“The Light and the Dark” dramatizes the life of Artemisia Gentileschi, while “300 Paintings” was born during the fever dreams of Covid.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31AMA production starring and codirected by Kenneth Branagh is thick with Neolithic-fur costumes, but thin on poetic feeling. Kenneth Branagh as King Lear and cast in King Lear. Courtesy the Sh…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMRevivals of a Michael John LaChiusa musical and an early work by the “Past Lives” filmmaker toy with and challenge audience expectations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMIn “Someone Spectacular,” Domenica Feraud skewers group therapy and the futility of sharing trauma in a fishbowl.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:59AMJulia May Jonas turns the menacing male siblings of Sam Shepard’s “True West” into squabbling pregnant sisters in Vermont.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMDespite a juicy premise, this Colt Coeur production, starring Tim Daly and Jayne Atkinson, never manages to take off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMKate Taney Billingsley’s play starts with a fictional apology, but then segregated choirs and a racist waitress create tonal dissonance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AMSide effects may vary: in Lucy Prebble’s play, love and romance go head-to-head with an experimental antidepressant. Paapa Essiedu as Tristan and Taylor Russell as Connie in The Effect. C…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM“Shutter Sisters” at 1st Stage tells the story of two women whose lives intertwine in obvious ways.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:54PMThemes of incest and sexual abuse of minors loom large in this strikingly becalmed play named after a legendarily vengeful Greek mother.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMConflicting ideas of guilt, identity and genetics do battle in this quietly galvanizing play by Ruby Thomas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AMDeepali Gupta offers a meandering and muddled take on the trial of Rajat Gupta, a former head of McKinsey & Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMThe brunch must go on: the final musical by Stephen Sondheim sends up a group of trapped plutocrats à la Buñuel. Cast of Here We Are. Photo: Emilio Madrid. Here We Are, by Stephen Sondhe…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PMTime — and a whole lot more — stands still in Owen Panettieri’s static drama about a doomsday prepper.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:37AMEmma Horwitz makes her Off Broadway debut with an adventurous retelling of a devotional play from the 10th century.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMDespite its thunderbolt of a title, the focus of this memory play is on the relationship between a self-involved author and his long-suffering agent.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:19AMThe gravitational pull of the hurts of yesteryear is on vivid display in Deirdre Kinahan’s drama at Irish Repertory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:25PMThe New York Classical Theater adaptation, playing in New York’s city parks, feints toward novelty but offers little in the way of originality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:25PMIn this “Pride and Prejudice” spinoff from Original Theatre, Jane Austen’s infamous knave attempts to set the record straight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMIn her new play, Lauren Gunderson explores the legacy of the 18th-century French mathematician and philosophe Emilie du Châtelet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMThese actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months.
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