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Off-Broadway Preview: “All the Fine Boys” at the New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center

January 13, 2017 | News, Off-Broadway, pershing square, Previews, sea wall, the nap > | The New Group

The New Group proudly presents the world premiere of All the Fine Boys, a new play from writer and director Erica Schmidt, featuring Abigail Breslin, Isabelle Fuhrman, Joe Tippett and Alex Wolff. Previews begin February 14 in advance of Official Opening Night on Wednesday, March 1. A limited Off-Broadway engagement plays through March 26 at The Pershing Square Signature Center (Ford Foundation Studio Theatre, 480 West 42nd Street). Fourteen-year-old best friends Jenny (Abigail Breslin) and Emily…

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Off Broadway Preview: Matthew Broderick Joins the New Group’s “Evening at the Talk House” by Wallace Shawn at the Pershing Square Signature Center’s Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre

January 3, 2017 | house that will, midnight, News, Off-Broadway, pershing square, Previews, sea wall, the house, the nap > | Pershing Square Signature Center, The New Group, The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre

The New Group has announced that two-time Tony Award winner Matthew Broderick joins Wallace Shawn’s Evening at the Talk House, with, as previously announced, Jill Eikenberry, John Epperson, Larry Pine, Wallace Shawn, Claudia Shear, Annapurna Sriram and Michael Tucker, representing full casting for this U.S. premiere directed by Scott Elliott. Previews for Evening at the Talk House begin January 31 in advance of an Official Opening Night on February 16 at The Pershing Square Signature Center (The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, 480 West…

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Off-Broadway Review: “Sweet Charity” at the New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center

December 30, 2016 | Off-Broadway, pershing square, the field > | Pershing Square Signature Center, The New Group, The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre

Although it is difficult to experience a musical like “Sweet Charity” without comparing the current production at the New Group with previous productions, that is the only fair way to be critical of the current incarnation of that iconic work done by Neil Simon, Cy Coleman, and Dorothy Fields. “Sweet Charity” at the New Group at the Pershing Square Signature…

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Preview: The New Group Announces 2016-2017 Season

May 18, 2016 | News, Off-Broadway, Previews, sea wall, the visitor, visitor, waitress > | The New Group

The New Group has announced four productions for its 2016-2017 Season. The company’s new season begins in Fall 2016 with the musical “Sweet Charity,” with choreography by Joshua Bergasse, directed by Leigh Silverman and featuring two-time Tony Award winner Sutton Foster in the title role. The New Group’s season continues in January 2017 with the U.S. premiere of Wallace Shawn’s “Evening at the Talk House,” directed by Scott Elliott; followed by the…

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Off-Broadway Review: “The Sensuality Party” at the New Group at Baruch College

May 16, 2016 | Off-Broadway > | The New Group

The main issue with playwright Justin Kuritzkes’ new work “The Sensuality Party” is that it seriously lacks sensuality and it certainly is no party. In fact, perhaps the young author needs to get out more, see a few things, interact and experience what might be happening since the earlier sexual revolution that he (through Speaker’s words) actually claims to not…

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“The Sensuality Party” at the New Group Opens April 15, 2016

April 11, 2016 | chester, lehman, News, Off-Broadway, Previews, the lehman > | The New Group

The New Group proudly presents “The Sensuality Party” as part of its 2015-2016 season. This New York premiere of a new play by Justin Kuritzkes was developed through The New Group’s New Group/New Works play development program. Directed by Danya Taymor, this production will play 18 performances only at college campuses across all five boroughs of New York City, with venues including Brooklyn College, LaGuardia Community College, Gallatin School (New York University), Baruch College, Lehman…

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Review: “Buried Child” at the New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center (Through Sunday April 3, 2016)

February 25, 2016 | be more chill, buried child, girlfriend, last stand city center, Off-Broadway, trouble in mind > | Pershing Square Signature Center, The New Group

“Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.” ― Aldous Huxley, “Brave New World”…

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Review: “Insignificance” at Langham Place (Closed Sunday March 20, 2016)

February 25, 2016 | crucible, how to save a world, Off-Broadway, the crucible > | Pershing Square Signature Center, The New Group

“Turning and turning in the widening gyre/The falcon cannot hear the falconer;/Things fall apart; the centre cannot hold;/Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world,/The blood-dimmed tide is loosed, and everywhere/The ceremony of innocence is drowned.” (W. B. Yeats, “The Second Coming’) In Terry Johnson’s “Insignificance,” currently running in Room 505 at “Langham Place” in New York City (the first staging…

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“Mercury Fur” at the New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center (Closed Sunday September 27, 2015)

September 7, 2015 | hand to god, Off-Broadway > | "Mercury Fur", Pershing Square Signature Center, The New Group

“I saw a room full of men with their hammers a-bleedin’,/I saw a white ladder all covered with water,/I saw ten thousand talkers whose tongues were all broken,/I saw guns and sharp swords in the hands of young children, And it’s a hard, and it’s a hard, it’s a hard, it’s a hard, And it’s a hard rain’s a-gonna fall.”…

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“The Spoils” at the New Group at the Pershing Square Signature Center (Closed Sunday June 28, 2015)

June 8, 2015 | last stand city center, Off-Broadway > | Pershing Square Signature Center, The New Group

Jesse Eisenberg’s “The Spoils,” currently running at the New Group, is the “This Is Our Youth” for the twenty-first century millennial generation and captures the angst of this generation with gripping honesty and often disturbing realism. The complicated dynamics between the protagonist Ben (Jesse Eisenberg), his Nepalese roommate Kalyan (played with a charming innocence by Kunal Nayyar), Kalyan’s girlfriend Reshma…

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