
Manhattan Theater Club's coming season of productions solely by white male playwrights led to a sometimes heated discussion on Twitter and other social media outlets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]This musical about two relatives of Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis is playing in Sag Harbor, N.Y.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:28PM[SHARE]Mr. Summers's one-man show details his online correspondence with the title's inspiration: a man, possibly Australian, who submitted lyrics to him over seven years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PM[SHARE]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 07:10PM[SHARE]In 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 06:12PM[SHARE]This 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 05:02PM[SHARE]The 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 05:38PM[SHARE]This 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 05:50PM[SHARE]Among 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 05:50PM[SHARE]Tim 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 06:48PM[SHARE]The 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 06:48PM[SHARE]The shadow-puppetry troupe makes use of music, cinematic techniques and art works to create its shows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:26AM[SHARE]A roundup of five performances from the first week of the festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PM[SHARE]Purposefully 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 05:39PM[SHARE]Carl Cofield directs the Classical Theater of Harlem's production, which stars Ron Cephas Jones as Prospero.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PM[SHARE]Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub star in this production at the Flea Theater, directed by Andrei Belgrader.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PM[SHARE]This 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 11:22PM[SHARE]Michael 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 05:58PM[SHARE]The 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 02:01PM[SHARE]Tamilla Woodard delivers a breezy production that is warm-blooded and frolicsome for Masterworks Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:58PM[SHARE]In 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 06:40PM[SHARE]Mr. 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 12:21PM[SHARE]Sam 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 06:30PM[SHARE]The 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 06:04PM[SHARE]This 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 05:25PM[SHARE]Eve 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 06:44PM[SHARE]This 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 10:27PM[SHARE]Mr. 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 09:27AM[SHARE]Jeremy 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 08:04PM[SHARE]Nancy Harrow and Will Pomerantz collaborate on this jazz musical at the Clurman Theater at Theater Row.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:04PM[SHARE]Amanda Palmer's secret weapon for ART's "Cabaret"? Her high school mentor.
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