to Broadway this fall to star in "The Sound Inside," a two-character play about a professor with a difficult diagnosis and a creative writing student with a lot to say.
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All throughout, there's running commentary from an unidentified person who's watching the incident from offscreen, giving a play-by-play about how the dog wants to get away and will just have to be thrown in.
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You don't expect a work that has been in development for 10 years to be electrifyingly topical, but Heidi Schreck's debate of a play about our foundational legal document could hardly have proved more hot-button.
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The play, about a drag performer looking for love and family, is a classic of gay theater, and in 1988 was adapted into a film featuring Matthew Broderick and Anne Bancroft, as well as Mr. Fierstein.
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"Ink," another play about the news media that originated in London, fared better, however: This drama by James Graham about an early chapter in Rupert Murdoch's career received six nominations, including best play and best director.
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This fall, the very house that Papp built, the Public Theater in downtown Manhattan, will host a play about this homegrown colossus, who was born in Brooklyn in 1921 as Joseph Papirofsky and died in 103.
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For nearly a century, the work, subtitled "The Play About the Death of the Rich Man," has been preaching (in rhyming couplets) against avarice and exhorting the festival's well-heeled audiences to do a charitable deed.
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In the past year, she has also published an acclaimed book of poetry; collaborated on a play about the poet Gwendolyn Brooks; and co-hosted the Chicago Poetry Block Party, a community festival she helped create.
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Hopper becomes Caravaggio, and "Heroes," a formally lovely, subtly horrifying play about the death rattle of ideologies and the thin line between devotion and delusion, echoes the interplay between those two painters of profound psychological depth.
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Politics are central to "Limehouse," Steve Waters's punchy new play about the origins of the Social Democratic Party, started in Britain in 1981 by four Labour Party defectors who became known as the Gang of Four.
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Critic's Pick "The Shadow of a Gunman," Sean O'Casey's tragicomic 1923 play about gun violence, patriotism and empty rhetoric, has returned to the Irish Repertory Theater, the first production in a season devoted to his work.
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In short, Hamlet was destined to be our This Be Madness winner because with iconic characters, an incredible plot about betrayal and madness, and truly great prose, Shakespeare has written a moving play about all of us.
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"Oslo," J.T. Rogers' play about the behind-the-scenes negotiations in Norway that led to the historic 1993 peace accord between Israel and the PLO, won best play, while August Wilson's "Jitney" was named best play revival.
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Claire Danes, taking a break from battling America's enemies and her own demons in "Homeland," will return to the New York stage this March in "Dry Powder," a new play about the excesses of the American economy.
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Relation to Harry: Father Synopsis: This is not a biographical film, but instead a speculative movie based on a play about what might happen when Harry's father Prince Charles ascends the throne after Queen Elizabeth II's death.
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Reality check Here's where a bit of a reality check -- or several -- comes into play about the future of this conversation debate, per several senior GOP sources: The policy here isn't as clear cut as it appears.
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But with "Wrecks" (2006), his play about a contemporary American businessman (an excellent Ed Harris) visited by a fate from Greek tragedy, came the faint whiff of a magician on autopilot practicing a set list of tricks.
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In "The Deep Blue Sea," Rattigan's 1952 play about an eminent barrister's wife who has left her husband for a young pilot, Ms. McCrory goes out on nearly as far-reaching a limb as Ms. Piper does.
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The Gay Fellowship at Blessed Sacrament Church presents a staged reading of Terrence McNally's Tony Award-winning play, about eight gay friends vacationing in upstate New York, to benefit the anti-bullying organization the Tyler Clementi Foundation.
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Lauren Yee's "In a Word," produced by Lesser America at the Cherry Lane Theater, is a sad and breathless and often pretty funny play about the ways in which loss mangles our world and garbles our speech.
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A few years ago, I told a journalist who was writing about the now thirty-two-year-old playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins that I thought he should write a play about love—that which cannot be explained.
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The CEO of The Inner Fitness Project and the creative mind behind The Circle, a play "about seven diverse women navigating the choppy waters of life together," Lifford has been thinking about writing a book for years.
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SOFT POWER David Henry Hwang's latest, a complex musical within a play, about American-Chinese relations, especially since the 21997 election, comes to New York following a premiere at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Angeles last year.
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In addition to that play, about a man addled by daughter, ex-wife and mistress, the festival carousel includes an updated Iphigenia, a first date, a cocktail party and a possible sighting of the Loch Ness monster.
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As if his presence wasn't enough, he brought out Future with him to really make an impact, as they both played crowd favorites from "All I Do Is Win," to "I Don't Play About My Paper" and "Jumpman."
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Not so much because he is an Oscar front-runner for his role in "Fences," but because bringing the award-winning stage play about blue collar African-Americans to the big screen has been a long-held dream.
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Alonso, who is also a double Monaco Grand Prix winner, has made a big play about becoming only the second driver to take the 'Triple Crown of Motorsport' and Le Mans is the second box to be ticked.
