Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Trip Cullman’s unmoored production of this atypical comedy from Tennessee Williams presents sexual attraction as a raging force of nature.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54PMSunday, October 13, 2019
This head-tripping play from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, inspired by Euripides’ “The Bacchae,” allows women past and present to find catharsis in one truly wild bash.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMThursday, October 10, 2019
Tracy Letts, the author of “August: Osage County,” reinvents the midlife crisis play with a hilarity that scalds in this Steppenwolf production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
Ross Golan’s dark chamber musical, based on a concept album, stars the excellent Joshua Henry as an innocent man on the lam.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMMonday, October 7, 2019
In this haunting memoir of his relationship with a homeless man, Mr. Oliver confirms his status as a poet laureate of New York’s dispossessed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36AMWednesday, October 2, 2019
This exultant evening of improvised rap — created by Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Veneziale — turns out to be a perfect fit for Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMTuesday, October 1, 2019
Ben Brantley and Jesse Green respond to readers curious about the Tony race, hungry for happy fare, and heading to London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMTuesday, September 24, 2019
Alexis Scheer’s vibrant play about four teenage girls, a Ouija board and a narco-terrorist summons the truly scary spirits that keep us awake at night.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMMonday, September 23, 2019
In Jack Thorne’s listless new play, a group of feckless friends gather to discuss Anne Tyler and share their self-consciousness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMSunday, September 22, 2019
This distillation of Don DeLillo’s 1985 novel, by the director who deconstructed “Oklahoma!,” catalogs the clutter of the American mind.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMWednesday, September 18, 2019
His eyesight failing but schedule still packed, the 94-year-old stage director reflects on a globe-spanning career that includes a New York premiere this week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AMMonday, September 16, 2019
Jaclyn Backhaus’s slapdash comedy, at Playwright’s Horizons, travels through time to coax oppressed spouses out of their powerful husband’s shadows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMSunday, September 15, 2019
This one-mentalist show, in which Mr. Brown peers into the minds of his audience, offers exhilaration and comfort to New York City’s head cases.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMThursday, September 5, 2019
Mr. Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox portray three friends in flux in Jamie Lloyd’s revelatory interpretation of a Harold Pinter classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMWednesday, September 4, 2019
New York stages will bop to the songbooks of Bob Dylan, Alanis Morissette, Tina Turner and David Byrne this season. And that’s not counting the 70 songwriters of “Moulin Rouge!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMThursday, August 29, 2019
Jonathan Spector’s lively portrait of a debate over mandatory vaccinations is the perfect play for our age of disagreement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMWednesday, August 21, 2019
Jason O’Connell and Brenda Withers’s adaptation of “Cyrano de Bergerac” at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival asks us not to take anything at face value.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMMonday, August 12, 2019
Andrew Scott, John Malkovich and Clive Owen are among the West End actors portraying men hopelessly in thrall to erotic impulses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMWednesday, August 7, 2019
The trapezes disguised as bedding may encourage you to trip the enchanted glade with the frisky cast of this London production. Feel free.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PMMonday, August 5, 2019
Jonathan Cake finds the cracks in the macho surface of Shakespeare’s strangest tragic hero in Daniel Sullivan’s fiery production in Central Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMFriday, July 26, 2019
Forbidden pleasures abound in this spectacular musical, starring a dazzling Karen Olivo as a doomed Parisian chanteuse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36AMThursday, July 25, 2019
In this musical theater piece adapted from a Langston Hughes poem, the bass-baritone Davóne Tines embodies the evolving, divided soul of black America.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThursday, July 18, 2019
Miranda Haymon’s play relocates Kafka’s horrific tale of punishment to a contemporary world where African-American men are expendable entertainment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMWednesday, July 17, 2019
In this retelling of Euripides’ tragedy of an abandoned lover, the heroine is a shy seamstress in seclusion in the Queens neighborhood of Corona.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03PMTuesday, July 16, 2019
In this latter-day variation on Arthur Miller’s “The Crucible,” the young British dramatist Chris Urch creates a portrait of gay love under siege.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18AMSunday, July 14, 2019
Michael Gordon and Deborah Artman’s unsettling chamber opera, directed by Daniel Fish, unfolds with the scraping sounds of a horror film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMTuesday, July 9, 2019
A by-the-numbers jukebox musical weighs the evidence for and against the groundbreaking ’50s disc jockey Alan Freed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMMonday, July 1, 2019
Robert O’Hara’s interpretation of Lorraine Hansberry’s classic, starring a brilliant S. Epatha Merkerson, puts the audience in the hot seat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMThursday, June 27, 2019
Grace McLean’s eccentric and opaque new musical considers the traumatic roots of the sainted medieval mystic and composer Hildegard von Bingen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMThis revival of the 1977 musical about the monotony of earning a living custom-tailors the original for City Center’s 75th anniversary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMSunday, June 23, 2019
Daniel Glenn’s astutely goofy portrait of legislative gridlock in the Plymouth Colony casts women as some seriously conflicted founding fathers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM 
