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Maia 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThe actress is back in concert mode at 76, and doing new material. She’s also looking forward to a bold new take on “Sunset Boulevard.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMAbigail and Shaun Bengson muse on death in their latest work, but its looseness makes it hard to get a handle on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMSteve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Alison Pill and Anika Noni Rose discuss the new translation of Chekhov that brought them to the farm.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMThis musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMAt St. Ann’s Warehouse, this documentary play about a London fire is blood-boiling and aggrieved.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AM“Agreement,” at Irish Arts Center, and “Philadelphia, Here I Come!,” at Irish Repertory Theater, have a timeless feel, rooted in their eras and resonant in ours.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMA new play by J.T. Rogers goes behind the scenes of the shady “news-gathering” that rocked Rupert Murdoch’s British media empire over a decade ago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThe creators of “The Band’s Visit” return with this mischievous ghost story of a musical based on an odd slice of Old West history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:02PMJohn Patrick Shanley’s new play, starring Cecily Strong and David Zayas, is a romantic comedy with a penchant for the resolutely dismal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMDael Orlandersmith’s slender new solo play is a meditation on living that seems also like a curveball response to loss.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMIf Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s four-hour rock opera were aiming to succeed on aural gorgeousness and visual spectacle alone, there would be no cause to quibble.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMGabby Beans shines as a time-hopping protagonist tracing her trauma in Rachel Bonds’s slip-slidey new Off Broadway play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMA meditation on mortality and renewal, “The Following Evening” presents mirror images of two married pairs of theater makers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMKelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James are superb as a midcentury-modern couple free-falling into addiction in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMA once-powerful clan gathers for a family wedding and muddles through the facts and fiction of their past and present.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PM“Queens of Sheba” and “Volcano” at Under the Radar, and “Bacon,” at International Fringe Encore Series, expound on identity, captivity and violence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:12PMBuckle up for “Open Mic Night” and “Search Party” at Under the Radar and two wildly adventurous works at the Exponential Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMAfter years of fighting to win parity and recognition for women in theater, Julia Jordan said: “Everybody gets produced now. There’s much more competition. In a good way.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMMelanie La Barrie, who brought the role of Angélique from the West End to Broadway, flew back on New Year’s Eve with “Hadestown” on the horizon.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMA musical adaptation of “Curves” and a play about two Asian women becoming friends both look at immigrants’ experiences, with mixed results.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMIn Sandra Tsing Loh’s zany play, the stage is star-studded but familiarity alone can’t sustain this story about a group of old college friends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMHarrison David Rivers’s new drama, featuring a strong cast, is having its world premiere at Yale Repertory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMIn his new show, Gavin Creel sings about the wonders of visiting the Metropolitan Museum of Art, but sticks too close to the surface.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMA stage adaptation of J.M. Coetzee’s novel “Life & Times of Michael K,” about a man’s struggles during a fictional South African conflict, includes actors alongside a puppet vers…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMA new musical from National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene stitches together music written and performed in Eastern Europe in the 1930s and ’40s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMMichael Shannon and Paul Sparks star in Arin Arbus’s pandemic-delayed production at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMAt Irish Arts Center, the actor delivers the final installment of his solo plays about the cobbler Pat and his eccentric beloved.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PMLa MaMa Puppet Festival and other stage works this fall highlight the power of storytelling through puppetry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMHansol Jung’s new play riffs on Greek dramas, the Restoration comedy “The Country Wife” and Tony Kushner’s “Angels in America.”
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