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"It's a humorous play about a country that's just elected a madman — I mean, there's really no other way to put it," Moore, an outspoken critic of Trump, told The New York Times about the show in May.
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ISHERWOOD Well, it was certainly hard not to watch "The Humans," Stephen Karam's play about a middle-class family under intense pressures, and not think of all the talk of income inequality and the increasingly beleaguered middle classes.
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A director (Mathieu Amalric) thinks he has found the perfect woman (Emmanuelle Seigner) to star in a play about masochistic relationships, in this film adaptation of David Ives's drama directed by Roman Polanski, Ms. Seigner's real-life husband.
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TRAVESTIES The playwright Patrick Marber ("After Miss Julie") directs a revival of Tom Stoppard's 212 play about Zurich in 21, when James Joyce, Tristan Tzara and Vladimir Lenin were all living in the city at the same time.
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DOWNTOWN RACE RIOT Seth Zvi Rosenfeld uses the 1976 violent outbreak in Washington Square as raw material for his new play about a single mother (Chloë Sevigny) and her son, who grapples with whether to join the melee.
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During readings of his "Rabbit Hole," a play about coping with loss in a family, David Lindsay-Abaire found "emotionally indulgent" actors crying throughout, but he felt no tears should flow till the second act, if at all.
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A rebel with the vivid name Dick the Butcher speaks one of the most famous lines in Shakespeare's "Henry VI," a mammoth three-part history play about the struggle for power in a kingdom at odds with itself.
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Yet "The Fall" is not so much a protest play, intended to rouse the socially dormant into action, as it is a play about a protest, And that distinction is what it gives this docudrama its arresting complexity.
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Kate Benson's play about a group of regulars at a Bushwick saloon bellies back up to the bar, when WP Theater, in partnership with the Bushwick Starr in association with New Georges, brings it back for another round.
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LONDON — "The Inheritance," a two-part, six-and-a-half-hour play about the legacy of AIDS in New York, dominated the Olivier Awards on Sunday night, winning four trophies at the British equivalent of the Tony Awards.
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"Northport was like a protective place for him, and so was Gunther's," said Patrick Fenton, who wrote a play about author's last night in Northport, called "Jack's Last Call: Say Goodbye to Kerouac," which was staged inside Gunther's.
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The starting point for Simone Rocha's fall 2020 collection was "Riders to the Sea," the Irish playwright John Millington Synge's 1904 one-act play about a woman dealing with death in her family, set in the Aran Islands.
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S. N. Behrman, the American playwright and diarist, began but never finished a heroic play about Montaigne called "The Many Men," which might have sealed him as the man for all seasons before the other guy got there.
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Will Arbery's ensemble play about a college reunion of sorts presented a perspective seldom seen on New York stages: That of pro-Trump, Catholic conservatives groping in the dark for answers, just like their left-leaning Manhattan equivalents.
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Elena Skopetos and Elana Fishbein play more than a dozen characters each in this joke-dense play about three adult sisters reluctantly convening for a family reunion, only to discover a new side to their family's complicated history.
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He was centering himself and his reactions to this play about blackness and black experience, and then inserting himself into everyone else's experience, as though he was clearly of paramount importance to the rest of the theater too.
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In "The Jungle," a play about a refugee camp in Calais, France, a Kurdish smuggler named Ali explains that his profession is not responsible for the large numbers of migrants making the dangerous journeys to Europe by sea.
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This 1668 play about a penny-pinching father, Harpagon, and his scheming children is a revered classic in France, and the translator Justin Fleming here attempts to find an English substitute for the formidable rhythm of Molière's dialogue.
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This contemporary play about the conflicts involving two sisters, Anna (Laura Ekstrand) and Lilly (Jessica O'Hara-Baker), was originally presented by Harbor Stage Company in Massachusetts in 2014 and then by the Magic Theater in San Francisco in 2015.
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Washburn previously penned 2012's Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play—a play about a bunch of apocalypse survivors retelling episodes of The Simpsons, which felt like something Brecht would have done if all he watched were FOX reruns.
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"Kids get a lot of ideas early from play about what they can do, what they like and what they can aspire to," says psychology professor Deborah Tolman of the Hunter College School of Social Work in New York.
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The double Formula One world champion and Monaco Grand Prix winner, has made a big play about becoming only the second driver to take the 'Triple Crown of Motorsport' and Le Mans is the second piece of the puzzle.
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The company presented the premiere of "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" in 1970 and followed it with Mr. Fo's "Fedayin" (1971), a play about the Palestinian-Israeli conflict that included members of the Palestine Liberation Organization in the cast.
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LOBBY HERO For the first production at Second Stage Theater's new Broadway home, Michael Cera and Chris Evans will star in a revival of Kenneth Lonergan's play about a group of New Yorkers caught up in a murder investigation.
