
Kelley Curran steals the show in Taibi Magar’s staging of this comedy, presented in Lenox, Mass., by Shakespeare & Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:10PMIn Howard L. Craft’s century-spanning play at Here, J. Alphonse Nicholson plays a minstrel, a faith healer, an F.B.I. informant, an actor and a homeless man.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMThis jazz-infused play at the Williamstown Theater Festival stars Blair Underwood as a bullying nightclub owner and De’Adre Aziza as the alluring stranger who comes to town.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PMThe odd-couple match of flamenco and ancient Greek tragedy in this production at West Park Presbyterian Church makes an “Aha!” kind of sense of the Sophocles work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:38PMThis play by Clifford Odets, directed by Stephen Brown-Fried at the Public Theater, is about a struggling Bronx family with aspirations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMAmong the offerings at this festival is a work in which the lead character wants to be the pope.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMTim Ruddy’s three-monologue drama takes place during an unnamed conflict that seems very much like Bosnian Serb forces’ slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMThe Broadway-bound musical production, which blends hearing and deaf performers, held an open casting call for deaf actors this week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMThe shadow-puppetry troupe makes use of music, cinematic techniques and art works to create its shows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:26AMA roundup of five performances from the first week of the festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PMPurposefully formulaic characters, a gender bend and a ghost with the name of a company member come together in this sendup of a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:39PMCarl Cofield directs the Classical Theater of Harlem’s production, which stars Ron Cephas Jones as Prospero.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PMBrooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub star in this production at the Flea Theater, directed by Andrei Belgrader.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMThis performance artist and singer has remade his “Love of a Poet,” based on Robert Schumann’s song cycle “Dichterliebe.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:22PMMichael Perlman’s play, presented by Fault Line Theater, convenes a group of dinner party guests who tussle over abortion, race and class.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe playwright took a bus from Manhattan to Reading, Pa., to revisit the theater that inspired his new play, “Shows for Days.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PMTamilla Woodard delivers a breezy production that is warm-blooded and frolicsome for Masterworks Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:58PMIn Craig Wright’s comic romance, Kari and Peter meet again at their 20th high school reunion, and he wants her back.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:40PMMr. Wainwright combines his work with that of his father, the writer Loudon Wainwright Jr., in his solo show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21PMSam Marks’s play, at the Flea Theater, tackles art-world pretensions and a frustrated painter and father-to-be’s existential crisis.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:30PMThe Irish drag queen Panti, who gained fame when her speech about homophobia went viral, makes an argument for the freedom to be oneself at the Irish Arts Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMThis mournful play, adapted from a novel by the Israeli-based Lithuanian author Grigory Kanovich, is presented by the Cherry Orchard Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMEve Sicular’s play documents her grandmother’s life, with help from J. Edgar Hoover’s watchful eye and meticulous records.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:44PMThis theater’s 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays includes a marital comedy by Julia Cho and a portrait of intimacy and entitlement by Martyna Majok.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMMr. Wilde talks about his unnerving vampire tale at 59E59 Theaters, which depicts two women — one all-controlling, the other wrapped up in fantasy tales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:27AMJeremy Bloom and Brian Rady’s play, at the New Ohio Theater, includes Catherine Brookman’s music, rising water levels, New England farmers and marine animals behaving oddly.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:04PMNancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz collaborate on this jazz musical at the Clurman Theater at Theater Row.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:04PMAmanda Palmer's secret weapon for ART's "Cabaret"? Her high school mentor.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMHuntington Theatre Company artistic director Peter DuBois didn't have to look far to find someone raising an eyebrow or two at his desire to revive William Inge's “Bus Stop.'' The firs…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMAnnie Baker will have three of her "Shirley, Vt." plays performed in a festival of her work.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 05:58PMAt the Huntington Theatre, collaborators reunite for a new play that reveals a family's tragic flaws at festive times, "Vengeance Is the Lord’s."
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