At the outset of the Great Migration, trajectories converge beyond the wreckage of history in August Wilson’s 1988 drama. Cedric “The Entertainer” as Seth Holly, Taraji P. Henson as B…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Phanésia Pharel's wistful two-hander starring Patrice Johnson Chevannes and Natalie Paul looks at a Haitian American family and questions of legacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PM[SHARE]A stage adaptation by Elevator Repair Service brings a madcap energy to James Joyce's notoriously difficult novel. Cast of Ulysses. Courtesy the Public Theater. Photo: Joan Marcus. Ulys…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Robert Icke's adaptation of Sophocles ventures into the arena of modern-day electoral politics. Mark Strong as Oedipus and Samuel Brewer as Teiresias in Oedipus. Courtesy DKC/O&M. Photo…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Quiet chaos, comedic sparks, Bette Midler tunes: Abby Rosebrock's play illuminates the fragile emotional dynamics of a Tinder dinner date. Babak Tafti as David in Lowcountry. Photo: Ahron R…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]Two shows attempt to make sense of the gonzo journalist and Lincoln's assassin, cultural figures forever intertwined with American history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AM[SHARE]In Michael Breslin and Patrick Foley's fizzy new musical, an internet sleuth searches for a pop star wannabe who went missing along with her low-rise jeans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PM[SHARE]"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 05:31AM[SHARE]A 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 07:00PM[SHARE]Revivals 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 02:06PM[SHARE]In "Someone Spectacular," Domenica Feraud skewers group therapy and the futility of sharing trauma in a fishbowl.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:59AM[SHARE]Julia 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 10:32AM[SHARE]Despite 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 05:06AM[SHARE]Kate 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 09:48AM[SHARE]Side 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. Cou…
SOURCE: 4columns at 08:00PM[SHARE]"Shutter Sisters" at 1st Stage tells the story of two women whose lives intertwine in obvious ways.
SOURCE: Washington Post at 06:54PM[SHARE]Themes 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 12:32PM[SHARE]Conflicting ideas of guilt, identity and genetics do battle in this quietly galvanizing play by Ruby Thomas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03AM[SHARE]Deepali 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 04:32PM[SHARE]The 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 So…
SOURCE: 4columns at 07:00PM[SHARE]Time " and a whole lot more " stands still in Owen Panettieri's static drama about a doomsday prepper.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:37AM[SHARE]Emma Horwitz makes her Off Broadway debut with an adventurous retelling of a devotional play from the 10th century.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:43PM[SHARE]We spoke with two actors and two playwrights who will be in the spotlight this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AM[SHARE]Despite 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 11:19AM[SHARE]The 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 03:25PM[SHARE]The 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 03:25PM[SHARE]In 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 04:04PM[SHARE]In 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 02:06PM[SHARE]These 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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