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Critics, lukewarm about the play but effusive about the venue, have been quick to point out the irony of opening London's first wholly new, large-scale commercial theater in 80 years with a play about an critic of capitalism.
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The original fearless girl, Joan of Arc returns to the stage in George Bernard Shaw's play about the medieval French military hero and Roman Catholic saint who may or may not have been guided by the voice of God.
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"The Ferryman," Jez Butterworth's terrific play about one family's experience of the trauma of I.R.A. violence, is a hit on Broadway, and "Milkman," Anna Burns's trancelike evocation of tension and predation during the Troubles, won the 2018 Booker Prize.
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Her sentences are delivered as smoothly as if they were lines she memorized years ago for her starring role in a play about herself, a role she is perpetually reprising for one night only as a treat for fans.
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Kate Benson's play about a group of regulars at a Bushwick saloon bellies back up to the bar, when WP Theater, in partnership with the Bushwick Starr and in association with New Georges, brings it back for another round.
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And in Houston, the Alley Theater said it had removed Mr. Edelstein as director of a coming production of "Satchmo at the Waldorf," a one-man play about Louis Armstrong by the Wall Street Journal drama critic Terry Teachout.
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I generally resist both convulsions and immersions but have to admit that, despite its unusually interactive nature, I'm drawn to "Gloria: A Life," the new stage event — it's not just a play — about the activist and feminist Gloria Steinem.
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This spring, Ridloff, who was also born deaf, will use them to sign onstage opposite Joshua Jackson in "Children of a Lesser God," Mark Medoff's 1979 play about a tumultuous romance between a deaf woman and a hearing man.
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Performed in Spanish (with seat-back English subtitles) on a sleek contemporary set (by Raúl Abrego), "Exquisite Agony" wants to be a play about the human heart: its fumblings and yearnings, its bruises and scars, its generosity and viciousness.
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"Six Degrees of Separation" — John Guare's play about a wealthy Manhattan couple whose lives are upended by a con artist claiming to be Sidney Poitier's son — was the toast of the town when it had its premiere in 290.
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In Paula Vogel's play about the Yiddish theater, the curled payot are clipped on each side of a wide-brimmed, felted fur hat, purchased from a Jewish hat maker in Brooklyn, according to Emily Rebholz, the show's costume designer.
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The third player, Jacq, also an attorney, told me that she'd written a stage play about a Thanksgiving dinner she'd attended at Diana's, in the course of which Diana's ailing husband had died in bed in the family room.
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Comedy Elena Skopetos and Elana Fishbein play more than a dozen characters each in this joke-dense play about three adult sisters reluctantly convening for a family reunion, only to discover a new side to their family's complicated history.
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Buck wrote a play about the Nazi-era murders of the mentally ill and the disabled, published essays opposing medical research on patients who lack the cognitive ability to grant consent, and gave lectures to promote more humane psychiatry.
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In what I think is the best of the game's interludes, The Entertainment, you both watch and participate in the staging of an experimental play about a struggling bar and the struggling people who work and drink in it.
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That was the Young Vic production of "Yerma," seen in New York at the Park Avenue Armory in 2018, based on Federico García Lorca's poetic play about a Spanish peasant woman undone by her inability to conceive a child.
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You'd think a play about the theological and political debates of four friends at a college reunion would not get much traction in New York, especially if those friends are enthusiastic Catholic conservatives who voted for Donald J. Trump.
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So ran my feelings during the first half-hour of "Shipwreck, a History Play About 2017," Anne Washburn's truly thrilling, truly original fantasia of a drama, which had its world premiere on Tuesday night at the Almeida Theater here.
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The producer Robert Evans's book "The Kid Stays in the Picture" (and the film based on it) and a biography and a play about the Hollywood agent Sue Mengers brought attention to their Woolf-designed lairs in Beverly Hills.
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Her bakery hosted a play about Syrian refugees, and held a symbolic birthday party for Ahed Tamimi, a Palestinian teen activist who was imprisoned for hitting and kicking an armed Israeli soldier after her cousin was shot by Israeli forces.
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For while "The Humans" is on the surface a realistically drawn play about a family facing various crises, Mr. Karam employs this familiar formula to look more deeply at the ways we are all at the mercy of fate and circumstance.
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In a play about two charismatic 30-something, Bukowski-reading, degree-shirking misfits and the guileless teenager they briefly befriend, Ms Baker explicitly notes that a "pause" should be at least two full seconds, and a "silence" at least five.
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Someone was staging a play about Detroit techno, and somehow, Omar S—the don of Motor City's stripped-back, minimal house sound—and his label FXHE Records were involved, along with fellow Detroit OGs Eddie Fowlkes, Al Ester, and Luke Hess.
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Mr. Jones described the play, about the final days of a failing urban high school, as "at once poetic, political, sad, funny, timely, complex and compassionate" and went on to compare the "linguistic excitement" with Mr. Mamet's feisty early work.
