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At Longacre Theatre featuring Daniel Craig and Ruth Negga, director Sam Gold takes on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Incoherent yet star-studded.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 04:00PMAt Lyceum Theatre, a production of 'A Strange Loop' pulls audiences in as it tackles coming into your own as a Black gay man.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:31AMThe 1942 allegory returns to the stage with Director Lileana Blain-Cruz and star Gabby Beans at Lincoln Center Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:00PMBeanie Feldstein turns the story of Funny Girl from the rising up and wising up of a great, if troubled, trouper into the wish-fulfillment fable of a moderately gifted young lady.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:46PMMartin McDonagh's 'Hangmen' features Alfie Allen and David Threlfall in a story that explores the abolishment of hanging in 1965 England.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThe relevancy of the material is still stark, even 25 years after it was initially staged.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMRunning at BAM with James McAvoy playing the titular role 'Cyrano de Bergerac' is a beloved tale of yearning, beauty, and desire.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThe current revival at the Hayes, produced by Second Stage Theatre and ably directed by Scott Ellis, is quite good — well-acted, smart in tone and pace, handsomely designed, with some rese…
SOURCE: Medium at 09:08PMAn average ticket price of $212.67 will make a person believe anything. It can turn a Best Western into the Four Seasons.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMThe documentary play 'Coal Country' examines the aftermath of such a cataclysm, the Upper Big Branch Mine disaster of 2010, in which 29 out of 31 miners were killed in a coal dust explosion.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:00PMFifteen new productions will open on Broadway in the month of April, that’s one every other day.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:41PMThe 90-minute drama charts Moy’s journey in America from hopeful teen to jaded adult, a progression shadowed by American attitudes toward Chinese immigrants—ranging from Orientalist cond…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:15AMCross-cultural tension looms over Sanaz Toossi’s English, an understated classroom dramedy about the things we lose in crossing linguistic borders.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMWagner’s message is a simple but deeply humanistic one: We’re all specks in the universe, random, unknowable bio-containers, and who knows where my atoms end and yours begin?
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMOne thing I am certain of: 'Company' is the most sophisticated fun I’ve had in a theater in ages.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 08:00PMIt’s a downbeat fable about escaping the toxic narcissists who created your body.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:39AMIt’s a patriarchal pangender fantasy that simultaneously de-centers and re-centers cishetero masculinity. Fancy lingo for: kinda outdated and icky.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:49AMHe will continue to shape the future of musical theater because he trained our ears, set the bar high, and new composers and lyricists will study his work. For a hundred who try, misguidedly…
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:33AMYou absolutely must see it if you care about Black work on Broadway, American theater, and the evolving state of our “canon.”
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00PMWho knows if musical fiascos such as 'Diana' exist solely for the bitter amusement of theater critics?
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00PMI can’t be the only Sondheim nerd sick of respectful, minimalist approaches.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:46AMEmbracing absurd and cringe humor while bringing it to theater, 'While You Were Partying' is for theater lovers who grew up online.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 03:04PMI’m not actually 100% sure we are worthy of this show, but we need its complexity and density.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 07:00PMHere’s the thing about this harrowing fugue state of a play, written by Lucas Hnath and directed by Les Waters: O’Connell never speaks.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:44AMThe world is getting weirder by the day. I think the audience is ready for it now.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 09:28AMOn at the Manhattan Theatre Club, 'Lackawanna Blues' explores survival and finding heart in your own life, backed by harmonica.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:21AMThere’s no plot to Six, just an agreement among the ex-wives to compete (in song) for who had the hardest time.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:42AMThe fall 2021 season is bustling with excellent theater about Black stories, experiences, and joy. From the experimental to new favorites.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 01:24PMPlaywright Jocelyn Bioh's 'Merry Wives' marvels audiences at Shakespeare in the Park with a modern approach to the canon.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 11:48AMAntoinette Chinonye Nwandu's "Pass Over" has the makings of a modern and Black retelling of "Waiting for Godot" yet stands alone, moving.
SOURCE: The New York Observer at 10:53AMThe enemy of the people is misanthropic technocrats! No! It’s selfish, amoral politicians! No! The enemy of the people is…people?
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