A musical adaptation of the 1985 cult horror movie doesn't stint on blood, or on laughs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09PMA review of a new musical about an aspiring maitre d' who journeys from Idaho to New York to make it big.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:14PMIn Megan Hart’s “This Is Fiction,” a daughter writes a roman à clef about her dead, alcoholic mother, alarming her family, including her father.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00PMEthan Lipton’s wine-dark satire, “Luther,” looks at a society in which Americans adopt military veterans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:59AMSusan Mosakowski’s “Escape” follows three pairs of people in an apartment building, with everyone looking for a measure of liberation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09PMEthan Lipton’s “Luther” looks at a society in which Americans adopt military veterans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:09PM“Take What Is Yours” is a psychological thriller about Alice Paul and the women’s suffrage movement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA 1906 adaptation of Edith Wharton’s “House of Mirth,” presented at Metropolitan Playhouse, displays the theatrical conventions of the melodramas of its time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:29PMA decade after taking Broadway by storm in “Urinetown,” Spencer Kayden is back in New York with a Tony nomination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:11AMIn “Eavesdropping on Dreams,” presented by the Barefoot Theater Company, three generations of women alternately deny and confront a past tied to the Holocaust.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:56PM“Color Between the Lines” strives to document many of the forgotten abolitionist heroes of Brooklyn, with an emphasis on “many.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:53PMMining the Web for material, “Blogologues: Younger Than Springtime,” at the Players Theater, acts out the best bits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:14PMIn pacing, tone and general absurdities, “Your Boyfriend May Be Imaginary,” a sharp new comedy by Larry Kunofsky, has the feel of a David Sedaris story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PMThe autobiographical play “From the Same Cloth” finds Megan Auster-Rosen setting out a journey, as her father did in the 1970s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:51PM“My Occasion of Sin,” a play about race and riots in the 1960s, is laced with the tumult of that era.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PM“Lifeline,” at the Abingdon Theater, focuses on a friendly landlord and his creepy new tenant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:45PMIn a little under an hour, “That Beautiful Laugh,” at the Club at La MaMa, presents some astounding feats of physical comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PM“Make Mine Manhattan,” a sweet little revue first produced in 1948, is being revived at the Connelly Theater in a scaled-down version by UnsungMusicalsCo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:17PMA slavetrader is at the mercy of a recent sale in the Abingdon Theater Company’s production of “Lost on the Natchez Trace.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:04PMAndres Chulisi Rodriguez portrays two brothers in the one-man show “Growing Up Gonzales” at the Jan Hus Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:08PM“These Seven Sicknesses,” a condensed adaptation of Sophocles’ seven surviving plays, is being performed at the Flea Theater by its resident acting company, the Bats.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:17PM“Leakey’s Ladies,” at Dixon Place, is a drama about the primatologists Jane Goodall, Dian Fossey and Biruté Galdikas and their relationship with Louis Leakey.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMThere is nothing escapist about “Bridesburg,” in which a family suffering poverty, unemployment and hopelessness is pulled into a vortex of desperation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07PMCritics and writers for The New York Times recall their favorite moments onstage in 2011, some of them happening in the smallest and most offbeat of places.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PMBaba Brinkman has unlocked another intimidating masterpiece from the ivory tower — “The Canterbury Tales.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:54PMSeventy-some years ago, the nonstop machine-gun fire of one-liners in “The Man Who Came to Dinner” was fresh and topical. Today — in a revival at the Theater at St. Clement’s — not…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMIn style and content “The Jazz Singer” is undeniably a period piece, schmaltzy and partly calcified by some dated dialogue. But its core themes endure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:55PMSteven Boyer maintains the illusion of two simultaneous performances in “Hand to God,” as a teenager and his violent and vulgar puppet alter id.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:05PMCzechoslovak-American Marionette Theater’s stage adaptation of “Golem,” uses dance, klezmer music and marionettes to tell the legend of a clay giant created to protect the Jews of Prag…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PMA play by Carla Ching traces two Chinese-born adopted children adrift in New York City.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01PM“Pangs of the Messiah,” at the 14th Street Y, follows a family of Zionist settlers being removed from the West Bank in 2014 as part of a fictional peace treaty.
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