Golden Theater, New YorkLaurie Metcalf gives a thrilling performance in a speculative follow-up to Henrik Ibsen’s defining 1879 masterworkThere are sofa plays and dinner table plays. Plays…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31PMLaura Osnes and Corey Cott star in a new Broadway musical, set in 1945, about a musician, a singer, trauma and healing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PM“In a Pickle,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is “The Winter’s Tale” for 2- through 5-year-olds. More emphasis on the sheep, less on the scary stuff.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMShubert theatre, New York Even if the shtick is predictable, Midler – paired with David Hyde Pierce – shines in an exhaustingly energetic revival of the 1964 musical comedyBefore our ben…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:31AMThis nimble revival of Lillian Hellman’s 1939 drama features Ms. Linney and Ms. Nixon in alternating roles of Southern womanhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMChris Wells’s chatty, memoirish show at Dixon Place combines outrageous fashion and original songs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThis magician’s “In & Of Itself” is a solo show about how we see ourselves and how others see us.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMDaydream yourselves back to the golden age of circus at Madison Square Garden. It hardly matter that the conceit doesn’t always work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMMichael McKeever’s play, a Primary Stages production at the Cherry Lane Theater, is possibly the first gay marriage tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMFalse starts and outmoded techniques make this latest iteration of Noël Coward’s creation seem dated, leaving its star with too much heavy liftingSt James Theater, New YorkDressing gown e…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMThe actor, who is on Broadway in The Glass Menagerie, talks about being typecast and struggling to find roles while balancing life as a parentLast fall, Sally Field turned 70. Her celebratio…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 05:18AMThe Walter Kerr Theatre, New YorkThe Pam MacKinnon-directed adaptation of the whimsical 2001 film struggles to deliver the goods, hemmed in by a saccharine songbook and passionless plotIn Am…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PMKate Hamill and Eric Tucker, the team behind 2014’s “Sense and Sensibility,” are back with a breathless “Vanity Fair” adaptation at the Pearl Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMStephan Wolfert describes his experiences during and after the Persian Gulf war of 1991 in this autobiographical solo show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMThe play, by Zayd Dohrn, finds conflict between freedom and fundamentalism in a story of a marriage between the children of Middle Eastern immigrants.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:31PMThis play about Samuel Beckett and Andre the Giant is based on fact and the imaginings of the playwright Gino Dilorio.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMLooking backward and working on a smaller scale have helped the Canadian impresario find his place in the world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMIn his one-man show at the BAM Harvey Theater, Mr. Lepage reconstructs his childhood in 1960s Quebec City.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMThis ardently acted revival shows Arthur Miller’s 1968 play as a smaller, more stolid work than it wants to be — still just a little out of style.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMPublic Theater, New YorkDespite handsome sets and a striking performance from Jo Lampert, this take on the tragic French warrior’s life isn’t quite as wild as it should beTheatergoers sh…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:48PMIn this play, three women try to figure out a suitable purpose for a site behind a former prison associated with Augusto Pinochet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMBelasco Theatre, New YorkThe Oscar winner makes an indelible impression in an unusual and effective take on Tennessee Williams’s American classicEntering the Belasco Theatre for the Broadw…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PMThis new song cycle by Ethan Lipton (“No Place to Go”) imagines a relocation to a spot across the solar system.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMKen Urban’s play blends many genres, including science fiction, sex farce and musical, in this Amoralists production about growing up in New Jersey.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMAn overlay of defeat hobbles this play about a psychiatrist who refuses to testify on behalf of a patient accused of a crime.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMVineyard Theater, New YorkJohn Kander and Greg Pierce’s melancholy production about a teenager recovering from kidnapping, abuse and rape is an admirably offbeat effortWhat good is it sitt…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:24PMSteven Levenson’s comedy-drama explores multiple and contradictory dimensions of self-perception through its portrait of a family, the Fischers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMRomulus Linney Courtyard Theatre, New YorkDespite a strong performance from a perfectly cast Matthew Broderick, this play about a play doesn’t cut as deep as it shouldWallace Shawn is a pl…
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