Patrick Barlow’s adaptation of “A Christmas Carol” has fashioned a recognizable Scrooge, a poisoned man who seems sadly right at home in 2013.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:53PM“Lies My Father Told Me,” a musical adapted from a film of the same name, is a coming-of-age story of a Jewish boy in Montreal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMIn “Every Day a Visitor,” the residents of a retirement home decide to play an all-encompassing game, and in certain ways, it saves their lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMKeith Josef Adkins’s “The Last Saint on Sugar Hill” is having its New York premiere at the National Black Theater in Harlem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07PMIn “4000 Miles” at Pace University, the drama is built around a grandson’s visit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PM“The Underpants,” by Steve Martin, adapted from Carl Sternheim, explores gender politics in 1910 Düsseldorf.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMStarring as Eugene O’Neill in “And Give Us the Shadows” at the Schoolhouse Theater, Jerry Lanning collapsed in the middle of performing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PM“Jericho,” Jack Canfora’s examination of a family after Sept. 11, explores the nature of grief, cultural identity and fraught relationships.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:19PMIn “Kansas City Swing,” by Trey Ellis and Ricardo Khan, Satchel Paige, the legendary Negro Leagues pitcher, sees his star being eclipsed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PM“Room Service,” now at the Westport Country Playhouse, is more subtle on the stage than in the Marx Brothers film.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01PM“Tamar of the River,” a musical by Marisa Michelson and Joshua H. Cohen, uses characters from a story in Genesis to send a message about peace.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:08PM“Gettin’ the Band Back Together,” now at the George Street Playhouse, is a playful, mildly irreverent musical that celebrates the resurrection of a high school garage band. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:31PMIn this “Waiting for Godot,” translated into Yiddish, Vladimir and Estragon represent Holocaust survivors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:44PM“The Farm,” a darkly serious one-act play now at the Penguin Repertory Theater, pits a C.I.A. agent against an agency therapist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:23PMIn “A Streetcar Named Desire” at the Yale Repertory Theater, secondary characters stand out in a play normally dominated by the two central players.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:37PM“I Can See Clearly Now” is Sonya Kelly’s memoir of growing up extremely nearsighted.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “The Beautiful Dark,” Erik Gernand has created complicated, recognizable people who are, like most of us, victims of their own flaws.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:23PMThe National Asian American Theater production of Clifford Odets’s “Awake and Sing!” easily make its point that human realities trump ethnicity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:21PMIn “Oblivion,” Carly Mensch, a writer known for her work on cable television, asks her audience to consider bigotry from a different perspective.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:29PMIn “Still Jewish After All These Years,” at Stage 72, Avi Hoffman offers songs and life lessons from decades in the Yiddish theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMDave Hanson’s play is about two understudies waiting for their chance to go on in Samuel Beckett’s famed “Waiting for Godot.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMNeal J. Freeman’s horror comedy mashes up “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” and vampire stories.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:34PMJacques Deval’s 1933 play about displaced Russian nobility is a European screwball comedy, but it also is much more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:57PMThe ghost of Walt Whitman visits a depressed young man in Kristian O’Hare’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:10PMD’Artagnan and his friends, united as ever, fight for honor and a comically played Louis XIII in Ken Ludwig’s adaptation of “The Three Musketeers,” now at the Hudson Valley Shakespea…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:30PMAlmost half a century after his death, Joe Orton, who would be 80 now, has the power to shock even worldly 21st-century theatergoers. His “Loot” is at the Westport County Playhouse. …
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01PM“Me and Jezebel,” at the Snapple Theater Center, is based on Elizabeth Fuller’s memoir of a time in 1985 when Bette Davis came to her home to stay and stay and stay. &…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe new musical is about an overweight Long Island teenager who dreams of becoming a renowned magician.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:52PMThe Long Wharf Theater has produced a classic jukebox musical that includes audience participation.
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