We spoke to three actors and a playwright — Gregg Mozgala, Bonnie Milligan, Solea Pfeiffer and Noah Diaz — who are taking big shots this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34PMMichael John LaChiusa’s delicate new musical starts in Depression-era California and follows two people across six decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19PMThe Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein musical, in which the drag queen Lola saves a provincial shoe factory, makes an Off Broadway return at the spacious Stage 42.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMAfter reporting on the Creede Repertory Theater last summer, our writer returned for her vacation and took stock as the company restarted indoor performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMIn her new autobiographical solo play, the actress Jade Anouka recounts the joys and fears of falling for a woman after her marriage to a man ends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMThe splashy show, an example par excellence of what makes modern French musicals distinctive, begins a run at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMRobert Quillen Camp’s play, about an antiracist discussion group, starts out naturalistically, but then pivots, with bloody abandon, to the absurd.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMA gleefully juvenile show about the Belgian star, from the writer Timothy Haskell, barrels through his life and oeuvre using toy action figures.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMThe camp reimagining of the maritime blockbuster revs up into increasing absurdity and Celine Dion songs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMAngela Hanks’s new comedy is set in Santa Fe, N.M., where five women of color have traveled for some fancy R&R laced with New Age spirituality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMA three-day retrospective will shine a spotlight on the group’s most daring projects.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMHonoring Pride, Juneteenth and the Fourth of July, the festival features Idina Menzel and Tonya Pinkins alongside poets, fire artists and marching bands.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMChampioning collaboration and digital projects, Mia Yoo is forging her own path at the experimental theater incubator.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMThe protagonist of this new play by Michael McKeever steps gingerly out of grief’s stasis and into the unknown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMWith its production of “The Orchard,” juxtaposing the human and the virtual, the Arlekin Players continue taking creative leaps.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMThe playwright Trish Harnetiaux’s new show, set entirely in a car, follows a family of travelers. It bravely, if not entirely satisfyingly, explores alternate realities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMAnchuli Felicia King’s play about an internet firewall belongs to multiple genres all at once.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMIn her new comedy, Ana Nogueira spins zippy fun out of a fairly conventional story about a friendship strained by resentment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:33PMTaylor, 79, first performed her solo play “Ann,” about the former governor of Texas, in 2010. Now, she’s saying goodbye to the white suit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMJaquel Spivey graduated from college last May. Now he’s making his Broadway debut as the star of Michael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning musical, “A Strange Loop.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMKnown for portraying the luckless Theon Greyjoy on “Game of Thrones,” the British actor shares the items that are helping him prep for his Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMBarry Manilow and Bruce Sussman’s musical chronicles the story of the Comedian Harmonists, a sextet of Jews and gentiles in Weimar-era Germany.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36PMA stage version of Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s classic of children’s literature lands on Broadway but remains stubbornly earthbound.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMLaiona Michelle’s tribute show, now at New World Stages, is more an impressionistic portrait for those familiar with the singer’s life and career.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMBilly Porter brings a heavy-handed touch as the director and adapter of this 1997 musical about prostitutes and pimps in Manhattan’s bad old days.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMJoshua Harmon’s ambitious new play toggles between a contemporary Jewish family facing growing antisemitism and their relatives during World War II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMTwo years into the pandemic, this festival, which has gone virtual for now, abjures traditional theatricality and performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMRicky Ian Gordon’s “Intimate Apparel” and “The Garden of the Finzi-Continis” are premiering in New York almost simultaneously.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMThe Jim Henson TV special was a hit in 1978. Now its furry creatures return in a new theatrical production in Manhattan, just in time for the holiday season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMDigital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
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