Friday, January 17, 2020
The Public Theater’s festival has included 12 featured offerings, four cabaret acts and six pieces of developmental work. Here’s what our critics saw.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMWednesday, January 15, 2020
Ideally cast as a plain-spoken woman made of quiet steel, she acts the way Elizabeth Strout writes in this compelling adaptation of the 2016 novel.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PMSunday, January 12, 2020
A jazz memoirist, a Palestinian rocketeer and Mexican myths set to music kick off the Public Theater’s annual festival of adventurous work from across the globe.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMFriday, January 10, 2020
In this stark, eloquent new play, three women reflect on what remains in the aftermath of an American civil war.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMWednesday, January 8, 2020
In Martin Crimp’s time-bending version of the Rostand “Cyrano de Bergerac,” directed by Jamie Lloyd, people make love and war through glorious language.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMMonday, January 6, 2020
New takes on beloved works by Elena Ferrante, Anton Chekhov and Neil Gaiman testify to the pleasures and perils of adaptation.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMThursday, January 2, 2020
An electrifying revival, starring a heartbreaking Wendell Pierce, reimagines Willy Loman as a black man in a white man’s world.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMFriday, December 27, 2019
A brassy celebration of optimism and urbanity, “Put on Your Sunday Clothes” from “Hello, Dolly!” can still stir the emotions.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMMonday, December 16, 2019
This tuneful adaptation of John Carney’s movie, about the saving grace of pop music in 1980s Dublin, hasn’t quite found its ideal voice.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMMonday, December 9, 2019
Stephen Adly Guirgis’s bumpy, vibrant and expansive comic drama about a women’s homeless shelter features a cast of 18 (or 19, counting the goat).
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMWednesday, December 4, 2019
Inua Ellams’s energizing, globe-traveling play considers the barber’s chair as the black man’s confessional.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:42PMTuesday, December 3, 2019
Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMTuesday, November 26, 2019
In retooling his first produced work, Tony Kushner himself appears as a character in this lumbering portrait of endangered artists in Nazi Berlin.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:24AMMonday, November 25, 2019
The Signature Theater’s compassionate revival of Horton Foote’s 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes a slow route to devastation.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 12:03AMWednesday, November 20, 2019
This lively reimagining of Dickens’s yuletide perennial, written by Jack Thorne, returns the story’s social conscience to center stage.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMSunday, November 17, 2019
Breadth doesn’t always equal depth in Matthew Lopez’s supersize, vividly painted portrait of gay life in the 21st century, featuring E.M. Forster as a spirit guide.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMMonday, November 11, 2019
The Signature Theater revival of Anna Deavere Smith’s drama about the Crown Heights race riots confirms this play’s status as an enduring work of art.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMSunday, November 10, 2019
Garry Hynes’s visually hypnotic interpretation of the tale of the crookback who would be king sees medieval England as a cold slaughterhouse.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMKristin Chenoweth and Ian McKellen demonstrate the increasingly popular art of turning theater palaces into cozy parlors for confabs with fans.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMThursday, November 7, 2019
The Emmy-winning “Game of Thrones” star shows off his abundant charisma in a lachrymose musical adaptation of Rostand’s classic.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMMonday, October 28, 2019
In this delicately wrought portrait of a dying choreographer and her family, Richard Nelson’s play considers the redemptive powers of art in fractious times.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMSunday, October 27, 2019
This convoluted play chronicles the breakdown of a conflicted, displaced East African woman in the cosmopolitan West.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThursday, October 24, 2019
Tina Satter’s remarkable docudrama recreates the bizarrely banal interrogation that led to the arrest of the intelligence contractor Reality Winner.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 08:03AMTuesday, October 22, 2019
The director Leah C. Gardiner delivers a warm and inspiriting revival of the landmark poetic drama, with a gloriously interdependent cast.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PMMonday, October 21, 2019
Gerard Alessandrini’s franchise was looking as long in the tooth as the shows it aimed to skewer. A new edition brings it back to hilarious life.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMSunday, October 20, 2019
This jubilant production, choreographed by Annie-B Parson, transforms an icon of alienation into a cosmically cozy senior statesman.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:48PMThursday, October 17, 2019
Michael Mayer’s revitalizing revival of this genially gruesome classic becomes a sly morality tale for the age of universal celebrity.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMTuesday, October 15, 2019
Trip Cullman’s unmoored production of this atypical comedy from Tennessee Williams presents sexual attraction as a raging force of nature.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:54PMSunday, October 13, 2019
This head-tripping play from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, inspired by Euripides’ “The Bacchae,” allows women past and present to find catharsis in one truly wild bash.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMThursday, October 10, 2019
Tracy Letts, the author of “August: Osage County,” reinvents the midlife crisis play with a hilarity that scalds in this Steppenwolf production.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMWednesday, October 9, 2019
Ross Golan’s dark chamber musical, based on a concept album, stars the excellent Joshua Henry as an innocent man on the lam.
Linked From The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PM 