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As directed by Mr. Hughes (who has also staged another ingenious play about memory from the Manhattan Theater Club, Florian Zeller's "The Father"), "Incognito" is remarkable for the clarity with which it graphs its various forms of confusion and delusion.
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VIETGONE From the vibrant imagination of Qui Nguyen ("She Kills Monsters"), a co-founder of Vampire Cowboys Theater Company, comes this play about a couple — possibly based on his parents — who meet in the United States after fleeing Vietnam in 1975.
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Then, one day, a friend asked him if he'd ever heard of David Halliwell's "Little Malcolm and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs," a play about a student rabble-rouser who leads a revolt against the college authorities who have expelled him.
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Kirk White chose a more contemporary tack for "Colorblind'd" (through next Saturday at the Players' Theatre), in which an African-American professor (Malikha Mallette) casts a white student (Jenna Sander) in the lead role of her new play about Rosa Parks.
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The brouhaha over Mike Daisey, who admitted to fabricating details in his one-man play about Chinese factory workers, "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs," led to a humbling backlash against the acclaimed writer-performer and innumerable essays.
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It is difficult to imagine a piece of theater more perfectly suited to our jittery, antagonistic American moment than "Quietly," Owen McCafferty's rage-filled, wounded, mournful play about terrorism, civil war and the damage that remains after the hatred cools.
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A high-school theater class in Pittsburgh wrote and performed a one-act play about Carlos and Roby (or, rather, about "Carla" and "Roberta"; "Our class is almost all female," the teacher explained.) And Hollywood pitched them television shows and documentaries.
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He won awards for his production of Sizwe Banzi is Dead—a play about a photographer living in apartheid-era South Africa who starts photographing black women and men whose lives would otherwise go unrecorded and be lost to history.
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Letting the content dictate the form, he has written an aggressive play about lives steeped in aggression, and yet it asks a lot of strangers to sit and be hectored, for the sake of argument, as the source of the problem.
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This is a promising point of departure for play about mass hysteria and the demonization of women, yet the director doesn't dig any deeper into questions of female agency and representation in the three and a half hours that follow.
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Mr. Weller, who landed in controversy last fall when Brandeis University canceled a staging of "Buyer Beware," his play about Lenny Bruce, adds a vaguely ghoulish, shape-shifting narrator (Jerzy Gwiazdowski) to the proceedings, which is also a bold move.
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" 2009 "'Ruined' was a very upsetting play about the Democratic Republic of Congo, where one of the weapons of war was violence against women, but the pictures the show released were of a couple dancing and a woman putting on lipstick.
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The big money and the media attention at the Tony Awards are invariably directed at the musicals and the host, but the biggest short-term beneficiary of this year's broadcast is a three-hour play about the Middle East peace process.
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SCOTT HELLER GENTLE AMBUSH Walking into SoHo Playhouse for "We Live by the Sea," a gloriously imaginative play about a girl with autism by the London company Patch of Blue, I heard a child's voice pipe up from the floor.
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THEATER Nick Robideau's play about Erica (Lacy Allen, above, with Maki Borden) — a young woman who discovers her"objectum sexuality," or objectophilia,and a wholehearted attachment to the sign at the local Dairy Queen — finishes its run on Sept. 24.
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At its core, "Fern Hill" is like a rambling yet too-neat older cousin to Donald Margulies's Pulitzer Prize-winning "Dinner With Friends," a play about the way the ground permanently shifts beneath a married couple whose close friends divorce.
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THE HEIGHT OF THE STORM Florian Zeller's ("The Father") cryptic play about a man suffering from dementia and his wife, who may or may not be alive, comes to Broadway following a successful run at Wyndham's Theater in London last year.
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FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF The Public Theater presents a revival of the 1976 Ntozake Shange play about a group of women of color telling their stories of endurance in a racist, sexist world.
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A SOLDIER'S PLAY Charles Fuller's 1981 play about the murder of a black Army officer and the ensuing search for his killer, which exposes a world of racially charged hatred, will land on Broadway for the first time in this revival.
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In "Enda Walsh in NYC," a mini-festival of sorts running now, St. Ann's will stage the American premiere of "Arlington," an Orwellian play about a woman stuck alone in a room, waiting for her chance to start a life outside.
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Tisa Chang (artistic producing director, Pan Asian Repertory Theater) This was not the 1970s, when there was a protest against Lincoln Center for casting "Narrow Road to Deep North" with no Asian actors whatsoever — and it was a play about Japan.
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Old glory would, once again, trump new money; an elimination from a knockout soccer contest would once again become a morality play about the dangers of consumerism, the perils of knowing the price of everything and the value of nothing.
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That, more or less, describes the ravishing first third of Sebastian Barry's "On Blueberry Hill," the seriously imbalanced new play about love, hatred and redemption that opened on Sunday night at 59E59 Theaters as part of Origin's 1st Irish Festival.
