Jessica Lange, Gabriel Byrne, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher Jr. talk about their work for a coming Eugene O’Neill revival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:38AMIn the Pearl Theater Company’s adaptation of Georges Feydeau’s farce “Le Dindon,” a wife swears that she will cheat on her husband only if he betrays her first.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20PMThe Public Theater’s Mobile Unit presents this 90-minute version of the tragedy, with Sheldon Best and Ayana Workman as the star-cross’d lovers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:21PMManhattan Theatre ClubWith elements of a thriller and absurdist comedy, the play takes us into the experience of a man losing his grip – though some very English slang ranklesAndré (Frank…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:25PMThe solo show, by Justin Sayre, finds the writer and actor offering up his passionate soul.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:55PMPeter Jay Sharp Theatre at Playwrights Horizons, New YorkAnne Washburn’s constellation-referencing play provides moments to savor but ultimately leaves audiences hoping for what might have…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:44PMThe Hollywood actors join forces on a Broadway stage in this abuse-revenge drama. They discuss coping with the play’s shattering themes eight times a weekActors Jeff Daniels and Michelle W…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:16PMThis new musical from the Prospect Theater Company is about the early modern composer Carlo Gesualdo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:21PMWith his troubled air and tousled hair, the actor has made his name with anguished characters – from Hamlet to Danny in London Spy. Now on Broadway in The Crucible, he talks about coming o…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:04AMIn A. Rey Pamatmat’s play at Here, two Filipino families living in New York try to master Monopoly, mah-jongg, affection, aversion and assimilation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:01PMIvo van Hove’s production – set in a gloomy classroom and starring Ben Whishaw and Saoirse Ronan – doesn’t reach the highs of his version of A View from the Bridge and feels overly r…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 09:34AMWith Hungry, the first in a planned election-year trilogy opening at New York’s Public Theater, Trump’s rise is a dubious gift: ‘I’m a citizen before I’m a writer’The plot of Hun…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:50AMActors in William Burke’s play describe futile searches for authenticity and originality, while dangling in a rope net.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMMusical theater had a bumper year in 2015, with breakout hits such as Hamilton drawing in new crowds and renewed excitement. But is this really a new dawn or has the hype clouded the much mo…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 01:32PMCort Theatre, New YorkDespite its impressive cast and soundtrack, Steve Martin’s tale of an editor in the American south who takes a young writer under her wing lacks Broadway lustreFinall…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:42PMIn this adaptation of Bret Easton Ellis’s novel, Mr. Walker is working out and absorbing his character, a smooth banker who sidelines as a killer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:09AMStudio 54, New YorkThis joy of this musical, about two warring shop workers unwittingly conducting an epistolary romance, is how the songs deepen and contradict the conversationHungarian pas…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:36PMAtlantic Theatre Company, New YorkKenneth Lonergan once again explores the hypocrisy of likable characters in a play starring Timothy Olypahant that veers between farce, comedy and dramaStri…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:26PMThis play at the New Victory Theater, set during World War II, shows the heroism of these black Army pilots and the discrimination they faced back home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22PMPublic Theatre, New YorkThough the plot falters, this is an important show in its conviction that transgender people’s social and romantic lives are as worthy of interest and empathy than …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:16PMClurman Theater, New York, NYBased on a real-life case of a boy raised as a girl after a dire surgical mishap, this play is sensitively acted but could go deeper into the issuesIs biology de…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:01PMBelasco Theater, New YorkA distressing, nuanced two-hander about the dangerous influence and magnetism of traumatic events, this is the most lacerating play on BroadwayIt is hard to imagine …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMThe performer’s work, which is having an encore run at 3LD Art & Technology Center, is continually being refined.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20AMNederlander Theatre, New YorkSet on a floating casino hit by an earthquake (among other things), this knowingly awful musical seems more suited to a bar than BroadwayWho among us has not lon…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:20AMWestside Theater, New YorkNassim Soleimanpour’s play has a different performer every night, each handed the script upon arriving onstage. Lane took up the challenge, and his performance ha…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27AMNew York Theatre Workshop, New York, New YorkBeginning with the discovery of performance enhancing drugs in a locker-room, this play comes to the boil – and the lead actor deserves a medal…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMPlaywrights Horizons, New YorkThe tensions between assimilation and honoring ancestry and tradition provide the subject for Danai Gurira’s inconsistent but engaging playDanai Gurira’s of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:51AMUntitled Theater Company No. 61 presents an adaptation of the first novel in Paul Auster’s enigmatic “New York Trilogy.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:27PMThe minutiae of the pressures and games among female teachers living in close quarters at a boarding school are revealed in this Irish play from 1938.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMPolonsky Shakespeare Center, New YorkTrevor Nunn turns one of Shakespeare’s least-loved plays into something sumptuous and spectacular – though the seafaring plot remains ridiculousPeric…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:08AMBooth Theater, New YorkThe actor does not entirely inhabit the part of Erie, a melancholy gambler, in this lavish Michael Grandage production of a minor Eugene O’Neill workWhat small bliss…
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