Women — 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”) …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AM“Really Really,” by Paul Downs Colaizzo, looks at goal-oriented lives adrift on a college campus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMRomeo Castellucci’s “On the Concept of the Face, Regarding the Son of God” contemplates the end of a human life with visceral detail.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMIn the gorgeous new production of “The Glass Menagerie” at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., something both momentous and commonplace has happened.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:40PM“All in the Timing,” a series of sketches by David Ives, focuses on language and time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Clive,” by Jonathan Marc Sherman, Ethan Hawke plays the title character and also directs the New Group production of an update of Brecht’s “Baal.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20AMBen Brantley on what it was like to be called onstage as an extra in "The Suit."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:23AMThe topic at hand in “Women of Will” is the burning issue of pants versus dresses, which assumes genuine urgency.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PM“Fiorello!,” the Pulitzer Prize- and Tony-winning 1959 musical, opened the 20th anniversary season of Encores! musicals in concert.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:16PMMartin Moran’s one-man show “All the Rage” is a map of self-discovery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMSome theater companies performing Off Broadway are using disabled actors, sometimes deliberately making a point of their disabilities
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:37PMLyle Kessler’s “Collision,” presented by the Amoralists troupe, follows a college student’s efforts to enlist others in a plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PM“The Suit,” at the Harvey Theater, retells a story about adultery and pitiless punishment by the South African writer Can Themba.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:45PMThe Nalagaat Theater, which is made up of performers who are both deaf and blind, offers an optional dinner in their performance piece “Not by Bread Alone.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:43PMScarlett Johansson confirms her promise as a stage actress of imposing presence in the Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’s “Cat on a Hot Tin Roof,” his Pulitzer Prize-winning 1955…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMBelarus Free Theater offers a scathing mosaic of its home city with “Minsk, 2011,” at the Under the Radar festival at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PM“Seagull (Thinking of you)” is a play that blurs boundaries: between actors and their roles, male and female, fiction and reality, past and present, parody and sincerity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PM“Midsummer,” written and directed by David Greig, is a rom-com in theatrical form centering on a long, wild weekend in Edinburgh complete with theft, bondage and drinking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PM“I, Malvolio,” a one-man show by Tim Crouch (with a little audience assistance), takes a “Twelfth Night” character out of context for the fun of it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:45PM“Opus No. 7,” from the Dmitry Krymov Lab of Moscow, probes memory, ancestors, Mother Russia and the case of Dmitri Shostakovich, at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:52PMPhysical attractiveness is a running theme in the Roundabout Theater Company’s Broadway revival of “Picnic,” William Inge’s 1953 drama, at the American Airlines Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Ganesh Versus the Third Reich,” in which that Hindu deity seeks to redeem the ancient swastika symbol from the Nazis, raises questions about the nature and abuses of power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:40PMA critic kept his promise not to see theater for several weeks at the end of the year, but favorite stage performers crept into his life thanks to their roles on film and television.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:13PMRadiohole’s “Inflatable Frankenstein” is all about the difficulties of the act of creation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PMPlays that woke up audiences this year included “Uncle Vanya,” “Mies Julie,” “Once” and “Sorry.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PMIn the new revival of David Mamet’s “Glengarry Glen Ross,” starring Al Pacino,
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMPatti LuPone and Debra Winger star in David Mamet’s “Anarchist,” a heavily embroidered slip of a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Then She Fell” is an immersive theater experience at a former hospital that incorporates scenes and characters from Lewis Carroll’s writing and life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:59PMNorbert Leo Butz and Katier Holms star as siblings in Theresa Rebeck’s family drama “Dead Accounts.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMNew York stages have recently been crowded with productions of Chekhov.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMThe plays in New York theaters are full of meaning, and delivering a holiday message, hostile or tender, is as easy as buying a ticket.
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