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BEN BRANTLEY 'WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME' Heidi Schreck's play about invisible women and the 20173th Amendment was electrifyingly topical when it ran Off Broadway last year, amid the national outcry over the Supreme Court nomination of Brett Kavanaugh.
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You've already heard me talk about my love of BattleTech's combat at length, and you maybe even watched Rob Zacny and I play about 15 hours of it this year, so I'm not going to walk down the bullet points.
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And in March on the stage, Jen Silverman riffed on the Brontë legacy in The Moors, her play about two literary sisters living in isolation on the moors, with a governess visiting and something mysterious and sinister in the attic.
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The play, about four women who meet in Paris for the funeral of a 100-year-old man they all loved, begins performances on June 7 at the Cherry Lane Theater in the West Village, with opening night scheduled for June 19.
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"Theatre has a huge responsibility right now," says Leigh Silverman, director of "The Lifespan of a Fact", a new play about the relation between factual accuracy and deeper truths, which will have its world premiere at Broadway's Studio 54 on October 18th.
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Following her critically-acclaimed trilogy Father Comes Home from the Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3), playwright Suzan-Lori Parks (Topdog/Underdog, In The Blood) returns with a world premiere play about race, friendship, and our rapidly unraveling social contract in White Noise.
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The blighted environment of "The Caretaker" seems downright luxurious by comparison with the Oklahoma motel room on view in "Bug," the Tracy Letts play about a couple who come to share their seedy environs with the very critters promised in the title.
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According to The Guardian, creators Kezia Cole and Richard Hay spent two years working on "Fulfilment," a new play about warehouse working conditions at Amazon, which will be shown at the Underbelly Cowgate in Edinburgh, Scotland, this August and is performed with puppets.
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Each person onstage was operating in his or her independent universe; from a distance, it all suggested an Off Broadway play about an arena show, where each person surrounding the star harbors a provocative inner life but is trapped in an endless performance.
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Though compression and exaggeration are key writing tools — I'm using them now — they are perhaps more suspicious in a play about the dangers of compression and exaggeration than in the kind of boulevard comedies that "The Lifespan of a Fact" otherwise resembles.
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THE WOLVES Sarah DeLappe's play about the complex dynamics of an adolescent girls' soccer team, which had a well-received premiere last year and was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for Drama this year, gets an encore, thanks to Lincoln Center Theater.
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And, as in everything in life, the best moments are often unexpected—like when I stumbled into Moodymann's home last year after hanging outside the Underground Resistance headquarters, or watched a DIY play about Detroit's musical history after someone handed me a flyer.
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The show's lead producer, Richie Jackson, announced Tuesday that a two-act version of Harvey Fierstein's "Torch Song," his play about the life of Arnold Beckoff, a gay, Jewish drag performer and singer, will open at the Helen Hayes Theater on Nov.
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"Sweat," Lynn Nottage's Pulitzer Prize-winning and Tony Award-nominated play about the woes of the American working class, will close on Broadway later this month — the latest victim of a crowded season in which many plays have struggled at the box office.
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Ms. Roth said there have been discussions about doing a play about Ms. Steinem's life for some years — at one point, there was talk that Ms. Steinem might play herself in a one-woman show — but that the timing now seems right.
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The two big openings during my week there were Tom Stoppard's "Leopoldstadt," a rueful history play about anti-Semitism in 20th-century Vienna, and Tony Kushner's sprawling adaptation of "The Visit," Friedrich Dürrenmatt's grim fable of human greed as a loaded weapon.
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It spans the full range of Baldwin's career, from typescripts of his teenage poetry to handwritten drafts of "The Welcome Table," his final, unfinished play about an imaginary dinner party featuring an ex-Black Panther, a professor and a Josephine Baker-like dancer.
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CreditCreditSasha Arutyunova for The New York Times Onstage the other night at "The Ferryman," Jez Butterworth's wrenching play about an extended family in 1980s Northern Ireland, nearly two dozen people were embarking on another evening of love, lust, dancing, drinking, politics and violence.
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In 2016, two of Rourke's productions at Donmar moved to New York City: Privacy, an interactive play about the perils of modern technology, arrived at the Public Theater, and Les liasions dangereuses appeared at the Booth Theater with Liev Schreiber in a lead role.
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Lamar Miller's shoulder will probably get healthy over the Texans' bye, but after watching Blue play about as well as he can in Houston's past two games, it's possible Bill O'Brien decides the way to keep Miller upright is using his big-back complement more.
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Because he references Arthur Miller's famous play about the Salem witch trials—which was written as a commentary on the Hollywood Blacklist—multiple times over the course of the movie, at one point having the titular heroine echo one of its most famous lines.
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So, other than the sheer desire to see Ahmed up there on stage as the name and face of Hamilton in a play about immigration, freedom, and individuality, why should this Hollywood star be cast as one of the most sought after roles in Broadway?
