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Pernicious patterns figure heavily in two thought-provoking plays on small Manhattan stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMIn a just sweet enough production with a strong cast, the “View” host delivers a performance that reaffirms her savvy as a comic actor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMMaking his Broadway debut as the show’s Emcee, the singer is reveling in what he calls “a thinking piece of musical theater.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18AMThe musical, starring Grey Henson, has gotten Buddy delightfully, entirely right. But he is trapped inside a creaky adaptation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24PMMany Tony Award-winning musicals and starry plays (Robert Downey Jr., anyone?) are wrapping up their runs in January. Catch them while you can.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMTiago Rodrigues’s play is intentionally a work of provocation, but it is also stylized to create a helpful distance from events and ideas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMIn this first-date comedy, Michael Zegen and Heléne Yorke play people who might just be willing to settle for each other.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:31PMIn “Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!,” Alina Troyano and her former student Branden Jacobs-Jenkins explore the ways art made by one person can live inside others.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AM“Hothouse,” at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; “In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot,” at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:31PMJulianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher star in this quasi romantic comedy adapted from Ephron’s memoir, which went deeper into her illness and grief.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02PMThe writer Erika Sheffer takes a big swing in a Manhattan Theater Club production examining “the point at which a society finds itself on the brink.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PMAdapted from the offbeat 2012 film, this new musical about loneliness and the longing for do-overs is promising but still needs to find its shape.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMThe Off Broadway plays “Fatherland” and “Blood of the Lamb” explore the grief, anger and fear of no longer recognizing the country you love.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMBut she did “burst into tears” reading Jez Butterworth’s rewrite of his new Broadway play, which left her with 10 days “to create an entirely new character.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54AMHolding tightly to the Dublin accent of her character, the actress talks about starring in Nancy Harris’s feminist thriller at Irish Rep.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMThe Tony winner leads a top-notch cast in Zhailon Levingston’s alluringly designed production of Douglas Lyons’s hopeful new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:32PMMatthew Broderick stars in “Babbitt” in Washington, D.C., and five companies nationwide will stage Eboni Booth’s Pulitzer-winning play “Primary Trust.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMNew York stages are welcoming Robert Downey Jr., Adam Driver, Audra McDonald and more this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMKristin Chenoweth stars in “The Queen of Versailles” in Boston, while a new “Gatsby” musical in Cambridge takes Myrtle seriously.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AMAt Lincoln Center Theater, Phillip Howze’s daring new play offers a hefty critique but takes aim at more targets than it can accommodate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMFun is the main point of Carl Cofield’s stylish outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s comic fantasy for the Classical Theater of Harlem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMMarin Ireland’s play opens with Tatiana Maslany in a rotating cast of stars, and “What Became of Us” continues its own experiment with changing casts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMIn the Tony-nominated “Mother Play,” the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to understand — and to forgive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMShayan Lotfi’s topical play about a family building a new life in a new country leaves the details vague, deliberately.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMMadison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute “All of Me” — proof that depictions of disability onstage don’t have to be “a buzz kill,” as Ferris puts it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMIn “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMLauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones star in an achingly romantic, softly sexy new musical by Rachel Bonds and Zoe Sarnak.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMMaia Novi stars in her play about a Hollywood-struck actress from Argentina who stops at Yale’s drama school and an inpatient psych ward on her way.
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