Visionary stylist or one-trick pony? With “Network” on Broadway and “All About Eve” on the horizon, the multimedia-mad stage director is ready for his close-up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24AMThis anarchic, unhinged 30-ish comedian with a demented weekly cable access show also pulls stunts for a podcast, including marrying a Tide bottle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:45PMThe Australian stand-up Hannah Gadsby examines a culture that excuses abuse and takes on comedy’s pieties. Laughter is not good medicine, in her view.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:10PMIn a rambling but dramatic and fascinating performance in Dublin, the comic addressed the fallout from her widely condemned Trump photo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMThe experimental theater company stages the Bard’s enigmatic “Measure for Measure” at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48AMOn the wings of his Netflix comedy special, “Staying Alive,” Mr. Morgan closes a stint at the comedy club with more of his near-death experience quipping.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:12AMThese two outsider comedians haven’t exactly gone mainstream, but they’ve had an outsize impact on communications from liquor ads to “Portlandia.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMThis Park Slope venue was shut down after a fire in March, but it has a strong slate of stand-up the week it reopens.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PMMeghan Kennedy’s new play focuses on Italian parents and their three daughters growing up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in 1960.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMLane Moore’s shows involve real men on the dating app, but she works hard to avoid mocking them. The result is a clever show that’s deservedly a hit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMThe dissembling liar at the center of Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen. The hit Broadway musical is testament to the power of skillfully crafted art to obscure moral concerns.
SOURCE: Slate at 08:44PMThe Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan focuses on a near future with New York under martial law.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMThis Pulitzer-winning playwright’s 1996 work, about a 19th-century star of English freak shows, will be directed by Lear deBessonet, an Obie winner.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AMDoes Lillian Hellman rank alongside Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03PMYes, the three-ring circus can seem like a relic. But something irreplaceable will be lost when this tent is closed for good.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMThe Debate Society presents a world premiere based on events at the 1893 World’s Fair in Chicago.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PMSteven Levenson, who wrote “Dear Evan Hansen,” now has a play Off Broadway, “If I Forget.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMThe play, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, focuses on a father-son relationship in a story about gypsy-cab drivers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:04PMWhether they were talking about a wife or a parent, comedians confronted the seemingly taboo subject in stark terms that made us laugh — and think.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMJake Broder brings back a cult comedian in the solo show “His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:31AMIn this adaptation of the movie “The Band’s Visit,” an Egyptian band that arrives in Israel ends up stranded in a remote village after a mix-up at the border.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMClay McLeod Chapman uses the bloody tools of horror to satirize this political season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMMs. Weisz is following in the footsteps of Meryl Streep, Cate Blanchett and Kate Nelligan in David Hare’s drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:08AMThe insult comic has channeled anxieties about food and body insecurities into her first play, “Stuffed.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:58AMMr. Black will bring his red-hot temper to the Marquis Theater in a new show, “Black to the Future.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:49AMThe star of “Not Safe With Nikki Glaser” on Comedy Central will headline six shows, beginning on Thursday, Aug. 18.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:49AMHe died 50 years ago this month, and a look back at his humor reveals what holds up — and what doesn’t.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:14PMDaniel Sullivan directs a version of one of Shakespeare’s problem plays at the Delacorte Theater for the free Shakespeare in the Park series.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:23PM“War Paint,” one of the most anticipated new musicals of the year, opens at the Goodman Theater in Chicago this month.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:09PMMr. Gottfried has been known to show off his creative, filthy and utterly singular mind.
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