Hollywood has long cast her as a bombshell (“Sin City,” “Karen Sisco”), but the actress has found an entirely different track onstage. Next up: “Anatomy of a Suicide.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMIn Zora Howard’s new drama, the kitchen is where the characters reveal their bickering-but-loving true selves.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03PMA tale about the 18th-century African-American mathematician includes actors, a vibrant marching band and wackadoo puppetry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:36PMIn a Spanish-language stage adaptation of the Junot Díaz novel, the friendship between two Dominican men is a testing ground for competing visions of masculinity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMBarra Grant’s autobiographical solo play plumbs her fraught relationship with her mother, the famous politician and beauty queen Bess Myerson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMThis documentary show, created to teach young audiences about the experiences of refugees, focuses on optimism and hope, perhaps to a fault.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMWith a gown and love for old Hollywood, Busch stars in his latest zany romp, “The Confession of Lily Dare.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AM“Anything Can Happen in the Theater: The Musical World of Maury Yeston” is an old-fashioned revue that ably showcases the Tony-winning songwriter.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMThis cryptic play at the Brick Theater examining a certain kind of mythological American noir is wonderfully flabbergasting, and often genuinely creepy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PMGeorge Eastman’s Off Broadway play is lifted by its direction and performances, but often feels like a cornball sitcom.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12AMShows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMIt’s time for Broadway to embrace what’s most joyous about songbook shows. Not biography, not coherence, but excess. Even “Moulin Rouge!” doesn’t quite get it right.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PMJames Sheldon’s play examines what happens when trauma is used to material ends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMA tepid thriller from Matt Williams leaves too much time to ponder the holes in its plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMRaúl Esparza faces the realities of the restaurant business in Theresa Rebeck’s energetic but formulaic art-versus-commerce comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMWhile Renée Zellweger plays the star onscreen, a host of cabaret performers pay homage to the gay icon night after night onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMThe “Arrested Development” actress made quite the New York stage debut, repeating one fiery scene opposite about 100 different actors in “The Second Woman.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMFocusing on the entertainer’s early years, this Paper Mill Playhouse musical offers buoyant tap numbers but sidesteps the material’s most troubling implications.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMIn a work opening with a goat tethered to a cinder block, the closest we get to Tchaikovsky’s ballet is four dancers representing swans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMIntimate but distant by design, Andy Bragen’s play takes us on a journey many are likely to face with an aging parent.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMSet in a bar on Christmas Eve, this revival at the Irish Repertory Theater plays alcoholism for drama without resorting to boozy histrionics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMThe downtown rock raconteuse Tammy Faye Starlite is celebrating the 40th anniversary of “Broken English” in this hybrid of a show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMA director and a composer play versions of themselves in a fascinating but frustrating reconsideration of a movie infamous for its use of blackface.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMAn Australian production features the same scene repeated 100 times, while a French version stars Isabelle Adjani in the Gena Rowlands role.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMThe latest production by Theater Mitu is a high-concept, low-reward aggregate of undigested allusions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMIn Elaine Murphy’s play, three women from one Dublin family tell a slice-of-life story through interwoven, interlocking monologues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PM“Havel: The Passion of Thought,” along with work by Harold Pinter and one by Samuel Beckett (dedicated to Havel), takes on morality and tyranny.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMThe young, gay, black creator of the musical “A Strange Loop” talks about his process, Liz Phair, soap operas and just about everything else.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PM“The Prom” is the rare show with lesbian themes to reach theater’s biggest stage. Gay women deserve more than drawing their own conclusions about Princess Elsa and Scout Finch.
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