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I really started writing this play in earnest in 2009 when I was in the Public Theater's Emerging Writers Group, and I remember my mentor said, "You have to write a play about your transition," and I remember I thought, I don't want to.
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This month, the woman brings her passion about the issue of isolating people in tiny, dark spaces to the stage with The Box, a new play about the horrors of long-term penal segregation, which premiered at Z Space in San Francisco on Friday.
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Directed by Kimberly Senior ("Disgraced") for Manhattan Theater Club, "The Niceties" is a bristling, provocative debate play about race and privilege in the United States, and it begs to be argued with — partly because Ms. Burgess has manipulated the contest in ways that feel unnecessary.
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JESUS HOPPED THE 'A' TRAIN Stephen Adly Guirgis's play, about a bike messenger awaiting trial at Rikers Island for murder, is one of two Guirgis plays to be presented at the Signature Theater Company this season, where he joins as a Residency 1 playwright.
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Foster may have made up his mind as early as high school, when he starred in a production of "The Night Thoreau Spent in Jail," the 1970 play about Thoreau's refusal to pay a poll tax because of his opposition to the Mexican-American War.
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Semi will eventually write a play about that plague called "The Spectators" — duBois makes it sound like an Off Broadway miniaturization of Tony Kushner's "Angels in America" — but for most of this novel, Semi is a writer's-blocked spectator peeping into Mattie's private life.
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Disco was dead, Studio 54 had gone cold and Paul Schrader's "American Gigolo" was the first great film of the decade, starring a young actor, Richard Gere, who had come of age doing Martin Sherman's "Bent," a 1979 play about gays killed by Nazis.
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London Theater Reviews LONDON — Set during the Mexican Revolution of a century ago, a production of "Much Ado About Nothing" has come swaggering into the repertory of Shakespeare's Globe, where Matthew Dunster's larky take on a play about hard-won love runs through Oct. 15.
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What it's all meant to add up to is anyone's guess, beyond the sneaking suspicion that Mr. Woods wanted to write a play about today's intensifying political divide from the safety of a period that may not be as vanished as you might think.
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Marianne Elliott's revival of Tony Kushner's epic play about the AIDS crisis and the Reagan era, with a cast featuring the "Hacksaw Ridge" star Andrew Garfield and the two-time Tony winner Nathan Lane, comes 25 years after its British premiere at the same institution.
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The play opens up when Pato starts to talk about his experiences away from home, because the issues are writ larger: this is a play about the colonized and the colonizers, and the ways in which a child can use hate to shape himself.
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This 1907 Yiddish play about an Orthodox Jewish brothel owner and his rebellious daughter, which caused a scandal when it debuted in New York and is the inspiration for Paula Vogel's Broadway-bound "Indecent," returns for an encore after a successful run at La MaMa.
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"Our history's never been written down," said Mr. Fierstein, who plays a character whose lover dies in the UpStairs Lounge fire in "Gently Down the Stream," Martin Sherman's new play about three generations of gay men that starts this month at the Public Theater.
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The year-old Broadway musical "Anastasia" shares "a number of similarities" to an earlier play about the putative Russian royal that are not found in the historical record, a federal judge in Manhattan said on Monday in a ruling that allows a copyright infringement lawsuit to proceed.
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Instead, there are some more fundamental questions at play about a state and the federal government's obligation to enforce the law of the land — and whether we will set what some would call a very dangerous precedent about ignoring the law when we don't agree with it.
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Release date: August 18 Why it matters: There was a hologram of Jon Hamm (along with actual Jon Hamm) walking around the Sundance Film Festival earlier this year to promote Marjorie Prime, a sci-fi movie based on Jordan Harrison's Pulitzer-nominated play about love and loss.
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She rose to fame with "The Revolt of the Weavers" (83-28), a series of lithographs and etchings inspired by a play about an uprising of Silesian weavers in 28, and followed it with "Peasant War" (21903-08), picturing men and women as comrades-in-arms.
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The show they've been working on since forever is a hall of smudged mirrors, with a plot about putting on a show in which roommates of 40 years from the Upper West Side create a play about roommates of 40 years from the Upper West Side.
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EDINBURGH — "Ulster American," a satirical dark comedy about a female playwright from Northern Ireland, a British director and a self-important American actor — both male — working on a play about a violent Protestant loyalist, is the winner of the 2018 Carol Tambor Best of Edinburgh award.
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Others are more subtly provocative: In his early 210s production at Bates College in Maine of "A Raisin in the Sun," Lorraine Hansberry's 22000 play about a poor African-American family on the South Side of Chicago trying to make a better life for themselves, Pope.
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His origin story has gotten its own origin story on Broadway in the form of James Graham's "Ink," a play about Rupert Murdoch (Bertie Carvel, who recently won a Tony for the role) and his opening sally into Fleet Street by buying The Sun in 1969.
