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Off-Broadway Review: “I Love You So Much I Could Die” at New York Theatre Workshop (Closed Saturday, March 9, 2024)

March 5, 2024 | i love you so, Off-Broadway, the ally > | "I Love You So Much I Could Die", costume design by Enver Chakartash, David Roberts, Jenny Anderson, lighting design by Oona Curley, Lucas Hnath, Mona Pirnot, music direction by Will Butler, New York Theatre Reviews, New York Theatre Workshop, NYTW, scenic design by Mimi Lien, sound design by Mikhail Fiksel and Noel Nichols, Terri K. Kohler Miles, Theatre Reviews, Theatre Reviews Limited

Microsoft’s Text to Speech Voice read’s Mona Pirnot’s script aloud (scored with sequences of punctuation to create pauses and silences) as the playwright sits with her back to the audience at a small desk adorned by her laptop and a small lamp. Pirnot’s non-fictional narrative is the personal yet “Everyman” story of loneliness, love, loss, death, bereavement, acceptance, confession, forgiveness,…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Merrily We Roll Along” at New York Theatre Workshop (Closed Sunday, January 22, 2023)

It is difficult to believe that it has been a year since the death of Stephen Sondheim, one of the most prolific American composer and lyricists in the history of musical theatre. New York has certainly paid tribute to this theatrical icon by continuing to produce revivals of several shows from his vast repertoire, including the present production of “Merrily…

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Off-Broadway Review: “american (tele)visions” Co-Produced with Theatre Mitu at New York Theatre Workshop (Closed Sunday, October 16, 2022)

There is too much noise on the set of Victor I. Cazares’s “american (tele)visions” currently running at New York Theatre Workshop (co-produced with Theatre Mitu). Although that noise comes from what is certainly a dynamic and innovative set design by Bretta Gerecke and a clever technical design by Theatre Mitu’s Justin Nestor, Alex Hawthorn, and Kelly Colburn, it unfortunately masks…

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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: New York Theatre Workshop’s “Sanctuary City” at the Lucille Lortel Theatre (Closed Sunday October 10, 2021)

October 7, 2021 | Off-Broadway, pass over, sanctuary city > | "Sanctuary City", Austin Smith, Caitlin Sullivan, Isabella Byrd, Jasai Chase-Owens, Joan Marcus, Lucille Lortel Theatre, Martyna Majok, Merrick A.B. Williams, Mikaal Sulaiman, New York Theatre Workshop, Rebecca Frecknall, Sharlene Cruz, Tom Scutt

Since the controversy started about the destiny of so called “dreamers” and immigration moved to the forefront of the political spectrum, theatre has become a formidable platform, revealing the many obstacles that face these innocent victims. What has also developed is the now familiar phrase “sanctuary city.” A city that limits its cooperation with federal immigration enforcement agents, to protect…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Sing Street” at New York Theatre Workshop

Quite a few audience members may be familiar with the 2016 film “Sing Street” which the new musical being presented at New York Theatre Workshop is based on and hails by the same name. Playwright Edna Walsh is responsible for transporting the work of John Carney to the stage after being so successful in their first collaboration with the production…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Dust” at New York Theater Workshop in the Fourth Street Theater

September 5, 2019 | back the future, Off-Broadway > | "Dust", Anna Reid, Ceri Lothian, DEM Productions, Fourth Street Theater, Jack Weir, Max Perryment, Milly Thomas, New York Theatre Workshop, Ramin Sabi, Richard Southgate, Sara Joyce

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross’s groundbreaking “On Death and Dying” was first published in 1969. The Grief Cycle outlined in this book remains the standard for understanding the “stages” of bereavement for those survivors of death. Milly Thomas’s “Dust” currently running at New York Theatre Workshop in the Fourth Street Theatre provides a new standard of understanding the stages of grief, one for…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Hurricane Diane” at New York Theatre Workshop

Playwright Madeleine George sets her “Hurricane Diane” in an Early Anthropocene Time, the era defined as “the current geological age, viewed as the period during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment.” Most, except members of the current Administration, see that influence to have been deleterious at best and are aware of the dire…

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Broadway News: “What the Constitution Means to Me” Comes to Broadway at the Helen Hayes Theater

January 14, 2019 | Broadway, hadestown, hamlet, News, what the constitution > | “What the Constitution Means to Me”, Clubbed Thumb, Heidi Schreck, Helen Hayes Theater, Jen Schriever, Michael Krass, Mike Iveson, New York Theatre Workshop, Oliver Butler, Rachel Hauck, Rosdely Ciprian, Sinan Zafar, Thursday Williams, True Love

The Clubbed Thumb, True Love, and New York Theatre Workshop production of What the Constitution Means to Me will come to Broadway this spring for a 12-week limited engagement, beginning performances at the Helen Hayes Theater (240 W 44th Street, New York, NY) on March 14, 2019, with opening night scheduled for March 31. Heidi Schreck’s timely and galvanizing play, directed by Oliver Butler, became a sensation off-Broadway…

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Broadway News: “Hadestown” to Open on Broadway on April 17, 2019 at the Walter Kerr Theatre

Producers Mara Isaacs, Dale Franzen, Hunter Arnold, and Tom Kirdahy announced today that “Hadestown,” the new musical by celebrated singer-songwriter Anaïs Mitchell, developed with visionary director and Tony Award® nominee Rachel Chavkin, will transfer this spring to Broadway’s Walter Kerr Theatre (219 West 48th Street). Preview performances for “Hadestown” will begin Friday, March 22 ahead of a Wednesday, April 17…

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