Broadway’s slapstick comedy “Peter Pan Goes Wrong” is full of daring sequences. What does it take? Countless rehearsals (and bruises).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMLunt-Fontanne Theatre, New York Josh Groban and Annaleigh Ashford play Stephen Sondheim’s murderous Victorian couple in a bold and barnstorming take Despite having worn a beard for much of…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:48AMAttention to culinary detail is the best part of this heavily seasoned family drama by Christin Eve Cato at the WP Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMKeith Bunin’s gentle, rueful play at Lincoln Center’s Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater settles down among six passengers traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00PMAt La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMAn affectionate elegy to a Greenwich Village restaurant, Neil Pepe’s production at Atlantic Theater orders everything on the menu.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMThe actor stars in this new series as a slickster hawking time-shares on the moon. Now in his 50s, Crudup is getting some of the best roles of his career.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMThe first major New York revival of “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window,” Lorraine Hansberry’s 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long?
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:02PMThe Under the Radar festival kicks off with an allegory about climate destruction by the Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PMLiterary influences suffuse this year’s festival of avant-garde performance. Artists from six shows share the stories that inspired them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:47PMA play first performed in a tavern in 1665 survives with its title, and the court case it precipitated, intact — but nothing else.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PM“Downstate” asks its performers to portray men who have done the unimaginable. Three of the play’s actors discuss what it takes to meet that challenge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMNew York Theatre Workshop, New York The infamous 1981 disaster has returned off-Broadway with help from Jonathan Groff and Daniel Radcliffe It is a paradox of human existence that while we e…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:30PMSam S Shubert Theatre, New York Attempts to modernise the gender politics of the classic comedy struggle but there are some moments that deliver enough razzle-dazzle There are several chase …
SOURCE: The Guardian at 03:42AMEarly 20th-century San Francisco and Guangdong, China, overlap in Lloyd Suh’s artful examination of the emotional price of immigration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMThough smaller and less glitzy than extravaganzas of years past, “Dream Big” is a brisk, welcoming, back-to-basics experience brimming with pizazz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMJefferson Mays stars in a Broadway adaptation of the Dickens classic, a one-man production that was originally live-captured for streaming.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMWill Arbery’s play explores the existential dread filling the minds of an Illinois city’s public employees with the subtlety of a polar vortex.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMThe Irish actor’s one-man show on Broadway delves into painful and playful memories alike. He even imitates the oddballs of his Dublin boyhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:55PMNot quite a comedy and not quite a thriller, Kate Tarker’s play is an antic study of two women preparing for a game (or possibly an attack).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PMHow a real-life pro-Nazi summer camp on Long Island inspired a “deeply American play” about seduction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMThe playwright Jiehae Park’s sly and polished adaptation of “Macbeth” transports the characters from the Scottish heath to the halls of a Midwestern high school.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:19PMAmerican Airlines Theatre, New York A diverse re-envisioning of the 1969 historical musical offers up some great opportunities for a game cast but struggles to justify its existence The firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PMA new play by Diane Davis at the New Ohio Theater addresses the topic head-on, but clumsily, our critic writes.
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SOURCE: The Guardian at 08:30PMElevator Repair Service, the experimental theater company, brings to life the 1965 debate between James Baldwin and William F. Buckley Jr.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PMA Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman” has a Black lead for the first time, giving Pierce a chance to step into a role he was “born to play.”
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