“Here Lies Love,” the exciting new poperetta conceived by the musician (and former Talking Head) David Byrne, sets a new standard for audience participation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA great actress and a fine, trenchant script are struggling to assert themselves at the Walter Kerr Theater, where Colm Toibin’s “Testament of Mary” opened on Monday night. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMDespite its violence, “Orphans,” a revival of Lyle Kessler’s 1985 play starring Alec Baldwin, Tom Sturridge and Ben Foster, has a soft touch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Assembled Parties” is an elegy to a breed of woman, a style of living and a genre of theater of which only vestiges remain in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMNathan Lane in “The Nance,” by Douglas Carter Beane, plays a character who shines for the camera and wilts offstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe blood runs warm in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s vibrant production of “Julius Caesar,” now at the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:55PM“Matilda the Musical,” a British import adapted from Roald Dahl’s 1988 novel, is a tale of empowerment told from the perspective of the most powerless group — little children. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA factory owner and a drag performer combine efforts in “Kinky Boots,” the new Broadway musical from Harvey Fierstein and Cyndi Lauper.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMDavid Harrower’s “Good With People” is running at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off Broadway series.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn the Nora Ephron play “Lucky Guy,” at the Broadhurst Theater, Tom Hanks makes his Broadway debut playing the newspaper columnist Mike McAlary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMBen Brantley on the basic moments of metamorphosis on stage that remind us of the magic of theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:27PMThe Encores! concert production of “It’s a Bird ... It’s a Plane ...It’s Superman” is given a pitch-perfect staging by John Rando at City Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:58PMThe new “Breakfast at Tiffany’s,” on Broadway at the Cort Theater, is more faithful to Truman Capote’s novella than the 1961 film was, yet far more melancholy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMPlaying a pop goddess in “The Bodyguard,” the new musical based on the 1992 movie that starred Whitney Houston and Kevin Costner, Heather Headley gives great diva.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PMJames Graham’s “This House” finds suspense in the wheelings and dealings of Parliament; Heather Headley shines as a pop goddess in “The Bodyguard”; and William Boyd tries his hand …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PM“The Curious Case of the Dog in the Night-Time,” a play adapted from the novel about a boy who appears to have Asperger’s syndrome, has opened at the Apollo Theater in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMYou can find Alan Bennett two ways on London stages: He’s a character in a double bill starring Alex Jennings (“Hymn” and “Cocktail Sticks”) and the author of “People,” starrin…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:29PM“Trelawny of the Wells” is a portrait of the Victorian era in theater; Betty Buckley brings her distinctive gifts to “Dear World,” a revival of a notorious ’60s flop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMRupert Everett stars as Oscar Wilde in “Judas Kiss” and Rowan Atkinson plays a teacher of English in “Quartermaine’s Terms.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMIn tour-de-force performances, James McAvoy is a war-traumatized Macbeth and Kate O’Flynn is a girl aching to flee her bleak home town in “Port.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:38PM“The Audience” is a sort of starched-bosomed nanny of a play, offering the artistic equivalent of nursery food and equally digestible history lessons.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMBen Brantley on “Money the Game Show” and a revival of “Privates on Parade,” starring Simon Russell Beale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMBen Brantley on Harold Pinter’s “Old Times” and an intimate revival of “Merrily We Roll Along.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28AM“Rodgers & Hammerstein’s Cinderella” wants to be reassuringly old-fashioned and refreshingly irreverent, sentimental and snarky, sincere and ironic, all at once.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMVanessa Redgrave plays a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in “The Revisionist,” written by her co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:57AMJohn Doyle’s version of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine’s “Passion” comes across as a pulsing collective fever dream.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMVanessa Redgrave plays a Polish survivor of the Holocaust in “The Revisionist,” written by her co-star, Jesse Eisenberg.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMEdie Falco stars in “The Madrid,” a new play by Liz Flahive about a kindergarten teacher who leaves her job and family without so much as a goodbye.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28PMA new production of "The Glass Menagerie" has a critic remembering other oft-seen plays that felt brand new thanks to a director's interpretation or unusual casting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:46AMWomen — from real life and fiction — will be the leading characters of several prominent Broadway productions (like “Ann,” “The Testament of Mary” and “Matilda the Musical”) …
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