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Sun, 2006-10-08 20:32
Sarah Ruhl's sensational "Eurydice," at the Yale Rep, finds beauty in the heart of darkness.
Sun, 2006-10-08 20:32
Neil LaBute's play "Fat Pig," at 12 Miles West Theater Company in Bloomfield, N.J., is a love story featuring an overweight woman.
Sun, 2006-10-08 20:23
Cornelia Evans will leave her job as director of major and planned gifts for Yale-New Haven Hospital and become director of development at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.
Sun, 2006-10-08 20:21
Al Hirschfeld immortalized the stars of the stage. Robert Miles Parker immortalizes the playhouses where they performed.
Sat, 2006-10-07 03:26
Thaddeus Phillips is proving that he could have been a great silent-film comedian in ¡El Conquistador!, an ingenious one-act, one-man show about a hapless Colombian doorman.
Sat, 2006-10-07 03:16
The promised end comes with disarming swiftness in the Classical Theater of Harlems new production of King Lear, starring André De Shields.
Sat, 2006-10-07 02:01
Henrik Ibsens Peer Gynt, a long and complicated tale, was telescoped into an English translation at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park on Thursday.
Fri, 2006-10-06 22:49
A night out with "Chorus Line" cast members.
Fri, 2006-10-06 21:40
Ron Rosenbaum conveys the unbearably pleasurable state brought on by Shakespeares work.
Fri, 2006-10-06 02:18
In providing us with an archivally and anatomically correct reproduction of a landmark show, the creators of this revival neglected to restore its throbbing heart.
Fri, 2006-10-06 00:47
Selective listings from theater critics of The New York Times.
Thu, 2006-10-05 22:09
The Rev. Keenan Roberts is producing one of his fire-and-brimstone expositions, called Hell Houses, in one of the most secular corners of the universe.
Thu, 2006-10-05 02:11
Richard M. Nixon is portrayed with captivating relish by Gerry Bamman in the MCC Theater revival of Russell Lees's still-savory political satire.
Wed, 2006-10-04 15:42
Lloyd Richards, who discovered August Wilson and nurtured a generation of playwrights and actors, was one of the most influential figures in modern theater.
Wed, 2006-10-04 05:54
Dry-eyed if not quite clear-eyed, David Folwells new play leaves barely a bruise, let alone a buzz, in its wake.
Tue, 2006-10-03 23:19
As informative as it is, this documentary portrait of the playwright Tony Kushner doesnt have time to do more than scratch the surface of its fascinating subject.
Tue, 2006-10-03 22:43
La MaMa E.T.C. is remounting Sam Shepard's 1983 rock concert production of "The Tooth of Crime" to celebrate its 45th-anniversary season.
Tue, 2006-10-03 22:39
This production suggests that Tina Howe's 1972 play was not so much ahead of its time as 10 years behind it.
Tue, 2006-10-03 15:23
Isabel Bigley won a Tony Award in 1951 playing Sarah Brown, the Salvation Army missionary who falls in love with a handsome gambler in the raucous Broadway hit Guys and Dolls.
Tue, 2006-10-03 01:48
Sarah Ruhl's devastatingly lovely theatrical gloss on the Orpheus myth may just be the most moving exploration of loss that the American theater has produced since 9/11.