A revised version of a musical memoir from the Bengsons affectingly reimagines commitment-phobia in existential terms.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMThis narcoticized production of Seth Zvi Rosenfeld’s play, starring a drug-glazed Chloë Sevigny, revisits a dirty old New York of yore.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54PMThe Hypocrites’ blithe production of the Gilbert and Sullivan classic offers the perfect restorative alternative to holiday drudgery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMIvo van Hove’s hypnotic adaptation of Ayn Rand’s notorious 1943 novel speaks to the primitive narcissist in all of us. (Mr. Trump, are you listening?)
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMRevivals of plays by Ibsen and Wilde, and a new work about the young Karl Marx, find strong women chafing under the yoke of dominating men
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMNew musicals on London’s stages include a merciless and compassionate “Follies,” a revitalized “Young Frankenstein” and a timely saga of an aspiring drag queen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:04PMSarah DeLappe’s remarkably assured first play, a group portrait of a girls’ soccer team, is now at Lincoln Center Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PMA site-specific revival of “Witness for the Prosecution” finds the comfort factor in a murder trial.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:04PMA stage adaptation, directed by Ivo van Hove, confirms the prophecy of a 1976 movie about populist rage and manipulative technology
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48AMNew plays from Mike Bartlett and James Graham pose E.M. Forster’s newly urgent question of who inherits England
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMEverett Quinton’s frantic revival of an intergalactic farce from 1967 reveals Charles Ludlam as a pioneer of cultural recycling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMThis singularly seductive show, based on an Israeli film, finds the ecstasy in ennui in a small desert town.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMAyad Akhtar, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of “Disgraced,” explores the shady side of 1980s Wall Street in an economics lesson of a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PM“Brigadoon” appears (briefly), Amy Schumer steps onto Broadway and an acclaimed musical returns to a bigger stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12AMVinyl sings across the decades in the Wooster Group’s transcendent presentation of a 1965 album of songs from a Texas chain gang.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMRichard Nelson’s murmur of a play is set at a momentous time in the Manhattan theater world of the 1950s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMDavid Harrower’s remarkable play, depicting a romantic triangle in a desolate, premodern world, finally receives its New York premiere.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMA powerful Clive Owen is the best thing about the didactic revival of David Henry Hwang’s breakthrough look at sexual delusion and East-West relations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMAnna Ziegler’s new drama enters the heads of two players at the U.S. Open as they struggle toward match point
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMThis futurist play, starring Cristin Milioti, imagines a world in which reality (or the nonvirtual kind) is in retreat
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMPortraying mother and son in a fierce revival of Harvey Fierstein’s comedy, Mercedes Ruehl and Michael Urie are in peak form.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMWorks from the Belarus Free Theater and the Freedom Theater explore the drama of confronting authority.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMHeather Christian communes with — and possibly exorcises — the spirits of the dead in a truly one-of-a-kind performance piece
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMAn astonishing Lars Eidinger is a hunchback to remember in Thomas Ostermeier’s Halloween treat of a production at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMThe experimental theater troupe’s rendition of “Measure for Measure” is frenzied but not especially insightful.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12PMA definitive revival of the musical “Merrily We Roll Along” and a new play about Andy Warhol and Truman Capote dissect the discontents of celebrity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMTitans of literature and politics are asked to look deep into their souls and admit their bad faith in Scott Carter’s careful debate of a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMMax Posner’s tender yet unforgiving new play considers a son’s inability to love a mother who has dementia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PMIn this production from Chicago, starring Michael Shannon, goofball farce and existential despair are by no means incompatible.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMKarin Coonrod’s inventive production of Shakespeare’s notorious comedy has five actors playing the moneylender. It sounds gimmicky but it works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMA new immersive musical set in a Korean hit factory moves to the beats of satire, soap opera and everything in between.
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