A 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.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37AMA handful of works deal with the many questions of nourishment and nurture. How we feed. How we are fed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37AMThis three-actor play initiates a dialogue with Georg Büchner’s “Woyzeck,” examining men’s violence against women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PMDavid Strathairn is remarkable in a solo show about Jan Karski, who was profoundly changed by what he witnessed during World War II.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34PMThe comedian Kate Berlant’s latest experiment, directed by Bo Burnham at the Connelly Theater, positions her as an actress with a semi-traumatic origin story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:07PMThe Broadway legend, who has won more Tony awards than any other performer, on what ‘the American songbook’ means to her “I’m trying to get to the truth of why I’m singing this son…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37PMDaniel K. Isaac’s stylistically daring play at La MaMa doesn’t quite fulfill its promise, but it suggests the playwright has more stories to tell.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMThis shimmering Shakespeare adaptation at the Delacorte Theater retains the outline of the original, while making space for songs. You don’t have to sing along, though you may want to.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThe Tony-winning Broadway actor has made a career playing powerful women. Her latest is a drug queenpin inspired by 50 Cent’s mother in the newest “Power” series on Starz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07AMThe new Elton John-Shaina Taub musical, based on the popular film about a fashion-world ingénue and her demanding boss, isn’t yet ready-to-wear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMThemes of change, death and rebirth abound in this peculiar production, a triumph of style and low-budget ingenuity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMAnne Washburn’s 2012 play about a post-pandemic society reckoning with loss has not aged at all, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PMThe Encores! revival of this fairy-tale musical, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, arrives on Broadway with its humor, wonder and humanity intact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMPiety is just a pose in Ashley Tata’s gender-swapped production of Molière’s tragicomedy at Bard’s SummerScape festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMA new comedy by Steph Del Rosso starts as a satire of conservatives, then takes aim at progressives. Too bad the jokes barely cut either side.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMOur writer checked out two very different experiences in New York. In Netflix’s TV re-creation, you fight Demogorgons. In “Cascando,” you walk off your existential angst.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMWith war as a backdrop, Gab Reisman’s lively comedy is content to hang out with a motley group of women at the dawn of modern capitalism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03AMAdapted from a 13th-century drama, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig’s play is part ghost story, murder mystery and family melodrama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMAtlantic Theater, New York The comic’s memoir, about trauma and incontinence, lands on stage after a long delay with wit, depth and fart jokes A musical about trauma, fart jokes and incont…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 12:33AMThe musical is Somi Kakoma’s thank-you note, written across generations, to the South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMMara Vélez Meléndez’s “Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members” ferociously explores the intersection of the personal and the political.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMA historical drama revisits a 19th-century scheme in which Irish girls of “good character” were encouraged to immigrate to Australia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:37PMThis gentle musical, a hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, combines Scottish folklore and live looping technology.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PMTarget Margin Theater stages an enchanting riff on “One Thousand and One Nights” inside an old Brooklyn garage. Tea and pastries included, blankets welcome.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMLucas Hnath’s play brought the invaluable Off Broadway performer her first Tony Award nomination.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMTwenty-five years after it was a hit Off Broadway, the playwright’s Pulitzer Prize-winning work debuted on Broadway this season.
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