“Forbidden Broadway Comes Out Swinging!,” the latest incarnation of the long-running satirical revue, addresses signs of a theater season notably lacking in fresh material.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PM“An Octoroon,” by the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is an exhilarating, booby-trapped production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Here Lies Love,” the poperetta conceived by David Byrne about the rise and fall of Ferdinand and Imelda Marcos, has returned to the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA young Spalding Gray appears in “The Wooster Group’s Rumstick Road,” which explores his mother’s suicide.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMIn Anthony Giardina’s “The City of Conversation,” at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, Jan Maxwell portrays a Washington political hostess.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:49PMThe Roundabout’s production of “Cabaret” is back at Studio 54 — now with Michelle Williams as Sally Bowles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Casa Valentina,” written by Harvey Fierstein, tells of cross-dressing men who frequent a Catskills resort that caters to them in the early 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Hedwig and the Angry Inch,” about a transgendered performer with issues, stars Neil Patrick Harris in the title role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMDaniel Radcliffe stars in Michael Grandage’s splendid production of Martin McDonagh’s dark comedy “The Cripple of Inishmaan.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Act One” at Lincoln Center stars Tony Shalhoub and Santino Fontana and Matthew Schechter as the theater artisan Moss Hart, from his Bronx childhood to Broadway glory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMJames Franco and Chris O’Dowd both make Broadway debuts in the respectable, respectful and generally inert revival of John Steinbeck’s “Of Mice and Men.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Library,” the director Steven Soderbergh’s maiden outing on the New York stage, opened on Tuesday at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn Richard Maxwell’s “Isolde,” plans by a contractor and an actress to build the perfect vacation home become complicated by a love triangle as primal instincts rise to the surface.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PM“Bullets Over Broadway: The Musical,” inspired buy Woody Allen’s 1994 film of the same title, is instructive for those determined to translate screen chemistry into crowd-wowing live t…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMStarring Denzel Washington, “A Raisin in the Sun” at the Ethel Barrymore Theater is a disarmingly relaxed revival, brimming with empathy for its flawed characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Encores! production of “The Most Happy Fella,” led by Shuler Hensley and Laura Benanti, is an unabashed hymn of hope to fresh starts and quickened feelings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:17PMin honor of Irma’s 30th anniversary, Red Bull Theater is presenting this fractured classic in a production directed by Everett Quinton, who starred (with Ludlam) in the original. A promisi…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31AMRed Bull Theater is presenting Charles Ludlam’s “The Mystery of Irma Vep: A Penny Dreadful” in a production directed by Everett Quinton.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AM“Heathers: The Musical” recalls an era when killing off the leaders of a high school’s reigning clique could still seem like a joke.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:23AMLolita Chakrabarti’s “Red Velvet” reflects on the evening in 1833 when London theatergoers first saw a black actor play Othello.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:23AMNew York City has never looked cleaner than it does in “If/Then,” the gleaming drawing board of a musical that opened on Broadway, starring the shiny-voiced Idina Menzel. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMStories from the past, brought to life by veteran actresses, animate the nostalgic “I Remember Mama” at the Gym at Judson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Theater for a New Audience production of “King Lear,” directed by Arin Arbus, brings a quieter-than-normal touch to Shakespeare’s tale of chaos in a kingdom and a family. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Uriel Acosta: I Want That Man!,” at Target Margin Theater, draws on past productions of this play inspired by the life of a 17th-century Jewish philosopher and skeptic. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:19PMIn Terrence McNally’s new play, “Mothers and Sons,” Tyne Daly’s character has an uncomfortable reunion with Frederick Weller’s, who was her son’s lover.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Tales From Red Vienna,” David Grimm’s new play, set in 1920 Austria, throws together a widowed gentlewoman and a brash Hungarian journalist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe performance artists Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser unfold a bona fide X-rated fairy tale in “Beauty and the Beast,” at the Abrons Arts Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMIn “Appropriate,” the playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins brings together dissatisfied relatives for one last angry feast of guilt and recrimination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Rocky,” the mostly torpid new musical at the Winter Garden Theater, counts on its audience’s residual affection for the film on which it is based.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Stockholm,” by Bryony Lavery, at 59E59 Theaters, unmasks a couple’s brittle stylishness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMTarell Alvin McCraney’s squishy, misbegotten “Antony and Cleopatra” resets Shakespeare’s tragedy on the island of Hispaniola during the reign of the French.
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