Mart Crowley’s epochal 1968 comic drama at last makes its Broadway debut, in Joe Mantello’s entertaining but disconnected production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMThis labored adaptation of a James short story, starring Tony Yazbeck, features a boldface creative team that includes John Kander and Susan Stroman
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PMThis initial, mind-frisking comedy from Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival is a reminder of the particular pleasures of warm-weather goofiness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMErin Markey’s disciplined performance piece, a collaboration with Emily Davis, examines the dissolving boundaries of intense intimacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMKieran Knowles’s gripping play about the Sheffield Blitz, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, focuses on the interdependent lives of four steel workers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PMIn this highly adrenalized production of Eugene O’Neill’s harrowing family portrait, everybody seems to be acting as fast as possible.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AMThis exquisite Wooster Group evocation of Tadeusz Kantor’s work becomes an ode to the ephemerality of theater and its creators.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12PMPassionate agreement on best musical, but after that all bets are off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMDisagreeing on classic musicals, agreeing on “The Band’s Visit,” and worried about a season when revivals outshone new plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMClare Barron’s glorious new play, at Playwrights Horizons, examines the anguished and ecstatic inner lives of a middle-school dance team.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMThis rambunctious riff on an ancient Greek comedy, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, considers the crazier consequences of the quest for utopia
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThis master farceur’s play, believed to be his 81st, charts social changes through six decades in a single stately home, inhabited by people as silly as they are sad.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMGeorge C. Wolfe’s entertaining production allows the large ensemble, including Mr. Washington, to charm one another and play to the crowd.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PMThis exuberant revival of Tom Stoppard’s 1974 comedy of the intellect, starring Tom Hollander, is one of the sweetest and strangest defenses of art.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMLucy Thurber’s compassionate but clunky play follows the bids of two young men from the Bronx to win scholarships at a New England college
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48PMJ.K. Rowling’s ever-popular boy wizard is all grown up in this enthralling two-part play, directed with seamless magic by John Tiffany.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12PMAmelia Roper’s portrait of disparate — and desperate — lives in a Swiss hotel becomes an indictment of moral blight in the 21st century.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMLynn Nottage’s beautiful, reverberating portrait of a murder and its consequences follows the global path of illicitly obtained ivory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMJack O’Brien and Justin Peck’s heartfelt, half-terrific revival of an American classic stars a wonderfully ambivalent Joshua Henry and Jessie Mueller.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMLindsey Ferrentino’s ambitious but ungainly drama, at Playwrights Horizons, assesses the effect of a school shooting on one uncomprehending survivor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:15PMTina Fey’s adaptation of her 2004 screenplay about high school cliques comes to Broadway with wit, fetch and a surplus of songs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThe puppeteer Basil Twist’s singular riff on a Berlioz symphony returns with enhanced production values and undiminished hallucinatory magic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMTarget Margin Theater’s tantalizing reconception of “The Thousand and One Nights” reminds us that there have always been unreliable narrators.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:40PMSimon Stone’s latter-day riff on Lorca’s poetic tragedy dares to go to extremes, in this portrait of a journalist trying to conceive a child.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMThis astutely acted revival of Kenneth Lonergan’s play presents conversation as an ongoing act of deception and betrayal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMMarianne Elliott’s London-born production of Tony Kushner’s masterwork is blazingly reimagined with a cast including Nathan Lane and Andrew Garfield.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:30PMThis sumptuous if uninvolving Encores! production invites you to wallow with the beautiful and damned in old Berlin.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:43PMThe Keen Company’s limpid revival of A.R. Gurney’s 1993 play makes a case for this eloquent portrait of a man who can’t change.
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