
In "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 03:29PM[SHARE]In "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 05:25PM[SHARE]Dave 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 03:42PM[SHARE]Neal J. Freeman's horror comedy mashes up "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and vampire stories.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:34PM[SHARE]Jacques 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 07:57PM[SHARE]The ghost of Walt Whitman visits a depressed young man in Kristian O'Hare's play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:10PM[SHARE]D'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 Shakespeare Festi…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:30PM[SHARE]Almost 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. &nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:25PM[SHARE]James Burn and Ian Poitier's musical is set behind-the-scenes at a long-running television soap opera.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:01PM[SHARE]"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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]"Let It Be: A Celebration of the Music of the Beatles," at the St. James Theater, winds its way from the band's Liverpool days to the last album, and back again.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]The new musical is about an overweight Long Island teenager who dreams of becoming a renowned magician.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:52PM[SHARE]The Long Wharf Theater has produced a classic jukebox musical that includes audience participation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:04PM[SHARE]"Bill W. and Dr. Bob," a play about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, is produced by the Hazelden treatment center, but is 99 percent preachiness-free.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PM[SHARE]A "Midsummer's Night" production by the Classical Theater of Harlem in Marcus Garvey Park has piquant multicultural touches.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PM[SHARE]"Fallen Angels," the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's newest indoor production, explores the sexual double standard of a bygone era.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:53PM[SHARE]"It's Just Sex!," subtitled "A New Comedy About Lust & Trust," is a sweet but very lightweight comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:29PM[SHARE]In George Kelly's 1924 comedy "The Show-Off," now at the Westport Country Playhouse, a North Philadelphia family is terrified their daughter will marry the no-account Aubrey. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:56PM[SHARE]James Wesley's "Unbroken Circle," at St. Luke's Theater, stars Eve Plumb in a Texas comedy-drama with a whiff of "August: Osage County."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:39PM[SHARE]Theater Breaking Through Barriers presents six short plays by Bekah Brunstetter, Samuel D. Hunter, Neil LaBute and others featuring characters with disabilities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PM[SHARE]Noël Coward's witty leading man is the sole center of attention in Two River Theater Company's production of "Present Laughter."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:22PM[SHARE]"Becoming Dr. Ruth," at TheaterWorks Hartford, details the life, with its hardships, of the famous on-the-air therapist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:49PM[SHARE]The Schoolhouse Theater's lighthearted production of "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," which first opened on Broadway in 1969, brings back those days with a clear eye and a warm heart. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:31PM[SHARE]The Irish comedy "The Playboy of the Western World" is being staged at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater in Madison, through June 23.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:52PM[SHARE]Stephen Burdman's staging of Chekhov's "Seagull" in Central Park requires the audience to get up and stroll en masse to a new location several times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:11PM[SHARE]The celebrities that pop up throughout Rita Moreno's memoir include Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AM[SHARE]In "Marcellus Shale," townspeople of Rock Valley (site of fracking) try just to sit back and enjoy the monthly checks from the gas company, but that isn't always easy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PM[SHARE]Joshua Conkel's comedy "I Wanna Destroy You" involves a face-off with New York characters flaunting unappealing values and a sense of entitlement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]"Clybourne Park," at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, touches on race, genderism, classism and American xenophobia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:50PM[SHARE]A film star invades the dumpy studio of an acting coach who fails to recognize her in "Class," a one-act play by Charles Evered at Penguin Rep Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:56PM[SHARE]"Who's Your Daddy?" is Johnny O'Callaghan's solo show about adopting a Ugandan orphan.
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