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Set 22 years from now — as climate change has doomed the bees and thus humanity — this high-concept play mixes sci-fi with black comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMThis musical about a fabulist at a magazine draws on the Stephen Glass scandal of the ‘90s, but it’s more than a bit of stretch itself.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:01PMAll in the family: a PhD student visits India to film a documentary about queer life in Shayok Misha Chowdhury’s vibrant and charming debut play. Abrar Haque as Choton, Debashis Roy Chowd…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMSet entirely at group therapy sessions, this 80-minute exploration of psychodynamics and healing may leave you wishing for characters with more interesting problems.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:01PMFoster generates waves of zany ecstasy in this delightful concert version of this fractured fairytale for City Center Encores.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 06:25PMA Jewish family — shaken by a recent rise in European antisemitism — uproots itself in Joshua Harmon's passionately argued play.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMBranden Jacobs-Jenkins’s slow-burning satire of white privilege arrives on Broadway in an impeccable production with a dream cast, led by Sarah Paulson.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:03AMThis jukebox musical alternates passionate renditions of Afro-Cuban son, danzón, and bolero with scenes in English that chart the lives of musicians across four decades of love and loss.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:21PM'How to Dance in Ohio' was clearly made with love, but this musical adaptation of an HBO documentary about autistic people learning to dance tries to balance good intentions and razzle-dazzl…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMMary Kathryn Nagle’s play shifts between the Dutch colonization of Manhattan and the subprime mortgage crisis, a concept that looks good on paper but diminishes the characters and their ch…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMPart juke-box musical and part feel-good empowerment fable, this musical from Alicia Keys hungers for a home on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMIn the Theatre for a New Audience production of 'Waiting for Godot,' Michael Shannon and Paul Sparks bring uncommon clarity to Beckett's classic.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMPacked with profanity, anguished sexuality, and high-decibel meltdowns, 'Danny and the Deep Blue Sea' has been drama department fodder since its 1983 debut. Only this time, the acting studen…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:07AMThe story of the Comedian Harmonists—the German (and Jewish) singing sensations forced to break up due to the Third Reich—is told in this amiable if derivative musical.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:18PMThis tale of grief and release is the sort of crowd-pleaser that used to be common fare on Broadway but has long since migrated to small screens.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThis portrait of a Fleetwood Mac-like band slaving over an album is full of novelistic detail and luxurious fly-on-the-wall beauty.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMThe one-percenters of Stephen Sondheim’s final work, 'Here We Are,' are living a life of pleasure, beauty, and infinite possibility. Until Act II, that is.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 02:39PMIt the hilariously desperate 'Gutenberg! The Musical!' two would-be Broadway composers pitch their show about the 16th-century German inventor of the printing press.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThe Druid company's marathon of three plays from Sean O’Casey offers the chance soak up an Irish master who combined gimlet-eyed humanism with corrosive social critique.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:13PMIn no way does Etheridge reinvent the solo theatrical memoir. But she performs with a natural ease, like your wild aunt telling stories over beers one Thanksgiving.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMAt the center of a prodigious cast and Kenny Leon’s clockwork staging are Leslie Odom Jr. and the astonishing Kara Young.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMPlaywright Rebecca Gilman's keenly observed drama arrives Off Broadway at the Minetta Lane Theater from Chicago’s Goodman Theatre for a limited run.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThe most satisfying new work since last season’s 'Downstate' has an obscenely gifted cast, led by Christina Kirk.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:30PMExperiments, parodies, Sondheim, Godot, and much more await you this fall.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:43AMWhat’s gained by staging Chekhov in the round, with actors just feet away, sometimes lit only by a candle? It’s what you’d expect: a wonderfully intense experience of the text.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMRobert Shaw's son Ian cowrote this behind the scenes look at the filming of 'Jaws,' and plays his father.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMThis Broadway adaptation of the 1985 movie has some four-wheeled spectacle to offer. But not much else.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:01PMSinging! Rapping! Demonic possession! Kenny Leon's direction of Shakespeare’s greatest tragedy has welcome, lively touches, but overall the staging feels undercooked.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMIn this one-man autobiographical show, an Orthodox Jewish comic attends a white supremacist meet-up and comes away with thoughts (and jokes) about “the way the world is right now."
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThis family-friendly jukebox musical cobbled around Britney Spears songs see a group of classic fairytale princesses rebelling against a faithless Prince. But it's more marketing gimmick tha…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMExtremely loud and incredibly verbose: a new play from Robert Icke forgoes the subtleties of showing for too much telling. Juliet Stevenson as Ruth Wolff and Juliet Garricks as Charlie in T…
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