the theatre
“An Ark” Imagines the Afterlife; “Data” Imagines a Corporate Hell
[ad_1] There will be future applications of “mixed reality,” I’m sure, and I hope they work with funkier material. Personally, I’d rather get clobbered by holographic McKellens than be told...
In Tracy Letts’s “Bug,” Crazy Is Contagious
[ad_1] In Cromer’s framing, that hollowness begins to feel like the play’s sad theme: when someone is on a desperate hunt for meaning, the source of it ultimately doesn’t matter...
Matthew Broderick Stars as the Titular Grifter in “Tartuffe”
[ad_1] Cross and Broderick here offer studies in otiose passivity. Each gets big laughs from portraying inertia: their performances abound in side-eyed glances and awkward pauses followed by “So . . .” These...
Memory Speaks in “Marjorie Prime” and “Anna Christie”
[ad_1] Helen Shaw reviews “Marjorie Prime,” with June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein, [ad_2] Source link
“This World of Tomorrow” and “Oedipus” Dramatize the Power of the Past
[ad_1] To write “Tomorrow,” Hanks and Glossman adapted several of Hanks’s own short stories, primarily “The Past Is Important to Us,” which he had long hoped might become a movie....
Kristin Chenoweth’s Uneven Gilt Trip in “The Queen of Versailles”
[ad_1] There’s a clarity to the arc of Greenfield’s documentary: first the pride goeth, then a fall teacheth. It’s a shame that the musical gets bogged down by what happened...
Laurie Metcalf’s Stunning Return to Broadway in “Little Bear Ridge Road”
[ad_1] Samuel D. Hunter’s “Little Bear Ridge Road,” directed by Joe Mantello at the Booth, on Broadway, is a small, quiet drama set in a large, quiet corner of the country....
The Unexpected Sweetness of Bill and Ted’s “Waiting for Godot”
[ad_1] The jokes started before rehearsals did. “Waiting for Bill and Ted”; “Bill and Ted’s Existentialist Adventure”; “Party On, Godot!” How could we not make cracks after Keanu Reeves and...
Yasmina Reza’s “Art” Feeds Our Appetite for Argument as Entertainment
[ad_1] Is there anything left of the old concept of debate? The practice of good-faith argument feels harder and harder to find, even as bad-faith confrontation thrives. The whole process...
The Return of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s Masterpiece, “The Brothers Size”
[ad_1] At the beginning of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s poetic drama “The Brothers Size,” now at the Shed, one of the play’s three actors pours white sand—or is it salt?—in a...
