Pershing Square Signature Center, New YorkEisenberg is such a skilled practitioner of the comedy of mortification it’s surprising he can talk through all the feet in his mouth – but is i…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:18AMGerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New YorkThe Wall Street maniac rides again in a musical rich in synth pop and buff bodies, but the meaning of the original novel slides off the slick surroundingsH…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 02:34PMVallejo Gantner, the artistic director of PS122 who will step down when a replacement is found, said, “You want to leave when the going’s good.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:01PMThe adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s modern classic couldn’t survive in a competitive theater landscape where only the very best is good enoughThe Broadway run of American Psycho, the m…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:01PMThis solo show, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, imagines that “Friends” couple struggling in a long-term relationship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMLyric Theatre, New YorkThe popular circus troupe’s first Broadway show is a cacophony of ridiculous extravagance, from an erotic aerial pas de deux to … zombiesFitfully thrilling and con…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:44AMThe performer, playwright, composer and director Mike Iveson has preoccupied himself with what makes us human in his new sci-fi song cycle, at the Kitchen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMManhattan Theatre Club, New YorkThe multi-narrative work sees the cast – including Charlie Cox – shift through neurological oddities. But is the whole thing too cerebral for its own good…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:50PMJoe’s Pub at the Public Theater, New YorkCush Jumbo performs Jospehine Baker with such passion that it comes to seem less like homage and more like invocationErnest Hemingway called Joseph…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:13AMIn this Dan Moyer play, a man and a woman meet in a bowling alley bar and forge a relationship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMManhattan Theater Club, New YorkPlaywright Penelope Skinner offers a powerful portrait of an anguished woman fixating on the prospect of a baby as a source of affection, hope and escapePenel…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:16PMBrooklyn Academy of Music Harvey Theatre, New YorkThe 1998 production faltered, but David Hare’s play is back with Everett physically transformed to play the famed wit, sharp of mind but f…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PMVineyard Theatre, New YorkA tender unconventional new play explores the furore created by Sholem Asch’s play God of Vengeance, a flashpoint in Jewish and queer theatrical historyIn 1923, G…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PMSignature Theater, New YorkQuiara Alegría Hudes’ new play, which shares a director with Hamilton, has a fierce compassion for its characters and an ardent love for New York’s diversityI…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:02PMLunt-Fontanne Theater, New YorkHarvey Weinstein has spent millions trying to make a film about Peter Pan’s author fly on stage – but though the child stars shine, the music is leadenDo y…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 04:31PMThe actress, nominated for a Tony for playing an office manager and mother from Scranton, Pa., knew from an early age that she wanted to be onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07AMAcrobats, musicians and pole dancers infuse an air of surrealism into this neo-cirque show at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:10PMThe theater sensation of the decade scooped a record 16 Tony nominations. Here are 16 reasons Lin-Miranda Manuel’s hip-hop musical broke new groundTony awards: Hamilton musical makes histo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:50PMSecond Stage TheatrePop score and outcast protagonist hit all the right notes as Benj Pasek and Justin Paul production explores intense issues – and critiques internet culture Can a perfor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:18AMSt Ann’s Warehouse, BrooklynBenedict Andrews’ poignant new staging of Tennessee Williams’s play, imported from London, feels utterly contemporaryTennessee Williams’ play has travelle…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48PMThis play by Leah Nanako Winkler has a crowded stage and a frenetic rhythm, but heralds the arrival of a new voice in theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PM59E59 TheatersRichard Bean’s 1999 play blends social realism with sometimes cruel jokes, managing a distinctive voice despite sticking with a standard recipe Continue reading...
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:03PMIn the St. Ann’s Warehouse revival of the Tennessee Williams drama Mr. Foster plays Stanley Kowalski as “an ape: See. Grab. Take.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:22AMMusic Box Theatre, New York This show about the creation of the first jazz musical manages to be both entertaining and informative – but unfortunately not at the same timeIf Broadway has t…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:31PMAmerican Airlines Theater, New YorkJessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne and Michael Shannon are all superb as the family tearing one another apart in a dark production of Eugene O’Neill’s finest…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44PMBroadhurst Theatre, New YorkThis adaptation of the Natalie Babbitt book has flaws – the songs are repetitive and the set is chaotic – but the show’s spirit is ultimately touchingThe qu…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:38PMLyceum Theatre, New YorkJesse Tyler Ferguson’s turn as a put-upon restaurant worker has more elements than El Bulli’s taster menu, and just as many surprisesOn a nondescript morning a fe…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:52PMBrooks Atkinson Theatre, New YorkBased on the 2007 film, this show about a small-town diner waitress trapped in a loveless marriage is witty and bittersweet, yet its sexual politics leave a …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMGerald Schoenfeld Theatre, New YorkThe Wall Street maniac rides again in a musical rich in synth pop and buff bodies, but the meaning of Bret Easton Ellis’s original novel slides off the s…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:57PMOne character in this conventional drama, presented at the New Ohio Theater, is dead but not exactly gone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:26PMJessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher Jr. talk about their work for a coming Eugene O’Neill revival.
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