Thursday, September 19, 2024
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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Tuesday, November 21, 2023
Thursday, November 9, 2023
Friday, November 3, 2023
Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel’s stately “Translations.”
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Thursday, October 26, 2023
The writer David Ives and the director Joe Mantello continued without the late composer on an adaptation of two lacerating Luis Buñuel films.
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Two new intergenerational sagas, by Nathan Alan Davis and Javier Antonio González, explore the American legacy.
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Thursday, September 21, 2023
Rebecca Gilman and Theresa Rebeck use plants as metaphors for human flourishing in their latest works.
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The playwright’s exquisite new comic drama, “Infinite Life,” nails the absurdity of having a body.
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The new Broadway play, by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, imagines frequently irritable chats among the movie’s three main actors, including Shaw’s father, Robert Shaw.
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