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Here We Are [Performance] Douban
Here We Are
genre: Musical playwright: David Ives composer: Stephen Sondheim
theater: The Shed’s Griffin Theater director: Joe Mantello



Here We Are, legendary composer Stephen Sondheim’s final musical, features a book by Tony Award–nominee David Ives. It is inspired by Luis Buñuel’s filmsThe Discreet Charm of the BourgeoisieandThe Exterminating Angel.Here We Areis directed by Tony Award–winner Joe Mantello. Produced by Tom Kirdahy, its executive producers are Sue Wagner, John Johnson, and Jillian Robbins. Co-presented by The Shed. Performances begin in September 2023.

乐队男孩 [Performance] Douban
genre: theater playwright: Mart Crowley
During the play, which is set in an apartment on the Upper East Side of Manhattan, backgrounds of characters are discovered during a birthday party.
Harold celebrates his birthday party, thrown by six of his closest friends. He becomes increasingly morose about losing his youthful looks and claims that he no longer can attract cute young men.
"Cowboy", an attractive blond male prostitute who is "not too bright",is one of Harold's presents.
Alan is an unexpected party guest, Michael's allegedly straight college friend,who is in town and anxious to tell Michael something—but hesitant to do so when he sees the group.
His six closest friends are:
Michael is Harold's "friend-enemy",the host, and a lapsed Roman Catholic alcoholic undergoing psychoanalysis
Donald is a conflicted friend, who has moved from the city to spurn the homosexual "lifestyle".
Bernard is an African-American, who still pines for the wealthy white boy in the house, where his mother worked as a maid.
Emory is flamboyant and "effeminite".
Larry, an aggressively sexual homosexual, and Hank, who "passes" as straight, are a couple, who live together but disagree on the issue of monogamy.
During the party, one humor takes a nasty turn, as the nine men become increasingly inebriated. The party culminates in a game, where each man must call someone and tell him he loves him. Michael, believing that Alan has finally "outed" himself when he makes his call, realizes that Alan's wife is the caller when he grabs the phone away from Alan. The audience never learns what Alan intended to discuss with Michael in the end.
Dogfight [Performance] Douban
Dogfight
genre: Musical playwright: Peter Duchan composer: Benj Pasek / Justin Paul
theater: Second Stage Theatre director: Joe Mantello actor: Lindsay Mendez / Derek Klena / Josh Segarra / Nick Blaemire / Annaleigh Ashford



改编自1991的同名电影。为了赢得“最丑女孩大赛”的奖金,士兵艾迪找来了偶然在餐厅结识的服务员罗丝,对于自己即将要经历的遭遇,罗丝一无所知。最终,艾迪不仅没能够拿到奖金,罗丝也因为众人的嘲笑和排挤而愤然离去。良心备受谴责的艾迪找到了罗丝,一番道歉后两人重归于好。在言谈之中,艾迪和罗丝都惊讶的发现他们的身上存在着诸多的共同点,随着时间的推移,两人之间的关系越来越亲密。艾迪即将上战场了,他和罗丝约定,待他归来之时,两人再度相会。没想到,艾迪这一走就是四年。四年后,依然念想着罗丝的艾迪回到了他们相遇的那间餐厅,但一切早已物是人非。

Wicked [Performance] Douban
Wicked
8.0 (45 ratings) genre: Musical playwright: Winnie Holzman
other title: 魔法坏女巫 director: Joe Mantello / Petra Siniawski (UK Associate Director) actor: Kristin Chenoweth / Idina Menzel / Norbert Leo Butz / Michelle Federer / Christopher Fitzgerald



wicked是《绿野仙踪》的前传。
Elphaba是魔法师Wizard的私生女,即绿野仙踪Wizard From OZ中的Wizard。wizard早年经商经过elphaba的家乡,一个美丽而魔幻的故事从此拉开帷幕。

The Humans [Performance] Douban
The Humans
genre: theater playwright: Stephen Karam
other title: 人类 theater: Laura Pels Theatre director: Joe Mantello actor: Cassie Beck / Reed Birney / JAYNE HOUDYSHELL / ARIAN MOAYED / SARAH STEELE



Breaking with tradition, Erik Blake has brought his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside the ramshackle pre-war duplex, eerie things start to go bump in the night. Soon, family tensions reach a boiling point… and the hilarity, heart and horrors of the Blake clan are exposed.

Love! Valour! Compassion! (1997) [Movie] Douban IMDb WikiData TMDB
Love! Valour! Compassion!
director: Joe Mantello actor: 约翰·格劳夫 John Glover / 杰森·亚历山大 Jason Alexander
other title: 反串仍是爱 / 爱情!英勇!怜悯!
A group of gay friends spend summer weekends together at a lakeside house in upstate New York. As the season progresses and secrets begin to surface, the complex relationships within the group are sometimes strained and sometimes strengthened.