
Our chief theater critics on their favorites this year, from "Bruce Springsteen on Broadway" to a host of playwrights tackling life's chaos.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PM[SHARE]After a dismal theatrical fall, this 1990 musical fable, set in the French Antilles, is a big, bold delight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54PM[SHARE]Dark plays are fitting for a dark month, and perhaps for our national mood. These productions offer criticism, mystery, warning and hope.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33AM[SHARE]From the creator of "House of Cards," a Washington-based "Dangerous Liaisons" that isn't.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]The comic actress makes her Broadway debut in Steve Martin's funny if strained play about two couples sharing a stressful celestial evening together.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PM[SHARE]New cabaret shows offer radically different takes on Stephen Sondheim's catalog.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33AM[SHARE]Billy Crudup is having a blast as a Midwestern sad sack and his English alter ego in David Cale's one-man, double-life play at the Vineyard.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Kait Kerrigan and Brian Lowdermilk's musical is about a high school senior who finds inspiration and danger in "On the Road."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PM[SHARE]Jocelyn Bioh's new play takes the "Mean Girls" genre to a boarding school in Ghana, refreshing and deepening it in the process.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]City Center's gorgeous revival of the Lerner & Loewe musical, staged by Christopher Wheeldon and starring Kelli O'Hara, disappears after Sunday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]Two millenniums of oppression may not seem very funny, but in his latest one-man show, Mr. Leguizamo hones the art of comic revisionism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PM[SHARE]In Anna Ziegler's new play, a charge of sexual assault on a college campus leads to a hearing that may be worse than the events that prompted it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PM[SHARE]In Julia Cho's tense new work, a creative-writing teacher tries to reach a shut-down (and possibly armed) young student.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PM[SHARE]With nonverbal characters and savants, a new play demonstrates just how broad and multicolored that spectrum is.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PM[SHARE]"Marcel" and "The Art of Laughter" at Theater for a New Audience offer a demonstration and then a master class in European-style clowning.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07PM[SHARE]Known for brassy musicals like "Dirty Rotten Scoundrels," David Yazbek is also a dark solo act. Now, with "The Band's Visit," his different personas come together.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AM[SHARE]Denise Gough is sensational as a strung-out actress facing a world of questions about addiction and responsibility in a play by Duncan Macmillan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PM[SHARE]With its relentless fusillade of punch lines, John Patrick Shanley's new play starring Jason Alexander and Sherie Rene Scott winds up on the ropes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]A riveting revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis's prison drama may be more timely today than at its premiere in 2000.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]In a hybrid of concert and autobiography, Bruce Springsteen delivers a major statement about his life's work " but also a major revision of it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PM[SHARE]Elizabeth McGovern stars as a narcissistic materfamilias in the first Broadway revival of J. B. Priestley's 1937 metaphysical drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36PM[SHARE]A young black man in 1961 must choose between going to college and joining the Freedom Rides in Jiréh Breon Holder's play at Roundabout Underground.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Does having children tame the wild gay spirit? To answer the question, a new satire by Dan Giles looks to an unusual pair of experts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AM[SHARE]The director John Doyle brings to Shakespeare the same techniques that helped him refresh many a musical. So why doesn't it work?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]A child's illness raises existential questions in Amy Herzog's heartbreaking new play, starring Carrie Coon, at New York Theater Workshop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]A transgender etiquette expert faces pupils who have bigger issues than what fork to use in Philip Dawkins's new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PM[SHARE]In its out-of-town tryout, the stage adaptation of the highest-grossing animated movie of all time offers delights and difficulties.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05AM[SHARE]In Sarah Ruhl's "For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday," five siblings face the loss of a parent, their own mortality and a fear of flying.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PM[SHARE]The playwright Michael Yates Crowley mixes unlikely genres in "The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PM[SHARE]A spate of revivals will allow audiences to consider what's changed, what hasn't, and what Bob Mackie has in the sequin drawer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PM[SHARE]Group weddings, Korean pop, a superannuated Peter Pan and a transgender Emily Post are among the promising theatrical experiences of September.
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