The plays in New York theaters are full of meaning, and delivering a holiday message, hostile or tender, is as easy as buying a ticket.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:27PMBrian D’Arcy James and Kate Baldwin star in “Giant,” a musical adaptation of Edna Ferber’s multigenerational novel of a Texas family, with a soaring score by Michael John LaChiusa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA love triangle and a narrator, with songs and murder, take the stage in “Murder Ballad,” at Manhattan Theater Club.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAn engaged couple takes a last swing at the wild side while visiting an awards ceremony for cinematic pornography in the Broadway premiere of “The Performers.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07PM“Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike” turns out to be a loving rejection of pretty much everything Chekhov stands for in the popular imagination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Mies Julie,” adapted and directed by Yael Farber, transposes Strindberg’s 1888 tale of love, class and madness into contemporary South Africa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Ivanov,” Chekhov’s 1887 drama, features a melancholy title character played by Ethan Hawke in the Classic Stage Company production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Checkers,” a play by Douglas McGrath, Anthony LaPaglia is Richard Nixon, fighting to stay on the 1952 presidential ticket, and Kathryn Erbe plays his wife, Pat, as an innocent victim…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAs it did in 1977, the musical “Annie” arrives in a battered city and economically uncertain country, but this time with Katie Finneran as a Miss Hannigan who has glimmers of a conscienc…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Sorry,” the third in Richard Nelson’s to-the-moment explorations of the Apple family on the days of historical events, opens at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:10PMA new staging of “The Heiress,” adapted from a Henry James novella, stars Jessica Chastain in a bluntly drawn outline of the title character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn Jon Fosse’s drama “A Summer Day,” Karen Allen returns to the New York stage as a woman who can’t get over the disappearance of her husband long ago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Neutral Hero,” the playwright-director Richard Maxwell’s new play, is set in a small Midwestern town and depicts the coming-of-age journey of an anonymous, commonplace character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe frolicsome comedy “5 Lesbians Eating a Quiche” at SoHo Playhouse seems destined to attract a cult following.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:52PMBen Brantley on the scariest shows he's seen on stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:39PMIn “A Celebration of Harold Pinter,” performed by Julian Sands and directed by John Malkovich, the focus is on poetry, but the production also indirectly honors Pinter as an apostle of t…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Heresy,” at the Flea Theater, A. R. Gurney spins a story of a modern-day Christ figure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:45PMIn “Helen & Edgar,” his one-man show at Theater 80, Edgar Oliver tells of coming of age in Georgia with his sister and their mother, who would fretfully ask them, “I’m not like a gro…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMDouglas Hodge, the Tony-winning star of “La Cage aux Folles,” takes on the witty, civilized hero with the big nose in the latest Broadway revival of “Cyrano de Bergerac.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Harper Regan” Mary McCann stunningly plays a working wife and mother who runs away from her job and her family when she suddenly feels mortal shadows are closing in on her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Best of Everything” is based on Rona Jaffe’s 1958 novel of workplace sexual politics (and sexual sex).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMNeil LaBute and Marco Calvani in collaboration at La MaMa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:46PM“Grace,” Craig Wright’s tale of a Christian entrepreneur in Florida, stars Michael Shannon and Paul Rudd.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAt “Paris Commune” you might experience some of the dizzy exhilaration, liberation and exhaustion known by the Parisians who took over their city during this re-creation of a revolution.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:50PMEntrance applause can break the illusion, and the emotional momentum, that actors are working hard to sustain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:14PMA locked-down New York is the setting of Adam Rapp’s new play, “Through the Yellow Hour,” now at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Goodman Theater in Chicago has revived Tennessee Williams’s “Sweet Bird of Youth,” starring Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Habit,” an art-theater project from David Levine, takes place in a structure within the Essex Street Market; audiences look through its windows or walk in.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:21PMJake Gyllenhaal makes his New York stage debut as the wastrel uncle to an overweight, affection-starved teenage girl in Nick Payne’s “If There Is I Haven’t Found It Yet.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMEvery so often - and more frequently on stage than in film - the interiority of artistic creation is translated into a visible, physical language that raises goose bumps.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:23PM“Job,” Thomas Bradshaw’s latest play, hews close to the Bible and eagerly dives into forbidden subject matter.
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