In her enthralling study of interracial relationships, featuring a brilliant Daveed Diggs, Suzan-Lori Parks parses the lies we live by.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThis meandering work of musical stand-up theater, from the TEAM and the National Theater of Scotland, probes the past and present of two nations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:22PMIn Christopher Hampton’s translation of Florian Zeller’s Freudian chamber play, Ms. Huppert confirms her reputation as the most fearless of actresses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMJoe Iconis and Joe Tracz’s cult sci-fi musical about high school paranoia arrives on Broadway with its wholesale klutziness intact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMIn her priceless one-woman play, the writer and performer summons the pleasures and pain of being young, single and sexually compulsive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMJeremy O. Harris, the author of “Slave Play,” has written another sexually and racially charged work, but one that ends up overwrought.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThis directionless new musical, set in Lewis Carroll’s Wonderland and a London subway station, challenges its audience’s willingness to make believe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMWest End productions of “Company” and “Caroline, or Change” have the heart and fire that sometimes felt missing in earlier incarnations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:10PMJackie Sibblies Drury’s sparkling new play, about the Jamaican-born nurse Mary Seacole, reinvents a dramatic trope as a dizzying hall of mirrors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMRevivals of work by Pinter and Miller — and a play about an Englishman roped into an Italian horror movie — ponder mortal anxiety in the age of Brexit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMThis London adaptation of the Oscar-winning satire, starring a misused Gillian Anderson and Lily James, is like a horror movie without a pulse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMCate Blanchett, Laura Linney and Katherine Parkinson are three heroines in search of elusive selves in plays by Martin Crimp, Rona Munro and Laura Wade.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMTwo productions at the Classic Stage Company channel the electric ambivalence of August Strindberg.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMStephen Belber’s time-traveling drama, starring Johanna Day, connects the dots of woman’s conflicted existence during six decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMIn this unsettling revival, directed by James Macdonald, two fine actors find the existential terror in Sam Shepard’s portrait of battling brothers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMAmy Staats’s tale of the rowdy rise (and fall and rise and fall) of the rock band lets women loose in the glam metal boys’ club.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMCharly Evon Simpson’s quietly commanding play chronicles gynecological experimentation on American slave women in the antebellum South.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMHow her outsize presence — and that “Hello, Dolly!” cast album — helped entice a burgeoning theater critic to New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMSebastian Barry’s imbalanced new play, set in a Dublin prison, confirms its writer’s gift for finding the holiness in the everyday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMVisionary stylist or one-trick pony? With “Network” on Broadway and “All About Eve” on the horizon, the multimedia-mad stage director is ready for his close-up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24AMOfferings at the festival include a riff on “Uncle Vanya”; a “Frankenstein” adaptation highlighting a mother’s grief; and an intimate tale of displacement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMMarin Ireland blazes furiously as an emotional terrorist in Abby Rosebrock’s emotionally congested comic drama, set in a Southern rehab center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PMAn eclectic opening weekend included sketches and songs by Nigerian women, two unsettling monologues and a punk-rock reminiscence (with mixtape to follow).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMAmy Heckerling’s amiable but limp adaptation of her classic 1995 film suggests a peppy fan club putting on its own makeshift show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThis gnomic tale from the fabled director portrays a man expiating a patricide outside a prison’s walls.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMThis extraordinary, London-born work of immersive theater places its audience at the fraught and energetic center of a migrant camp in France.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PMIvo van Hove’s stage adaptation of the 1976 film presents a pricelessly demented affair between a has-been anchorman and the cameras that love him.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMIt was a year when classics were reincarnated in deceptively modest interpretations, conventional story forms were tossed aside and strong voices roared.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48AMMartin Moran’s radiant memoir of a play recalls an experience of sexual abuse with a sense of luminous mystery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMIn this garrulous play of ideas, the author of “The Real Thing” and “The Coast of Utopia” takes on the essence — and ethics — of being human.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMAleshea Harris’s remarkable new play brims with an expressly theatrical eloquence and anger.
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