Wednesday, March 29, 2023
Broadway’s slapstick comedy “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” is full of daring sequences. What does it take? Countless rehearsals (and bruises).
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Lunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York
Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford play Stephen Sondheim’s murderous Victorian couple in a bold and barnstorming take
Despite having worn a beard for much of…
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Attention to culinary detail is the best part of this heavily seasoned family drama by Christin Eve Cato at the WP Theater.
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Keith Bunin’s gentle, rueful play at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater settles down among six passengers traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle.
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At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes.
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An affectionate elegy to a Greenwich Village restaurant, Neil Pepe’s production at Atlantic Theater orders everything on the menu.
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The actor stars in this new series as a slickster hawking time-shares on the moon. Now in his 50s, Crudup is getting some of the best roles of his career.
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The first major New York revival of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long?
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Friday, January 13, 2023
The Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
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The Under the Radar festival kicks off with an allegory about climate destruction by the Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed.
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Literary influences suffuse this year’s festival of avant-garde performance. Artists from six shows share the stories that inspired them.
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A play first performed in a tavern in 1665 survives with its title, and the court case it precipitated, intact — but nothing else.
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“Downstate” asks its performers to portray men who have done the unimaginable. Three of the play’s actors discuss what it takes to meet that challenge.
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New York Theatre Workshop, New York
The infamous 1981 disaster has returned off-Broadway with help from Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe
It is a paradox of human existence that while we e…
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Attempts to modernise the gender politics of the classic comedy struggle but there are some moments that deliver enough razzle-dazzle
There are several chase …
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Early 20th-century San Francisco and Guangdong, China, overlap in Lloyd Suh’s artful examination of the emotional price of immigration.
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Though smaller and less glitzy than extravaganzas of years past, “Dream Big” is a brisk, welcoming, back-to-basics experience brimming with pizazz.
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Jefferson Mays stars in a Broadway adaptation of the Dickens classic, a one-man production that was originally live-captured for streaming.
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Will Arbery’s play explores the existential dread filling the minds of an Illinois city’s public employees with the subtlety of a polar vortex.
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Their new Off Broadway play, a dark comedy about power, inheritance and, of course, witchcraft, is now in previews at Lincoln Center Theater.
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In Quiara Alegría Hudes’s new play at the Signature Theater, five performers try to summon generations of willful women.
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The Irish actor’s one-man show on Broadway delves into painful and playful memories alike. He even imitates the oddballs of his Dublin boyhood.
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Not quite a comedy and not quite a thriller, Kate Tarker’s play is an antic study of two women preparing for a game (or possibly an attack).
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The playwright Jiehae Park’s sly and polished adaptation of “Macbeth” transports the characters from the Scottish heath to the halls of a Midwestern high school.
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American Airlines Theatre, New York
A diverse re-envisioning of the 1969 historical musical offers up some great opportunities for a game cast but struggles to justify its existence
The firs…
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Manhattan Theater Club at the Samuel J Friedman Theater, New York
Martyna Majok’s sensitive drama about four characters on the margins is empathetically acted and unusually compassionate
T…
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Elevator Repair Service, the experimental theater company, brings to life the 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr.
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A Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” has a Black lead for the first time, giving Pierce a chance to step into a role he was “born to play.”
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