Rattlestick Playwrights Theater 224 Waverly Pl. between Eleventh & Perry Sts. Wednesday – Monday through October 25, $35 866-811-4111 www.rattlestick.org For several decades, people have been adding the phrase “in bed” at the end of fortune-cookie predictions to come up with playful sexual innuendos. But writer and actor Michael Laurence takes it a lot deeper […]
REPLACEMENT PLACE Patricia Noworol Dance Theater New York Live Arts 219 West 19th St. between Sixth & Seventh Aves. April 30 – May 2, $20-$30 212-924-0077 newyorklivearts.org pndance.com Numerous memorable pairs have portrayed Macbeth and Lady Macbeth onstage and onscreen over the years, in various interpretations, including Laurence Olivier and Vivien Leigh, Ian McKellen and […]
The Pershing Square Signature Center The Alice Griffin Jewel Box Theatre 480 West 42nd St. between Tenth & Eleventh Aves. Extended through April 13, $75 212-244-7529 www.signaturetheatre.org In working on Appropriate, his first production as part of the Signature Theatre Residency Five program, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins was inspired by specific family dramas by such previous Signature […]
Soho Rep. 46 Walker St. between Broadway & Church St. Tuesday – Sunday through November 3, $35-$50; November 5–17, $55-$75; November 19—24, $55-$80; Sunday, October 27, $0.99, first come, first served 212-352-3101 www.sohorep.org Following more lavish productions at American Repertory Theater and Yale Repertory Theatre, David Adjmi’s Marie Antoinette gets the stripped-down, minimalist treatment at […]
NEXT WAVE FESTIVAL BAM Howard Gilman Opera House 30 Lafayette Ave. between Ashland Pl. & St. Felix St. September 17-28, $25-$235 718-636-4100 www.bam.org www.roh.org.uk Opera can tend to be a bit high-brow, but British musician, composer, and actor Richard Thomas tends not to choose the most erudite, cerebral subjects for his operas. Ten years ago, […]
THE ARTIST (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011) East River State Park 90 Kent Ave. Monday, July 15, free, 8:30 718-782-2731 www.weinsteinco.com www.nysparks.com French director Michel Hazanavicius has followed his two OSS 117 espionage parodies, Cairo, Nest of Spies and Lost in Rio, with another genre exercise, this time taking on silent film in the charming international hit […]
THE ARTIST (Michel Hazanavicius, 2011) www.weinsteinco.com French director Michel Hazanavicius has followed his two OSS 117 espionage parodies, Cairo, Nest of Spies and Lost in Rio, with another genre exercise, this time taking on silent film in the charming international hit The Artist. Reteaming Jean Dujardin and Bérénice Bejo from Cairo, Nest of Spies, Hazanavicius […]