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Off-Broadway News/Preview: “Merrily We Roll Along” Opens at New York Theatre Workshop on December 12, 2022 (Through January 8, 2023)

August 18, 2022 | david anzuelo intimacy, do this one thing for me, hadestown, News, Off-Broadway, othello, Previews > | "Merrily We Roll Along", George Furth, George S. Kaufman, Jeremy Blocker, Jonathan Groff, Lindsay Mendez, Maria Friedman, Moss Hart, New York Theatre Workshop, NYTW, Patricia McGregor, Stephen Sondheim

New York Theatre Workshop (NYTW) (Artistic Director Patricia McGregor and Managing Director Jeremy Blocker) announced today that Jonathan Groff will star as “Franklin” and Lindsay Mendez will star as “Mary” in Merrily We Roll Along, featuring music & lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, a book by George Furth, and based on the original play by George S. Kaufman & Moss Hart….

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Off-Broadway Review: Red Bull Theater’s “American Moor” at Cherry Lane Theatre

September 8, 2019 | hamilton, Off-Broadway, othello > | "American Moor", "Othello", Alan C. Edwards, Carol Rosegg, Cherry Lane Theatre, Christian Frederickson, Dede M. Ayite, Josh Tyson, Keith Hamilton Cobb, Kim Weild, William Shakespeare, Wilson Chin

Keith Hamilton Cobb has been on an urgent mission, crisscrossing the United States since 2013 performing his “American Moor.” Mr. Cobb’s almost-one-man-show is a trope, here an extended metaphor, for the pressing need for dialogue around the systemic racism and other “false securities that our society rests on” (Rachel Elizabeth Cargle). Keith Hamilton Cobb makes it clear that unless we…

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Preview: Tori Sampson’s “This Land Was Made” at the Vineyard Theatre

Artistic Directors Douglas Aibel and Sarah Stern announce casting for Vineyard Theatre’s Developmental Lab production of Tori Sampson’s THIS LAND WAS MADE, directed by Whitney White. Vineyard’s Developmental Labs allow a playwright and director to explore a work-in-progress on its feet in collaboration with a full creative team, and include staging and design elements. Presentations are Thursday, July 26 –…

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Off-Broadway Review: Shakespeare’s “Othello” Consumes the Senses at the New York Theatre Workshop

January 1, 2017 | Off-Broadway, on the head of a pin, othello, sense and > | New York Theatre Workshop

“Oh, beware, my lord, of jealousy! It is the green-eyed monster which doth mock the meat it feeds on” – Iago in Shakespeare’s “Othello,” Act III, Scene 3 Whatever reasons that might be attributed to reimagining Shakespeare’s “Othello” – whether to create interest, heighten symbolism, or foster accessibility – what will always remain, front and center, is the tragic hero who…

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News: Jason Sudeikis Will Star in Classic Stage Company’s “Dead Poets Society”

September 15, 2016 | chester, indecent, last stand city center, mother night, Off-Broadway, on the head of a pin, othello, sweeney todd > | Classic Stage Company

Classic Stage Company (Artistic Director John Doyle and Managing Director Jeff Griffin) announced that Jason Sudeikis will star as John Keating in the world premiere of Dead Poets Society, a new play based on the beloved 1989 film. Written by Academy Award winner Tom Schulman, adapted from his screenplay, and directed by John Doyle, Dead Poets Society is set at a…

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Review: “Broadway and the Bard” at the Lion Theatre on Theatre Row (Closed Sunday March 6, 2016)

February 16, 2016 | Off-Broadway, othello, she loves me, the lion king > | Lion Theatre, Theatre Row

There is nothing better than listening to an actor deliver Shakespeare’s lines with unbridled passion and the natural “heartbeat” rhythms inherent in the Bard’s iambic pentameter. And that is precisely the way veteran actor Len Cariou delivers important scenes from “Twelfth Night,” Henry V,” Richard II,” “Love’s Labour’s Lost,” “Othello,” “Taming of the Shrew,” Much Ado About Nothing,” “Julius Caesar,”…

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