In “946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips,” Emma Rice directs a fanciful adaptation of another novel by Michael Morpurgo, the author of “War Horse.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMFeaturing dance numbers, This Is Not a Theater Company’s buoyant daydream of a show is set in a pool on the East Side of Manhattan. Acoustics are a challenge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMKate Hamill and Eric Tucker team up for another Off Broadway adaptation, this time taking on a novel of social satire.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMIn Stephen Adly Guirgis’s play, directed by Estelle Parsons at La MaMa, Satan’s arrival unleashes magic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMStephan Wolfert’s one-man show, “Cry Havoc!,” explores a surprising psychic space where Shakespeare and military experience intersect.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AMPhillip Howze’s play, at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, is an absurdist take on the cultural imperialism of tourists visiting a developing country.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMThe struggle to get by in today’s economy is a tension central to this play by James Anthony Tyler from the Labyrinth Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMAbigail Breslin stars as a love-struck teenager in this play written and directed by Erica Schmidt.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMThe play, by Bryna Turner, is inspired by letters between Mary Woolley, a president of Mount Holyoke College, and Jeannette Marks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMAn honorably discharged private is at the center of this morality play inspired by Dante’s “The Divine Comedy.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMWilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth” made its Broadway premiere in 1942. It’s back, again, with fresh resonance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PMAt City Center, an irresistible Huckleberry Finn but no new insights into the questions of race and responsibility that his story always raises.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PMA new woman in town is really the Greek god Dionysus incarnated as a gardener with a mission in this eco-play at Two River Theater in New Jersey.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06PMMr. Roxburgh stars as Mikhail in “The Present,” a Chekhov adaptation that floats along on a vodka tide, at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMMemory, gender and fantasy blend in this play about a Vietnam veteran and his offspring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMThis solo show, written by Matthew Spangler and Benjamin Evett and starring Mr. Evett, is based on the poem by Samuel Taylor Coleridge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThis Kate Benson play is set in a Brooklyn spot that promises company and conversation, especially for a lonely woman who wants to attract a man.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMFrom Under the Radar to Coil to American Realness and beyond, the curtain’s going up on several January festivals that insist on engaged audiences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PM“The Grand Paradise,” “The Dead, 1904,” “Drunk Shakespeare” and “Sleep No More” are participation shows offering special events the night of Dec. 31.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMThis six-actor adaptation by Matt Opatrny of the Dickens classic brings humanizing touches to the story.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:32PMThe work, a trip through Anna Kohler’s memories of being a young nude model in Paris, is directed by Caleb Hammond and is partly a sensory experiment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMThe Classical Theater of Harlem’s Christmas musical is a memory show; this year it moves to the main stage of the Apollo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMErik Ehn’s sprawling experimental drama at La MaMa, directed by Glory Kadigan, means to be obscure, though probably not to the degree that it is.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMJacob G. Padrón is the artistic director of the Sol Project, which has found deep pockets to finance its goal of ushering Latinos into the theater mainstream.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:02PMThis book by Arthur and Barbara Gelb expresses a professional admiration for Mr. O’Neill but goes into great detail about the unflattering parts of his life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMThe loss of a young son is the central force in this work by the Dutch playwright Lot Vekemans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:02PMThis Hansol Jung play, set from the 1940s through the mid-1970s, centers on a woman with an urn of her father’s ashes and includes Jesus in disguise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMThis show grew out of Israel Horovitz’s radio play of the same name, inspired by an Alaskan avalanche that buried a man in a cabin under 30 feet of snow.
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