
A 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 07:54PM[SHARE]Bill 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 10:42PM[SHARE]In this multimedia performance piece, Angelica Page delivers a portrait of a poet for whom being "nobody" was anything but a pleasure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PM[SHARE]Conor McPherson's bleak tale of a Minnesota boardinghouse in the Great Depression finds a luminous transcendence in the Dylan song book.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]In the baggy, emotionally fraught play, Heidi Schreck considers her ever-changing relationship with a seminal document.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PM[SHARE]Richard Bean's comedy about a wayward attempt to fix a snooker match tickles its audiences into contentment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]This congested revival, directed by Austin Pendleton, features a mismatched cast of four and some classic Williams dialogue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36AM[SHARE]Stefano 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 10:48PM[SHARE]In 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 01:48PM[SHARE]Mikel 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 07:24PM[SHARE]Richard Nelson's emotionally transparent interpretation of a Chekhov masterwork, starring a brilliant Jay O. Sanders, makes us hear a classic anew.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PM[SHARE]This combination of a classical tragedy and a contemporary discussion group finds a mirror for Ferguson, Mo., in ancient Thebes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PM[SHARE]In the most promising plays opening this fall, the family drama opens its living room to an invasion of political anxieties.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18AM[SHARE]They are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AM[SHARE]Ben Brantley and his London counterpart Michael Billington find much that's enthralling about the state of playwriting in their countries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06AM[SHARE]This wan resuscitation of the 1990 movie about a Cinderella prostitute is likely to make you nostalgic for Julia Roberts's original performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Roslyn Ruff gives a wondrous performance in the Williamstown Theater Festival revival of the Carson McCullers play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PM[SHARE]This high-energy, high-anxiety musical, a hit on social media even before it opened, reflects the metabolism of its teenage audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]The movie that heralded the jukebox musical has been reinvented as a jukebox musical on its very own terms at the Emerson Colonial Theater in Boston.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PM[SHARE]This radiant Public Works production of Shakespeare's comedy of identity asks us "to see through the eyes of another."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PM[SHARE]Marcus Gardley's loquacious and freewheeling answer to a Lorca classic is set in a fascinating moment for race relations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]This confused musical combines 1980s pop hits with a Renaissance romance, while considering the importance of being nonbinary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]Carson Kreitzer and Matt Gould's exciting new musical dares to dream big as it follows the making of the artist Tamara de Lempicka in Jazz-Age Paris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:36PM[SHARE]This tone-deaf rock-opera remembrance of the twilight of Studio 54 features characters named Steve Rubell and The Artist. (Psst! That's Andy Warhol.)
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]This comedy of dismay by Alan Bennett, author of "The History Boys," portrays a geriatric ward (of singing, dancing patients!) in an uncaring Britain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PM[SHARE]The Comédie-Française's mesmerizing adaptation of Luchino Visconti's film charts the fall of a family steel dynasty during Hitler's rise to power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]In the National Theater's adaptation of Stefano Massini's play, three wondrous actors become multitudes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PM[SHARE]Fiery performances by Lia Williams in "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" and Adrienne Warren in "Tina" newly illuminate familiar female characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PM[SHARE]Crowd-drawing revivals of "Killer Joe" and "The Lieutenant of Inishmore" find two movie matinee idols transformed into mindless sociopaths.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PM[SHARE]Dennis Kelly's one-person drama examines the role of gender and violence through the eyes of a mother of young children.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]John Doyle's resurrection of a famously problematic show, starring Anika Noni Rose, finds the fatalism " and universality " in its music.
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