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The article reviews the musical play "Don't Bother Me, I Can't Cope" directed by Savion Flover performed at the theaters in New York on July 25, 2018.

The article offers information on several new theatrical productions wherein male actors play as the lead role which includes Bryan Cranston in "All the Way," David Henry Hwang in "Kung Fu" and Apollo Creed in "Rocky" is presented.

What a rare and rich treat to see a group of performers stretch the classics as far as possible and not one inch further. That's what the misleadingly named Bedlam company has done with its taut, maraudingly high-spirited take on George Bernard Shaw's ''Saint Joan'' at the Access Theater. A protean quartet has created a production to be treasured: just three gifted men play the 23 fighters, schemers, moralizers and executioners surrounding Joan of Arc (the no-less-gifted Andrus Nichols). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

''BLOOD KNOT,'' the 1961 play that vaulted Athol Fugard into international prominence, features two young South African men, one black and one white, grappling over what the world owes them. ''The Train Driver,'' which Mr. Fugard, above, wrote in 2010, features two older South African men, one black and one white, grappling over what they owe the world. These works bookend a rich career for Mr. Fugard, who turns 80 this June and is being honored this season with four major New York productions. These two plays, along with the 1989 political drama ''My Children! My Africa!,'' make up a big part of the Signature Theater Company's inaugural season in its new home. But first comes ''The Road to Mecca,'' which opens Jan. 17 at the Roundabout Theater Company's American Airlines Theater. Rosemary Harris stars in the 1984 drama as Miss Helen, an Afrikaner widow who earns the mistrust of her village when she begins filling her yard with ambitious, whimsical sculptures after the death of her husband. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In ''69degreesS.,'' which opened Wednesday night at the BAM Harvey Theater, Ernest Shackleton and his five shipwrecked crew members look decidedly stoic. Their impassive faces could easily stem from typical early-20th-century British pluck, or from the knowledge that the men have a long, hard winter in front of them. (Longer than they knew: the Endurance's crew members were ultimately marooned at the titular latitude, off the Antarctic coast, for more than 18 months after their ship became stuck in pack ice.) Or they may look that way because they're made of papier-mache. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

When you arrive at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the East Village, the usher hands you a program and a few extra photocopied sheets. One shows a familiar face: that of the usher himself, the playwright-director-actor Rome Neal, currently playing Thelonious Monk in a one-man show at the Moldy Fig, a jazz club a few blocks away. He's also happy to point you toward the bathroom, which is plastered with posters for ''Rome Neal's Banana Puddin','' a monthly jazz jam session and open-mike night at the poets cafe. Just past Mr. Neal, perched at the bar, is a stocky older fellow selling books. (''Three for $20! What a deal!'') That would be Miguel Algarin, a founder of the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in 1973 and the discoverer of many of the authors in the volumes he is peddling. If you'd rather soak up the cafe's history without the hard sell, another founding poet, Lois Elaine Griffith, is sitting quietly at the other end of the bar. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

This isn't your grandparents' ''Wizard of Oz.'' Or your parents' ''Wiz.'' Or your older sister's ''Wicked.'' ''The Yellow Brick Road,'' the 2011 entry in TheaterWorks USA's dependably diverting free summer series for young audiences, is a high-spirited mix of all these shows, particularly ''The Wiz.'' The director, Devanand Janki, has packed more than a dozen songs and several winning performances into this Latino-flavored riff on the L. Frank Baum classic at the Lucille Lortel Theater. No time to click heels in this 65-minute telling: these shoes are made for dancing. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Joseph isn't sure he buys this whole virgin-birth story. The Little Match Girl uses some of her dwindling supply on a cigarette. The fellow from ''The Gift of the Magi'' gets a perverse kick out of his wife's newly androgynous hairdo. These are just a few of the holiday offerings that Steven Banks tweaks fruitfully in ''Looking at Christmas,'' now playing at the Flea Theater. The pleasures offered by these riffs may be fleet and superficial, but they're a welcome break from the leaden romance that surrounds them. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

The French have Jerry Lewis, the Germans have David Hasselhoff, and now it's the Britons' turn to make the case for an American. Not that Sylvia Plath needs the help, although her status as the archetypal Wronged Woman has managed both to canonize and to ghettoize her. Still two productions that had their genesis across the Atlantic are each paying tribute to this sometime Briton by importing two very different Plath-theme plays. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

AS a young actor new to New York, with a cluster of impressive stage credits and a fair number of disappointments to go along with them, T. R. Knight would frequently take note of the television and film actors snatching up choice roles on Broadway. ''You'd have to be pretty thick not to see who was being hired as you walked past theaters,'' said Mr. Knight, who used the trend as an incentive to become marquee material but also to prove himself worthy of the recognition. ''I don't want to be one of those actors who people walk past the theater and roll their eyes about.'' [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the use of a new device called D-Scriptive which enables sight-impaired theatergoers to enjoy the play "Wicked."

Announces the Fidelity Investments' sponsorship of the Broadway revival of “Sweeney Todd,” a scaled down import from London starring the Tony Award winners Michael Cerveris and Patti LuPone.

Reports on the casting of John Ahlin to the title role of the theatrical production "Orson's Shadow," at the Barrow Street Theater in New York City.

Focuses on the achievements of two acting families, the Redgraves and the Burtons, whose members have made their mark in the motion picture industry in the U.S. since 1951.

Features the Off-Broadway theatrical production "People are Living There," written by Athol Fugard and directed by Suzanne Shepherd, shown in New Jersey.

Explains that playwright and director Yoji Sakate crammed 13 actors at once into a 19-square-foot space in the theatrical production "Yaneura", which means "Attic". Surreal dark comedy made of 24 unconnected vignettes that plays off the Japanese popular culture phenomenon of "hikikomori"; Rinko-gun Theater Company; Performance at the Japanese Society in New York, New York.