Sophisticated stagecraft and the contributions of artists with 21st-century sensibilities have worked their magic on some dangerous midcentury mores.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMDeb Margolin talks about cancer, motherhood and dull parties in her solo show at the Cherry Lane Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PMMs. Collier creates six vivid, droll characters in a polished production at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PMWith “Brownsville Song,” the New Haven venue seeks to draw in people who might feel a connection to the tale of a teenager shot by a gang member.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:44PMThis new play by David Brian Colbert retraces a man’s life through the lies he told along the way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:05PMIn his solo show at the SoHo Playhouse, Baba Brinkman considers the need for, and consequences of, religious belief.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMMoney and race issues simmer amid the turmoil in Danai Gurira’s latest play, “Familiar,” in New Haven.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03AMNew York Shakespeare Exchange is presenting “Titus Andronicus,” a gory tragedy set in ancient Rome, at Here.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:13PMWith “Private Lives,” now in Hartford, Noël Coward wrote about ex-spouses who are reminded how the “ex-” got there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:49PMSam Harris stars in “Ham: A Musical Memoir,” based on his book “Ham: Slices of a Life,” at Theater 511 at Ars Nova.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:29PMDael Orlandersmith’s solo show, “Forever,” at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, tells the story of her broken upbringing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:21PMIn his solo show, “My Son the Waiter: A Jewish Tragedy,” the comedian Brad Zimmerman draws on his long climb to the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:39PMIn “Picasso at the Lapin Agile,” his play now at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Steve Martin finds a balance of silliness and seriousness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PMThe Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater’s “A Christmas Carol, Oy! Hanukkah, Merry Kwanzaa” is essentially Dickens’s original tale, with a few dashes of multiculturalism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PMDrag queens are among the cast of characters in “Fabulous! The Queen of the New Musical Comedies,” a play set on a cruise ship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:26PMThe “Radio City Christmas Spectacular” returns with familiar songs and some modern touches.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMRachel Tucker talks about her role in “The Last Ship,” and about growing up in Belfast, Northern Ireland.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMIn “Livin’ la Vida Imelda,” Carlos Celdran delves into many corners of Imelda Marcos’s life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:05PMIn ‘Annapurna,’ by Sharr White, a middle-aged American named Ulysses is frying sausages in his trailer and sounding like a cowboy, not a former English professor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PM“Our Town” and “Hamlet,” two of the English language’s most popular and most frequently performed dramas, are both currently being staged in Connecticut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM“The God Game,” produced by Hudson Stage, considers whether answering a call to higher public office means betraying private beliefs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:26PMStormy weather for one family in “Extreme Whether,” a coproduction of Theater Three Collaborative and Theater for the New City.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PMThe Irish Repertory Theater presents “Port Authority,” Conor McPherson’s award-winning play about three troubled men, at the DR2 Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:15PMIn “Intimate Apparel,” at the Westport Country Playhouse, intricate plotting carries a lonely African-American across the boundaries of color and class.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PMTony Kushner’s landmark AIDS drama “has difficult subject matter,” says Sean Harris, its director at Playhouse on Park, in West Hartford. “But it’s an important story.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:00AMAlex Roe has revived “Icebound,” which won the 1923 Pulitzer Prize for drama, at the Metropolitan Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMIn Kim Davies’s “Smoke,” two strangers engage in erotic power games in a kitchen at an uptown sex party.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:30PM“Things We Do for Love,” which was first produced in Britain in 1997, is at the Westport Country Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:28PMIn the comic “Barceló con Hielo,” a man from the Dominican Republic awaiting surgery misses everything about home except the corruption.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMDavis McCallum, the new artistic director of the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, has been immersing himself in the company and its work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:35PMAudiences may no longer be dancing in the aisles, but “Mamma Mia!” is still a joy 13 years later.
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