Gender inequality remains a problem, but it’s heartening to see playwrights and performers argue for more opportunities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AMActresses play the brother-rivals in a lampoon of “True West” that works better on the page than on the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMMr. Norris’s play, which had its premiere in 2010, is just now arriving in New York with its jaundiced view of human relations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:04PMThese writers and performers are using the warmer months to take some risks, test themselves and expand their talents onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMMrs. Malaprop misspeaks outdoors when New York Classical Theater brings a lighthearted comedy of manners to Central Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMFor Soulpepper Theater Company, putting on 30 productions at home won’t do this year. The Toronto troupe is also programming a New York theater center for July.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMFor an adaptation of “The Bacchae,” the Stratford Festival hired Tonia Sina, who teaches a codified method of approaching onstage intimacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMAfter a bracing revival of “The Glass Menagerie” this spring, and last year’s “Othello,” Mr. Gold takes on another Shakespeare drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMOne actor and an illuminated toy theater bring ‘A Hunger Artist’ to bitterly comic life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMThe immersive new eco-play “(Not) Water” has been in the making since Hurricane Katrina.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMAn evocative production of Charles Mee’s play features disabled actors on a set that seems reassembled from the drawings of James Castle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMScott McPherson’s play, a deathbed comedy that premiered Off Broadway in 1991, is inextricable from his struggle with AIDS.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMMr. Malloy’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” is up for 12 Tonys. His studio whiteboard suggests how that came to be.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:25PMAriel Stess’s cockeyed social-justice comedy opens Clubbed Thumb’s summer festival of new plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMThe 36th Marathon of One-Act Plays: Series A, produced at Ensemble Studio Theater with the Radio Drama Network, is off to a rousing start.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMThree productions this spring matched the playwright’s audaciousness with exhilarating visions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMMs. Majok, who grew up in working-class New Jersey, has fleshed out her short work “John, Who’s Here From Cambridge” into a larger piece.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMHalf immersive spectacle, half cabaret, this satire is a provocative and unnerving exploration of American racism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMO’Neill’s Civil War-era Greek tragedy is infused with new relevance in a production directed by David Herskovits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMThe Public Theater’s Mobile Unit winds up its five-borough tour of Shakespeare’s comedy about mistaken identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AMBoris Akunin’s take on Shakespeare’s broody prince is full of intrigue, but it often feels like a “Hamlet” highlight reel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PMMs. Wiest plays the beleaguered but unbowed heroine of this Beckett comedy.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54AMIt takes nerve to follow up on Ibsen. But “A Doll’s House, Part 2” is hardly the first Broadway show to check in with beloved characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThis Pulitzer-winning playwright finally gets her due, with a retelling of a controversial 1923 play that featured Broadway’s first stage kiss between two women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMA young couple’s engagement brings cultural tensions to the surface between secular and fundamentalist families. Yet not all is as it seems.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18AMAfter a lonely upbringing, Obi Abili made his way to acting. Now he’s winning raves off Broadway in the title role of “The Emperor Jones.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PMThe new play by Martin Sherman concerns an intergenerational romance between men played by Harvey Fierstein and Gabriel Ebert.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMThe narrator of Courtney Baron’s playreacts with horror when she learns an ex-boyfriend is responsible for a mass shooting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMIrish Repertory Theater has brought back Ciaran O’Reilly’s revelatory production of O’Neill’s 1920 play, with an almost entirely new cast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PMIn “946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips,” Emma Rice directs a fanciful adaptation of another novel by Michael Morpurgo, the author of “War Horse.”
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