Friday, January 31, 2025
In two new shows, the Oscar-nominated, Tony Award-winning star and F. Murray Abraham play against their younger selves.
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The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a language.
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In the latest revival of Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne’s iconic musical, George C. Wolfe humanizes a famously monstrous stage mother.
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This year’s standout productions ran the gamut from outrageously fabulous to quasi-religious in feeling.
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Wednesday, December 11, 2024
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film the likes of which we haven’t seen since.
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The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show about the treadmill of life.
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The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the performance artist Alina Troyano summon downtown’s wild spirit, and Elevator Repair Service revives its signature hit.
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Jamie Lloyd casts Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, and Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler play a Gen Z version of Shakespeare’s famous lovers.
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Kenneth Lonergan explores the emptiness of celebrity in “Hold On to Me Darling,” while Thornton Wilder’s “Our Town” proves as moving as ever.
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In Jez Butterworth’s melancholy drama and David Henry Hwang’s mischievously postmodern play, stardom is both a lure and a lie.
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A Midwestern empty nester opens her home to a tough-talking New Yorker in Jen Silverman’s sputtering star vehicle.
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Thursday, June 27, 2024
The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch cross Andrew Lloyd Webber’s juggernaut musical with queer ballroom culture to electrifying effect.
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Sunday, June 9, 2024
In the playwright’s début film, “Janet Planet,” Julianne Nicholson stars as an object of obsession for her daughter—and everyone else—over the course of a long, hot summer in the …
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Superb stagecraft illuminates Robert Ickes’s “Player Kings,” Benedict Andrews’s “The Cherry Orchard,” and Ian Rickson’s “London Tide.”
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Paula Vogel’s “Mother Play,” Shaina Taub’s “Suffs,” and Amy Herzog’s “Mary Jane” strike back at the mother-as-monster dramatic trope.
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David Adjmi’s cult-hit play features seventies-inspired rock songs by Will Butler, while Eddie Redmayne presides over a demonic version of the Kit Kat Club.
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Saturday, April 13, 2024
Thursday, March 28, 2024
The 1993 musical’s already bizarre story, derived from Pete Townshend’s beautiful 1969 album, is even less clear in Des McAnuff’s reanimation for Broadway.
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A director of the modern uncanny steers the first Broadway production of Chekhov’s masterpiece in twenty years.
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Dominique Morisseau revives her 2012 drama about a daughter, part revolutionary, part survivor, whose father devoted his life to the struggle for Black liberation.
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Sarah Gancher’s “Russian Troll Farm” and Sasha Denisova’s “My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion” look for truth in a world of lies.
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With “Bark of Millions,” “Oh, Mary!,” and “Aristotle Thinks Again,” the fabulousness on New York’s stages seems to have reached a critical mass.
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At the first rehearsal for Suzanne Bocanegra’s “Bodycast,” Ruth Negga practices playing Bocanegra, who practices sitting onstage and muttering lines to Negga.
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Shayok Misha Chowdhury turns to fine-grained realism in his extraordinary bilingual drama.
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The playwright Joshua Harmon broaches profound questions of Jewish identity in his drama, but a bigger stage and a changed moment reveal its flaws.
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Wednesday, December 20, 2023
Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright’s “Appropriate” investigates a dysfunctional Southern family’s buried secrets.
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