A Lower East Side theater celebrates its centenary with an artistic director, Jay Wegman, who aims to shock and unsettle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:27PMThis solo show at BAM Fisher conjures a variety of global journeys, many seemingly autobiographical and fraught with some small peril.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:17PMA hip-hop musical about the founding father didn’t sound like a natural fit for Broadway’s traditionally more conservative crowd, but Lin-Manuel Miranda’s mix of rap and Sondheim could…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:45PMThis musical adaptation of a 1912 novel is rooted in the correspondence between a girl and a man who pays for her college education..
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PMThe choreographer and visual artist are staging an installation at the New Museum inspired by Genet’s chilling 1947 play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:25PMAdrienne Truscott’s one-woman show, which is both chirpy and blistering, rewards and invites a strong drink.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:25PMBrooks Atkinson Theatre, New YorkDeaf West Theatre’s production of Frank Wedekind’s play isn’t the radical reimagining it’s billed as but has something to say about modern communicat…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:30AMHarold Chapin’s work, directed by Jonathan Bank, is a comedy of marital ethics set in England.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:10PMMr. Karam, who specializes in agonizing comedies that are funnier than their subjects would indicate, has a new play, “The Humans,” that can also be viewed as a horror story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:56PMThis Mark Dendy cabaret explores the story of Ms. Manning, formerly Bradley Manning, who is serving a prison term for leaking documents.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:44PMMJ Kaufman’s play looks at four would-be astronauts applying for a one-way trip to Mars.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36AMPlaywrights Horizons, New YorkA play about a charismatic pastor who has had a revelation that upsets his congregation asks difficult questions about belief and behaviour in AmericaWhether or…
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:38PMMr. McGrath, a longtime character actor in theater, has won praise for his caricature-free portrayal of Tracy in Matthew Lopez’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:16PMAl Hirschfeld theatre, New YorkMost New Yorkers would hesitate to don the dazzling footwear displayed in the new Broadway musical Kinky Boots. When you live in a city of potholes, sloping si…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25PMIn Gabrielle Reisman’s play, three sisters sort through their dead father’s belongings in search of a will.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:49PMInspired by a Jean Genet novel, this misbegotten mash-up includes nudity, cross-dressing and a bathroom break.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:02PMHer experimental play Mr Burns was described as ‘three hours of utter hell’ by one critic – but Washburn has been hailed as one of the most innovative playwrights aroundThe playwright …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:25AMWoodshed Collective’s theatrical scavenger hunt sends participants racing from one location to the next in Lower Manhattan, often at a jog, sometimes in a moving vehicle.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:22AMMCC Theater, New YorkIt’s charming, but this play about an initially reluctant drag queen ducks the complicated questions – though the musical numbers are dynamiteTo thine own self be tr…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 11:27PMThe quirky theater company Elevator Repair Service is staging a play by Sibyl Kempson, who is known for her offbeat scripts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:56PMThe German writer Marius von Mayenburg’s play about troubled adolescent siblings is at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMMs. Engel, best known for Georgette on the 1970s sitcom, returns to the stage in the play “John,” which features her in her first leading role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMFrench whimsy, British royals and Liberian rebels vie for attention with adaptations of Misery and a Confederacy of Dunces and a Lloyd Webber musicalThe Berkeley Repertory Theatre trades nor…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 07:31AMThis play, set five years after the Rwanda genocide, examines the slipperiness of truth, the difficulty of ever determining what happened and why.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34AMThe new Broadway season includes no new plays by women or writers of color, and last season less than a quarter of plays produced in America were by women. While the internet is finally begi…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:35AMThe writer has several plays preparing for production, including “Photograph 51,” which will star Nicole Kidman in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24AMIn Mr. Posner’s first New York production, the melancholy comedy “Judy,” set in the year 2040, the theater no longer exists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMThe New York International Fringe Festival, now in full swing, features glimmers of talent and skill amid the amateurism and malfunctioning air-conditioners.
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