Kenneth Branagh returns to Shakespeare in a fast-paced “Macbeth” at the Manchester International Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:17PMMikhail Baryshnikov and Willem Dafoe star in “The Old Woman,” an adaptation of short stories by Daniil Kharms.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PMImpressive new productions of “Othello” at the National Theater and “A Midsummer Night’s Dream” at Shakespeare’s Globe.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07AM“Mission Drift,” an American import at the National Theater, has plenty of show-biz spark as it makes the case that United States isn’t a nation of endless and reach and opportunity.&n…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMAs the title character in this revival of Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan” Daniel Radcliffe does something unusual for a star: he blends into the scenery and th…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:08PM“Charlie and the Chocolate Factory,” which opened on Tuesday night at Theater Royal, Drury Lane, is jammed with games and gadgets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMLucy Kirkwood’s hit play “Chimerica” at the Almeida Theater portrays the culture clash between a rising and a waning superpower (China and America) in a story that moves faster than a …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:08PM“The Two-Character Play,” a late-career work by Tennessee Williams, is revived Off Broadway, with Amanda Plummer and Brad Dourif in the title roles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:53PMThere is an air of erotic effortlessness in John Rando’s production of “On the Town” in Pittsfield, Mass.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PM“Roadkill” is an unsettling site-specific theater piece about sex trafficking that is staged on a bus and in a town house in Clinton Hill, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThere’s enough plot in Eric Rosen and Matt Sax’s “Venice,” the action-flooded new musical at the Public Theater, to fill a whole year in a Marvel comics series. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMSam Yates’s revival of J. B. Priestley’s “Cornelius,” a play about the Depression in Britain, explores an era that speaks to our times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMIn “Reasons to Be Happy,” the playwright Neil LaBute returns to the two couples who fought their way through his earlier “reasons to be pretty.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA spate of (mostly male) lack of clothing on stage this season is a reminder that being nude is not the same as being naked.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Giacomo Variations,” starring John Malkovich, pairs scenes from the memoirs of Giacomo Casanova with arias from Mozart’s operas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PM“Peter and the Starcatcher,” a prequel to the classic Peter Pan story, and “Murder Ballad,” about a dangerous love triangle, won’t make a natural double feature, but they are sibli…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe National Theater’s production of “This House,” a re-creation of British parliamentary politics in the 1970s, will be shown in a live screening at selected theaters on May 16. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMThe Fiasco Theater offers a stripped-down production of Stephen Sondheim’s “Into the Woods.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:08PM“The Memory Show,” a musical, reflects the tensions of caring for someone with Alzheimer’s disease — and being someone with Alzheimer’s disease.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Encores! production of Rodgers and Hart’s “On Your Toes” features the killer legs of Irina Dvorovenko of American Ballet Theater and Christine Baranski’s well-honed musical-comed…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PM“Matilda the Musical” offers children and adults hope in a reminder that everyone can rewrite their stories.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:29AMIn “Old-Fashioned Prostitutes (A True Romance),” a mind-bending play by Richard Foreman at the Public Theater, an aging man sifts through past encounters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Nikolai and the Others,” by Richard Nelson, brings Balanchine, the Stravinskys and other creative émigrés together for the weekend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMMike Bartlett’s “Bull,” directed by Clare Lizzimore at 59E59 Theaters, depicts desperate rivalry in an office where jobs are imperiled.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMDiane Paulus’s Broadway revival of “Pippin” has a big-top concept that features awe-inspiring gymnastics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMBountiful is a code name for the Fountain of Youth in Michael Wilson’s revival of Horton Foote’s “Trip to Bountiful,” at the Stephen Sondheim Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Here Lies Love,” the exciting new poperetta conceived by the musician (and former Talking Head) David Byrne, sets a new standard for audience participation.
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