The 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThis ensemble piece from the Baxter Theater Center of Cape Town traces the exhilaration and ache of group activism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PMBruce Norris’s latest play, an Colonial picaresque, reminds us that in cynical times, a swig of misanthropy can raise the spirits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMLindsey Ferrentino’s insightful but uneven new play sends three adult siblings on a road trip to their late parents’ house.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMA grand return for Tony Kushner’s “Angels,” a raw reworking of “Yerma” and a South African docudrama about bringing down a statue — all this and Glenda Jackson, too!
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMDarian Dauchan’s one-android performance piece uses rap, dance and colored lights to find “the connection between species.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThis divinely wrought, beautifully sung New Group production finds compassion within a very relevant satire.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:23PMAfter winning two Oscars, she stopped acting for decades to fight Thatcherism. Now, at 81, she’s tackling an Edward Albee classic. But she insists, “I lead a very dull life.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMA rowdy Irish revue from the Dubin-based troupe Thisispopbaby asks the world to make love, not war, and dance, dance, dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:56AMMs. Maxwell, who has died at 61, transmitted an uncommon intelligence and love of craft found only in great theater performers.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMIn this play directed by Thomas Ostermeier and starring Nina Hoss, a French philosopher ponders the move to the right in blue-collar France.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThis London import shows the director and writer of “Three Billboards” still utterly at home in the (dark) shadows of the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMWith her first play in nearly a decade, the 86-year-old playwright reminds audiences of her singular vision.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMMichael Kahn’s production for the Shakespeare Theater Company provides Elsinore with a new arsenal that includes smartphones and surveillance cameras.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMThe Mad Ones’ portrait of a group of teachers in a purgatorial staff meeting finds the entertainment factor in endless irritation
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMIn the bleak and buoyant “Paradiso,” a world beyond human existence is summoned with stark sentimentality and endless eloquence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMEnda Walsh’s wild cosmic farce, in which two men act out the life of a fantasy village, finds the aching emptiness in words, words, words
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMIn this multimedia, multidimensional performance piece, the boundaries of race, gender and ethnicity blur into a shifting pageant of identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PMFor the new year, productions that aim to shake up your senses and challenge your assumptions. Plus: ’80s jargon and hair.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:30PMThis harrowing and exhilarating revival, featuring an inexhaustible cast of two, summons the agonies and ecstasies of being 17 in a blighted Irish town.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:15AMThe newcomer Jamael Westman steps out as a fully formed star in the title role of the triumphant London production of “Hamilton.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:21PMIn a creative master stroke, this National Theater adaptation of the Disney film uses oversized puppets to play adults, who tower over the title figure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:23AMIn Claire van Kampen’s strange, enchanting “Farinelli and the King,” from Shakespeare’s Globe in London, music hath charms to spare.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMFiasco Theater’s agreeable production of a much-performed play finds the clarity in a comedy of confusion.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMGeoff Sobelle’s hallucinatory performance piece at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is set in a house that comes to life before your eyes.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMThis ginormous adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon television series perfectly captures the innocently idiotic spirit of its prototype
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