New York Times Theatre News

Theater Review: ‘Kiki & Herb’: The Road to Catharsis With Those 2 Immortals

Wed, 2006-08-16 04:00
This hyper-magnified cabaret concert has the heat and dazzle of great balls of fire.

The Atlantic Theater Company Trades One Coveted Chelsea Space for Another

Wed, 2006-08-16 04:00
How the Atlantic found itself at an underground theater is a tale of nimble negotiating and real estate jujitsu.

Theater Review: Elderly Characters Looking Backward, and Forward, in 'Evensong'

Wed, 2006-08-16 04:00
The content of Mary Gage’s rewarding, well-structured play, which is based on interviews with Americans 80 and older, is unexpected.

Theater Review: Patti LuPone in ‘Gypsy’: Light the Lights, Boys! Mama Rose Hears a Symphony

Tue, 2006-08-15 04:00
Ms. LuPone sang with exciting power and warmth in this production at the Ravinia Festival, and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra played with a clarity that made you take notice.

City Expands Its Role in Brooklyn Cultural District

Tue, 2006-08-15 04:00
In Fort Greene, a reorganization of development power and a "ninth-inning good idea" for a theater site.

Theater Review: Robert Wilson’s ‘Persephone’: Swept Away by an Unusual Destiny

Mon, 2006-08-14 04:00
This production offers us an imaginative journey to the heart of the Persephone myth, and a vision of the way that humans tell stories to give life meaning.

Cherry Jones’s ‘Faith Healer’ Performance Illuminates an Artist’s Struggle

Sun, 2006-08-13 04:00
Strange as it may sound, Ms. Jones's performance was simultaneously unsuccessful on a technical level and beautiful to behold.

Collaboration in the Catskills: A Retreat for the (Theater) Troupes

Sun, 2006-08-13 04:00
The Orchard Project, a new arts group, will try to serve theater entire companies who create work collaboratively.

A Connection to Drama Both in and Out of the Ring

Sat, 2006-08-12 04:00
New York State Athletic Commission chairman Ron Scott Steven's dual existence has found him regulating boxing while writing plays.

Theater Review: ‘Absinthe’: Take a Cabaret, Mix It With a Circus, Then Add Mirrors

Fri, 2006-08-11 04:00
This show is part cabaret, part circus and the main event at the Spiegeltent that has been set up just north of Pier 17 at the South Street Seaport.

Theater Review: God Speaks, and a Clown Answers, in 'Creation: A Clown Show!'

Fri, 2006-08-11 04:00
Adults shouldn't hold back from seeing Lucas Caleb Rooney's “Creation: A Clown Show!"

Theater Review: ‘The Jaded Assassin’: A Martial Arts Film, Only Live

Fri, 2006-08-11 04:00
The first decapitation gets a laugh. The shadow puppets are hits. But Michael Voyer’s innovative martial-arts fantasy is all about the battles.

Fringe Festival Still Welcomes Novice Dreamers

Fri, 2006-08-11 04:00
As the team behind the play “The Infliction of Cruelty” discovered, the New York International Fringe Festival is a learning experience for everyone.

Theater Review: ‘Indian Blood’: Rockwellian Reflections on a Buffalo Boyhood

Thu, 2006-08-10 04:00
As slight as it is sweet, A. R. Gurney’s modest memory play is endowed with a measure of emotional heft by its unchallenged but unusually strong cast.

Survivor’s Play Bears Witness to the Holocaust

Thu, 2006-08-10 04:00
Zuzana Justman is bringing her brother J. R. Pick’s 1982 play, about life in the Terezin concentration camp, to the New York International Fringe Festival.

Money Woes Threaten National Theater of the Deaf

Thu, 2006-08-10 04:00
Unless federal and state agencies come to some agreement about its financing, the National Theater of the Deaf may be unable to carry on much longer.

Theater Review: ‘Indian Blood’: Rockwellian Reflections on a Buffalo Boyhood

Thu, 2006-08-10 04:00
As slight as it is sweet, A. R. Gurney’s modest memory play is endowed with a measure of emotional heft by its unchallenged but unusually strong cast.

Theater Review: In ‘The Dispute,’ a Ruler Sows a Garden of Eden to Reap Some Cheating Hearts

Thu, 2006-08-10 04:00
The National Asian American Theater Company’s production of Pierre de Marivaux's play is an enchanting piece of theater.

Theater Review: 'Night of the Iguana': Discovering a Measure of Goodness in a Fleapit

Wed, 2006-08-09 04:00
This sweet-spirited revival has a limpidness that lets you perceive the play’s themes and patterns in ways that a more ambitious, aggressively acted production might not.

Theater Review: Anaïs Nin, Henry Miller and His Wife, All Together in Paris

Wed, 2006-08-09 04:00
Anyone who sees Wendy Beckett’s “Anaïs Nin: One of Her Lives” without knowing about Nin’s affair with Henry Miller and his wife, June, would be hard pressed to identify the period.