Aleshea Harris’s remarkable new play brims with an expressly theatrical eloquence and anger.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMHansol Jung’s industriously imaginative play uses visions of winged flight to explore the loneliness of two ambivalent lovers in Seoul.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMJohn Doyle’s inventive revival of Brecht’s 1941 satire about Adolf Hitler is more impressive for theatrical ingenuity than topicality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMThis one-man show, about the anxieties of impending fatherhood, makes a seductive case for seeing a comedian live in the age of Netflix.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMIn Oliver Butler’s revival, Will Eno’s reputation-making monologue of masochistic bleakness suddenly feels a lot less shocking.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMMr. Sanders, a veteran of four decades of stage and screen work, is giving the performance of his career in his first appearance in Chekhov.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMThe one-ton, 20-foot marionette is impressive, but the $35 million musical he stars in doesn’t even succeed as camp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMPatricia Ione Lloyd’s macabre domestic comedy suggests that for African-Americans, every day is a potential horror movie in the making.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMGarry Hines’s very funny interpretation of Samuel Beckett’s best-known work finds the kinetic cartoon humor in existential futility.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMIn this brisk and entertaining revival of Harvey Fierstein’s Tony-winning play, Michael Urie and Mercedes Ruehl are mesmerizingly larger than life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMNgozi Anyanwu’s tender new play, directed by Awoye Timpo at the Vineyard Theater, considers the nature of memory in the aftermath of a tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:05PMThis impeccably acted revival presents Kenneth Lonergan’s poignant comic drama about dementia as a memory play in more ways than one.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMJaclyn Backhaus’s cheerfully instructive play follows a young Punjabi-American woman, a descendant of a notorious pirate, who opens a bar in Wisconsin.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMJez Butterworth’s great, sprawling drama of rural Northern Ireland during the Troubles bares a culture’s contradictions through riveting storytelling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMIn Jane Anderson’s satisfyingly old-fashioned play about Joan of Arc’s mom, Ms. Close shows the stuff of which great stage stars are made.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMPortraying a celebrated art historian with two resentful sons, Ms. Channing finds the anguished heart in a didactic comic drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMDavid Greenspan’s tone poem of a play, at the Bushwick Starr, considers time, death, family and the ways in which we recall our dead.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMThis strident satire from the filmmaker behind “Happiness” and “Wiener-Dog” is perfectly staged — and all too obvious.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AMA stripped-down, communal version of the 1943 musical reveals a great complex work of theater, with chili and cornbread included.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMBill Irwin blurs the lines between clown and dramatic actor in an insightful anatomy of the works of Samuel Beckett.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMIn this multimedia performance piece, Angelica Page delivers a portrait of a poet for whom being “nobody” was anything but a pleasure.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMRichard Bean’s comedy about a wayward attempt to fix a snooker match tickles its audiences into contentment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThis congested revival, directed by Austin Pendleton, features a mismatched cast of four and some classic Williams dialogue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AMStefano Massini’s poetically cadenced portrait of the life and death of the Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya lets facts speak for themselves.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMIn a piece she describes as “sort of a play,” the poet and singer journeys through her past, with a little help from her children.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMMikel Murfi’s virtuoso performance about the life and death of a redoubtable woman is a many-tongued wonder of Irish storytelling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24PMRichard Nelson’s emotionally transparent interpretation of a Chekhov masterwork, starring a brilliant Jay O. Sanders, makes us hear a classic anew.
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