Cole Escola’s dragtastic White House farce asks the immortal question: Besides that, Mrs. Lincoln, how did you like the play?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMEasygoing days of drama and comedy are just a few hours away (or even closer) in New York, Connecticut and Massachusetts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AMIs moral leadership possible without parliamentary power? Two very familiar congresswomen battle it out onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMElevator Repair Service’s staged reading of the huge James Joyce novel retains much of its humor, pathos and bawdiness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMResetting the “Memory” musical in the world of ballroom competitions makes for a joyful reincarnation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMA play from Denmark, with a South African cast, turns the heroic tropes of horse operas into the tools of tragedy at St. Ann’s Warehouse in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AM“Hell’s Kitchen,” “Stereophonic” and others are up for top prizes at Sunday’s ceremony. Our critic takes stock of their cast albums, all available now.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMMaury Yeston’s score, stupendously played and sung, is the star of the final production of an excellent Encores! season at New York City Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMSamm-Art Williams’s 1979 play about the uprooting of a Black farmer returns to Broadway for the first time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54PMMaggie Siff plays a war journalist facing the most dangerous assignment of her life: domesticity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMIt’s open mic at the post-pandemic cocktail bar where Dave Malloy’s hypnotic triptych of monodramas takes place.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PMIt was a strong year for female directors, a play featuring music and American productions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMSleek, lucid, amusing, often beautiful, it’s Chekhov with everything, except the main thing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMAmy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PMMichael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen shine as a kingmaker and his creature. But in Peter Morgan’s cheesy-fun play, it’s not always clear which is which.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMEddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMShaina Taub’s new Broadway musical about Alice Paul and the fight for women’s suffrage is smart and noble and a bit like a rally.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PMThe 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting doll of a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMA musical about the groundbreaking Art Deco painter is vocally thrilling but historically a blur.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32PMThe classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMIn works like “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull the pain but to hone it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AMWill the Who’s rock opera about a traumatized boy hit the jackpot again?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMThe circus-themed love story, already a novel and a movie, becomes a gorgeously imaginative Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36PMA cult horror film about a teenage girl with a surprise set of chompers gets another surprise: the song-and-dance treatment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMThe “Succession” star headlines a Broadway revival of Ibsen’s play about a lifesaving doctor and the town that hates him.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMThe 2004 weepie comes to Broadway with songs by Ingrid Michaelson and a $5 box of tissues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMLiev Schreiber and Amy Ryan star in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s moral head spinner about pride, the priesthood and presumptions of pedophilia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMSufjan Stevens’s 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:02PMRecordings of Broadway musicals are often better than the shows they preserve. Here’s a ranking of last year’s crop, with samples and bonus tracks.
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