
Arin Arbus's new production at Theater for a New Audience makes a powerful case for one of Shakespeare's strangest works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]The neurotic stage musical adaptation of the animated blockbuster raises questions about how Disney transforms its biggest hits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]The Parrotheads were after me. Parrotheads are fans of the singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and I am the co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. Normally our flight paths would not…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:32PM[SHARE]The Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical is so laid back it collapses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]In Joshua Harmon's new comedy, all it takes to turn a liberal into a martyr is a deferment from Yale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]David Rabe's dramedy is set in the emotional war zone of a mental health center, where the patients are colorful and the therapists are troubled.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]The characters in Martyna Majok's new play come from Poland, Afghanistan, Honduras and elsewhere. Illegal or not, they're New Yorkers now.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]As Taylor Trensch takes over the title role in the Tony-winning musical, the show's meaning and impact change too.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]In Jordan Harrison's wily comedy, a medieval theater troupe tries to outrun the Black Death " and the critics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Hammaad Chaudry's first play is an ambitious look at the traumas of dislocation among the assimilated children of Pakistani immigrants in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Playwrights this season are focused on many kinds of unsentimental education.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:30PM[SHARE]A terrific revival of this master playwright's double bill of "Homelife" and "The Zoo Story" proves that there was nowhere he would not go.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]A political neophyte discovers the ethical nightmare of governance " lobbyists and donors and super PACs, oh my! " in Sarah Burgess's new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]The Encores! series pulls some oddities out of the American musical trunk and comes up with … an oddity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:47PM[SHARE]In a new one-woman show, the author of "The Vagina Monologues" connects global violence and her own life-threatening illness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]In Terrence McNally's new play, Diaghilev invents Nijinsky, modern ballet and the 20th century. And that's just in the first act.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Politicians, talk-show hosts, feminists, actors and executioners are featured in intriguing productions opening off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM[SHARE]She's got a big idea and he's got a big headache in Greg Pierce's new play about a Rust Belt town on the skids and a desperate plan to save it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]A new play recreates, sometimes shot by shot, the 1973 tennis match promoted as the Battle of the Sexes. If only it scored any points.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Ngozi Anyanwu's comedy wrings all the pleasure possible out of its familiar tropes even as it revamps their meaning entirely.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Dael Orlandersmith's new play explores the lives " both black and white " left behind in the wake of the 2014 police shooting in Ferguson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]A new comedy at the Bushwick Starr satirizes 20-somethings, gentrifiers, landlords and activists. In other words, Bushwick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:46PM[SHARE]In a touching tribute to his father and the tradition of reading aloud, Mr. Lithgow recites two classic tales of deception and comeuppance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]At the 14th Under the Radar festival, artists working with found audio and video stretch the boundaries of theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:11PM[SHARE]Robert O'Hara's latest satire takes on too many targets as it imagines a future world in which men still ruin everything.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]In Lucy Kirkwood's chilling play, the meltdown of a nuclear power plant is not just an environmental crisis, but an existential one.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]Susan Soon He Stanton's new play uses only audio interactions, from voice mail to intercom, to tell a story about the breakdown of intimacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PM[SHARE]Théâtre du Soleil brings a huge, dizzy epic of all the world's ills (and theatrical styles) to the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PM[SHARE]Rajiv Joseph's new play jams 90 years of lies, fantasies, propaganda and conspiracy into just under three hours. Also: the worst soup ever.
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