
Things are tense and tingly enough before the curtain rises at any time of the year. What's it like during prize season?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]Fifty years into his stage career, André De Shields cherishes the ability to change what is to come.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AM[SHARE]Romeo Castellucci's Tocqueville-inspired spectacle, presented by Peak Performances, offers highbrow style without the substance to back it up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PM[SHARE]The play, a sort-of autobiographical story about an author and an inmate, includes a post-show "community conversation" about incarceration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PM[SHARE]Stephen Unwin's play, set in Germany in 1941, explores the reluctant evil perpetrated by people who think of themselves as good.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:59PM[SHARE]Michael Stuhlbarg is sublime in the title role of Tim Blake Nelson's admiring but overlong play, presented as part of the Onassis Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]The perspectives of women are welcome in an art form that inherently fosters empathy " and in which it matters greatly whom we're asked to feel for.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:50PM[SHARE]In this comedy by Will Arbery, three sisters slip-slide through time in a brightly heightened reality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:55PM[SHARE]This charming new piece of site-specific theater from the company Third Rail Projects is staged on the steps of the Winter Garden at Brookfield Place.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PM[SHARE]The latest Mabou Mines production is a strikingly designed but ultimately bloodless take on the weird second part of Goethe's classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]A work of historical fiction inspired by the real-life discovery of a tunnel dug during the Holocaust.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:11PM[SHARE]Quincy Tyler Bernstine, now starring in "Marys Seacole," is drawn to the toughest, brainiest roles. And playwrights are drawn to her to pull them off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:51PM[SHARE]A low-key spotter of high-wattage talent, Jason Eagan has made Ars Nova the launchpad for creative types merging uptown and downtown sensibilities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM[SHARE]The decision to give up a baby years ago resurfaces for a couple in Sofia Alvarez's play at Theaterlab.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:56PM[SHARE]A drama set in a college classroom during a campus shooting, "Good Friday," at the Flea Theater, is meant to unsettle and provoke.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:46PM[SHARE]Kristine Haruna Lee's gorgeously complex play is made up of sharp vignettes that open up to explore Japanese-American identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]A dissection of an episode of "The X-Files" is the jumping-off point for an exploration of a fragile and tortured identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]This gleefully but fatally overloaded play riffs on sci-fi, time-travel and airplane-disaster movies, while sending up our screen-obsessed culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PM[SHARE]The scientist in Edward Einhorn's uneven romantic dramedy wants to find solid proof of his girlfriend's devotion. Which is his first problem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:53PM[SHARE]"When Angels Fall," at Peak Performances, and "Non Solus," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, blend circus with dance in feats of perfect equilibrium.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]Two shows enlist their spectators as witnesses, exhorting the Americans in the room to consider what our nation is doing in our name.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]In a new revival, Henry VIII lacks grandeur and Cromwell cunning. Without worthy adversaries, Sir Thomas More's dilemma never delivers the drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]Sure, less paper makes environmental sense. But relying on digital programs betrays what makes the in-the-moment experience of theater so special.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AM[SHARE]In a smart if sometimes shaggy monologue that ponders a divided nation, Mr. Quinn worries about more than the occupant of the White House.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Performers revisit their own fraught memories in recent productions, including one inspired by women who have accused the president of misconduct.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PM[SHARE]The bloody story of Procne and Philomela is retold as a tale of sisterly devotion in this indie-rock opera by the Kilbanes at BRIC House in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PM[SHARE]This stunning Under the Radar festival show tells the story of Valerie Solanas, the feminist agitator who shot Andy Warhol.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]At Bushwick Starr, Diana Oh and her team of "super queero heart questers" welcome guests to a night of dance-filled revelry. (Yes, there's a sleepover option.)
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PM[SHARE]Of the three jukebox bio-musicals about female pop stars now on Broadway, it's the latest that best understands its audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18AM[SHARE]This clever, messy comedy opens with a charming pair of singing elves, yet it's an ill-advised choice for Santa believers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PM[SHARE]This multimedia adaptation for the era of TED Talks and smartphones is visually and aurally striking, but it lacks the spookiness of the original novella.
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