An adaptation of “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” makes a picnic of pentameter, and decadent dining accompanies William Blake in “The Devouring.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMJake Gyllenhaal and Tom Sturridge grapple with love, grief and vulnerability in “Sea Wall/A Life,” paired one-act plays on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMJacqueline Novak’s show, a stand-up comedy set that inclines toward theater, offers a personal and intellectual history of oral sex.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMWhat do two contemporary playwrights have in common with Anton Chekhov? A bunch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMThis play, a response to the rise in the deaths of journalists, is a reminder that imprisonment can happen to anyone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48PMAfter starring together in “The Last Five Years” and “Dirty Rotten Scoundrels,” Norbert Leo Butz and Sherie Rene Scott had a “fracture” in their relationship. How do you set that…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMIn his musical memory play at the Public Theater, he’s no longer being indirect about the violence that shaped, and shadowed, his life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMWhat happens when the “Mindfreak” unplugs? A little less gore and a tribute to a magician who came before him. Plus: boob jokes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMChana Porter’s absurdist take on “Peer Gynt” finds a young woman trying on new identities but finding that none quite fit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMJohn Lennon and Sam Shepard wrote sketches. The cast was unclothed. And it went on to a two-decade Broadway run. An oral history of one of theater’s unlikeliest hits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMJulia Jarcho’s new play is a squirmy, sinister meditation on female desire, with a whiff of ancient Greece.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMLinda Gross Theater at the Atlantic Theater Company, New York The latest from Spring Awakening’s Duncan Sheik is a lush and emotionally impactful production with a smart book from Pulitzer…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:06AMThe upfront standup took down Trump with a blistering routine at the White House correspondents’ dinner. But she won’t joke about him again Here are some things the comedian Michelle Wol…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:18AMWith most of the awards landing in predictable hands and a host who failed to add the requisite pizzazz, the annual Broadway love-in felt rather flat The 2019 Tony awards began with James Co…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:03PMIn this untidy but often poignant drama, Carla Ching brings together the young and the rootless in Southern California.
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:42AMAssaulting the audience with its ‘twerking gone wrong’, Okwui Okpokwasili’s dance-theatre hybrid draws on difficult memories of her childhood Okwui Okpokwasili wants to shake you. Up a…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:48AMSarah Einspanier’s play centers on beleaguered public defenders trying to find ways to nourish themselves and maybe one another.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMThe intrepid young actors from Shakespeare & Company perform on a four month tour, not unlike the traveling players from Elizabethan times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMThe film star is nominated for a Tony for “All My Sons,” a play with which she has a personal connection.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMLaura Eason’s adaptation of the Jules Verne novel is a reminder of how to make stage magic from simple elements.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMDave Malloy, the “Great Comet” composer, unpacks three songs from “Octet,” his (yes) a cappella musical about digital addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04AMThe Winter Garden, New York A stage transfer for the spirited 80s comedy struggles to produce any memorable songs but provides an enjoyably silly night out nonetheless A specter is haunting …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMThe Marquis Theatre, New York Crazy Ex-Girlfriend star Santino Fontana gives a charming performance as a man dressing up as a woman to get ahead What if all that stood between you and succes…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMThe American Airlines Theatre, New York Thrilling, note perfect performances elevate yet another staging of Arthur Miller’s transgressive tragedy A play about the rancid heart of the Ameri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:30PMThe Booth Theatre, New York An inspired idea, a comedic follow-up to Shakespeare’s brutal tragedy, is sadly not enough to sustain a disappointingly thin show Nine onstage deaths, three sev…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:47AMHe played ‘anxious weirdo nerds’ in Pitch Perfect and Dear Evan Hansen, but on his soul-baring new album Ben Platt has a new role ... himself ‘I really like playing people who aren’t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00AMThe Golden Theatre, New York The Tony award winner dominates as the politician in a 2008-set work of speculative stage drama with John Lithgow as her supportive husband Remember when Hillar…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:07AM“Anthem: Homunculus” is a six-hour, 10-episode epic about a man and his teratoma. The tumor sings. As do Glenn Close, Patti LuPone and Cynthia Erivo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:00AMHudson Theatre, New York A standout performance from the brooding actor is the main selling point of an 80s-set comedy drama that fails to match him A small play about big words – sex, dea…
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