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In Le Monde, Jake Lamar — the author of Brothers in Exile, a play about Baldwin, Richard Wright, and Chester Himes in Paris in the 1950s — posits to Chatterton Williams that Baldwin's home, if saved, could become an important place of cultural pilgrimage and host a writers' residency.
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A survey by American Theater magazine shows that "Shakespeare in Love," the 2014 play about young Will's formative years, adapted by Lee Hall from the wildly successful 1998 film version, will be the most produced play in the United States during the 2017-18 theatrical season.
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The company has asked Missy Mazzoli to write an opera based on George Saunders's ghostly novel "Lincoln in the Bardo," and is planning to stage Jeanine Tesori's opera "Grounded," based on the George Brant play about a fighter pilot sidelined by pregnancy who goes into drone warfare.
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" For critics who have noted that "The Inheritance" lacks any explicitly Latino characters, Lopez has a snappy answer: "If you want a play about what it means to be Puerto Rican and deal with housing in New York City, I invite you to explore my play 'Somewhere.
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The play that MCC canceled, "Reasons to Be Pretty Happy," was the third in a trilogy that included "Reasons to Be Pretty" and "Reasons to Be Happy"; the new play, about an encounter between two couples who were once friendly, was scheduled to be presented next summer.
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During rehearsals for the Met's performance, Mr. Hoffman began working on "Riga," a play about the murder of members of his family in Latvia during World War II. The play, which focused on two gay men, one black and one Jewish, opened in Los Angeles in 1999.
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Ivo van Hove, the acclaimed international theater director, will stage the play, about executives at a struggling TV network and their Machiavellian maneuvers for higher ratings — including the manipulation of Mr. Cranston's character, the "mad as hell" television host that Peter Finch played in the film.
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Art Manke's "Pearl's in the House," a musical play about Pearl Bailey, who was not only a performer but also a special ambassador to the United Nations, appointed by Gerald R. Ford, is one of several other productions planned for the three stages at Utah Shakespeare. bard.
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On a recent afternoon, in an interview at the Ahmanson, Mr. Hwang spoke of his deep love for Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals, the play's themes of cultural appropriation and artistic homage, and why we never hear the word "Trump" in a play about the 2016 election.
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The vitality of youth has been drained altogether from the 20-something friends who assemble in "Sunday," the British playwright Jack Thorne's new play about a listless New York book club that gathers at the ashen butt end (or is it the blighted beginning?) of the week.
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A teenage fan dies in an accident right after getting Myrtle's autograph, and Myrtle — rehearsing a play about aging, and fearful that if she's too good in it she'll doom her career — can't shake the memory of the girl, who reminds her strongly of her younger self.
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TAKE ME OUT Richard Greenberg's 2002 play about a professional baseball player coming out as gay, and the many complications and prejudices that follow, hits Broadway again for the first time since it landed there in 2003 (following an Off Broadway production at The Public Theater).
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You half-wonder why Rufus (Gabriel Ebert, a Tony winner for "Matilda the Musical" and an alum of "Casa Valentina," Mr. Fierstein's play about a resort for cross-dressers) doesn't grill Beau about what it was like playing a drag queen on Broadway in the prehistoric 1980s.
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Taking place at three venues — Union Station, Automata, and the Bootleg Theater — offerings include the interactive sound experience Among Us, Brian Getnick's fantastical theater piece Moonchops, a play about contemporary Iran starring noted stage and screen actor Roger Guenveur Smith titled White Rabbit Red Rabbit, and more.
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She does a role play about a voter interaction, explains that you need to get supporters to visualize going to the polls in order to get them to do it, that we mark our contacts as HRC or Not HRC, moved, deceased, hostile, refused, etc, etc.
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Fences is a classic play about class mobility, masculinity, and race in mid-century Pittsburgh, and from what we can see in the trailer it looks like the film will be faithful not just to the script of the original play but also to a lot of its staging.
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The Off Broadway company announced Wednesday that it would lead off this fall with "What the Constitution Means to Me" by Heidi Schreck, a play about Ms. Schreck's experience giving speeches about the United States Constitution as a high school student in the hopes of getting college scholarships.
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Death is played by a sweetly doddery Marylouise Burke, and the role of Everybody—along with those of Friendship, Kinship and Stuff—is assigned by lottery to a diverse cast at each performance (yielding 120 possible combinations; a thoughtful gimmick in a play about the randomness of death).
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Nate: While "Fly" borrows from several different materials, the most prominent is "Waiting for Godot" by legendary playwright Samuel Beckett, a play about two men, Vladimir and Estragon, waiting for an individual named Godot, but we never find out who Godot is, and, spoiler alert, Godot never arrives.
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OSLO J.T. Rogers's play about a lesser-known bit of history — when a Norwegian couple helped initiate the talks between the Israeli prime minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the P.L.O. leader, Yasir Arafat, to hammer out the Oslo accords — will move from a successful Off Broadway production to Broadway.
