Everybody’s on hand, from a variety of Smileys to Nerd Face, and from Princess to Pile of Poo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThe Public Theater’s festival has included 12 featured offerings, four cabaret acts and six pieces of developmental work. Here’s what our critics saw.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMIn this experimental play, a white talk-show host and a black science fiction writer have a challenging conversation. Plus dancing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMSet in Dublin during the run-up to Ireland’s vote to repeal its abortion ban, this play by Eva O’Connor too easily pairs up two damaged souls.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PM“Cartography,” a multimedia work inspired by migrants’ stories, presents their journeys as universal and heroic, not merely tales of suffering.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMWith powerfully contemporary stagings of “Betrayal” and “Cyrano,” Jamie Lloyd has had an attention-grabbing year. That’s not what makes him hard to miss.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMSteven Skybell was finally the right age for Tevye. Little did he know that when the time came, the show would be in Yiddish, and for a surprisingly long run that ended Sunday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMThe acrobatics in “’Twas the Night Before…” at Madison Square Garden are perfectly diverting, despite an illegible plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PMLois Smith, Estelle Parsons and Vinie Burrows on age, agility, perseverance and steering clear of “self-pitying old” roles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMAmusing monologues and oddball encounters enliven T. Adamson’s overstuffed play that follows two friends on a very long car ride.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMDonja R. Love’s powerful play balances tenderness and fury to explore how H.I.V. has become a ”hidden emergency” in the black community.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMShows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMInua Ellams discusses his surprise hit play, which has its New York premiere at the Next Wave Festival this week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMAlan Lightman’s novel loses its charm in Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum’s show, which lacks a sense of a sure artistic voice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMA critic who once resisted the charms of this holiday clownfest found herself floating on happiness this time around.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48PMThis meandering jazz-infused drama, told across generations of a black family, strains to pull its focus from white women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48PMThe return of Tony Kushner’s “A Bright Room Called Day” prompted us to ask leading writers: How did it go for you? And what did you learn?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMThe Next Wave festival’s latest digital dive: A tale of grief staged in a Brooklyn cafe that the audience only pieces together by smartphone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMAnthony Black’s play is about the life-sustaining power of creating art. But it never overcomes the dull short story from which it’s adapted.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMIn this Irish production, an 11-year-old actor plays the child who died too soon to get to know his immortal father.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMJazz unites two brothers, one accused of plotting terrorism, in Idris Goodwin’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMA bracingly lucid Corey Stoll embodies Shakespeare’s thane who, step by step, cedes his soul to his own darkest impulses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33PMSylvia Khoury’s insidiously sharp new play arrives as the eight-year-old conflict is making fresh headlines in the United States.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMIn Sean Daniels’s grim autobiographical comedy, a charming stage director tries, and tries again, to sober up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMGeorge Bernard Shaw gets sensitively streamlined in a briskly entertaining production with winning performers at its center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMKate Hamill and Andrus Nichols made their names in a theater company specializing in scaled-down classics. Now they’re forming their own troupe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMAn easily legible production of the ancient Greek tragedy borrows from the tradition of Noh theater at the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMJohn Glover lifts Michael Tucker’s otherwise convoluted and crowded dramedy of baby boomers contemplating life on a commune.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMBy definition, live theater vanishes in the moment; Ms. Corwin pushed to have shows videotaped and deposited in a library collection, which she ran for decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMA French stage adaptation of the John Cassavetes film misses the #MeToo moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMNtozake Shange’s play, with its unflinching depiction of black women’s experience, is coming back to the Public Theater more than 40 years after opening there.
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