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On the way to our seats at "Caught," Christopher Chen's intricately constructed, unrelentingly destabilizing puzzle of a play about the anatomy of truth and the provocative power of illusion — presented by the Play Company at La MaMa — we passed through a fragment of a gallery exhibition about the cell.
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In 1857, Wilkie Collins and Charles Dickens collaborated on a play about the Arctic, "The Frozen Deep," in which a malevolent explorer by the name of Richard Wardour encounters his romantic rival in the Far North and is presented with the opportunity to kill (and, by implication, eat) him.
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In a much-quoted, mouthwatering description by Mr. Hytner, the co-founder and artistic director of the year-old Bridge Theater, he suggested that "Allelujah!" would be an octogenarian "History Boys," the 2004 play about grammar school students that won Mr. Bennett both the Tony and Olivier awards.
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Even though we were literally watching a play about ketamine, it was evident that many hours of hard work went into bringing this endeavor to fruition, and the palpable camaraderie of the cast and crew spilled into the audience, making the whole experience feel like a family affair.
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I thought it was far more useful for students to play about with the language that he used, and the structure of his poetry, but also to write in their own register — which could be described as a pretty standard form of English with a smattering of regional colloquialisms.
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Directed by Tony Award-winner Rebecca Taichman ("Indecent") at Playwrights Horizons, it's a play about living in a state of fear and shock and grief, not knowing where safety lies or how to reach it, and about the panicked tendency to see threats even where they don't exist.
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If somebody was going to write a play about a philosopher, Socrates would be an obvious one to pick, because he had this interesting life in which his philosophy and his philosophizing came into the public life of his society and led to his being condemned to death.
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On Tuesday, he attempted to use literature to persuade employees that they should heed his vision of the bureau's legal remit, quoting from A Man for All Seasons, a play about the life of Sir Thomas More in which More is encouraged to arrest someone just for being bad.
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There is a lesson here for contemporary movements about the risk of underestimating the full range of social forces in play, about allowing a dramatic display of resistance to paint reality as we want it to be, and not as it is, in all its richness and confusion.
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Shortly before the opening last week of "Heroes of the Fourth Turning" — his new play about a group of conservative Roman Catholic millennials arguing all night in a Wyoming backyard about God, love and Donald Trump — Will Arbery sent the script to Rod Dreher, the prominent Orthodox Christian blogger.
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In "The Cocktail Hour" (21995), one of his best-known plays, Mr. Gurney's protagonist is a young playwright who returns to his family's home in upstate New York to announce that he has written a play about them and to ask for their approval to have it produced.
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"The Two Popes" thus becomes, basically, two movies, neither of them wholly satisfying -- one more cerebral, much like a stage play about their private meetings and theological differences; the other a biography of Francis and what shaped him, illustrated by flashbacks in which he's played by Juan Minujín.
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Annie Baker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright with whom Gold has collaborated for nearly a decade, told me about an argument they had when they were making "The Aliens," a play about three stunted young men, which takes place on the back patio of a coffee shop in Vermont.
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In "The Cure at Troy" (1990), a skillful translation and adaptation of Sophocles' play about the wounded Greek archer Philoctetes marooned on Lemnos and brought back to the Trojan War by Odysseus, Heaney found a parable for the need for forgiveness between bitterly opposed factions during the Troubles in Ireland.
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Trump -- both because he refused and because his financial dealings appeared to be so complicated -- broke that mold in a way that made some in politics realize there could be serious issues at play about conflicts of interest when it comes to a president's dealings with national and international issues.
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If "The Miracle Worker," William Gibson's play about Helen Keller and her teacher, had hinted at similar themes in 21988, Mr. Medoff explored them in sometimes funny, sometimes wrenching detail, and he did it with a strong female character who, on Broadway, was played by a deaf actress, Phyllis Frelich.
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Mr. Sargent's screenplay for Paul Newman's "The Effect of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds" (1972), adapted from Paul Zindel's Pulitzer Prize play about a widow (Joanne Woodward) and two daughters struggling with poverty and emotional fragility, was warmly received by Stephen Farber in a review in The Times.
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While the US was in the relatively early stages of the coronavirus crisis, President Donald Trump controversially held a 45-minute meeting — originally scheduled to be just 15 minutes — with the lead actors and creators of a play about ex-FBI employees Peter Strzok and Lisa Page's anti-Trump texts.
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Under Eric Tucker's direction, this production of Arthur Miller's classic American play about mania, morality and the Salem witch trials is neither as grim nor as grand as takes on it tend to be (see: Ivo van Hove's 2016 Broadway revival), but is no less vigorous, featuring Bedlam's signature spry approach.
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On January 22015, 2128, a jubilant Meryl Streep stood before a gala crowd at the Screen Actors Guild Awards, in Los Angeles, having just won an award for her role in "Doubt," the film adaptation of John Patrick Shanley's Pulitzer Prize-winning play about sexual abuse, race, and the Catholic Church.
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