A new immersive musical set in a Korean hit factory moves to the beats of satire, soap opera and everything in between.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PM“Mary Jane” is a portrait of a mother’s relationship with her chronically ill young son. Carrie Coon of “The Leftovers” stars.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33AMThe play, about a single mother with five children, explores the dimensions of American sexual and societal guilt in a first-rate revival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMSimon Stephens’s play explores the dreams and disappointments in one working-class family.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMSuzan-Lori Parks’s Brechtian riff on Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Scarlet Letter” returns to the stage with a new vitality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMHis versatility as a composer of musicals was matched by his emotional ardor and political shrewdness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMA new play about Papp, the founder of the Public Theater, sets the tone for a season of audacious interpretations of the Shakespeare canon.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PM“Prince of Broadway,” an anthology musical of shows overseen by the mighty Harold Prince, travels aimlessly through the decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThe musical “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” ends its exuberant run on Broadway on Sept. 3.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PM“Primer for a Failed Superpower,” a concert in Brooklyn directed by Rachel Chavkin, asked an audience to raise its voice in protest songs of many generations.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMTheater has quickly taken on the Trump presidency. Whether what’s onstage can change minds or spark action is open to debate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMStage adaptations of “Bat Out of Hell” and “The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole, Aged 13¾” allow the middle-aged to retreat to the age of innocence.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMPlays in London spanning more than a century suggest how much and how little has changed for British women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMOn London stages: A new look at the rise of a media mogul, and two anniversary revivals that explore a nation tilting between hedonism and despair.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMPolitical plays by Suzan-Lori Parks and Michael Moore, Harold Prince’s hit anthology and New York premieres from Simon Stephens and Bruce Norris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMThe Irish playwright Conor McPherson weaves an American tale of nomads out of the Bob Dylan songbook in this play at the Old Vic Theater in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMIn “Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow,” the playwright Halley Feiffer reimagines Chekhov.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PM“Cat on a Hot Tin Roof” has rarely ignited in recent years. But this production in London dazzles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMAndrew Scott’s portrayal in a London production of “Hamlet” almost banishes other performances from memory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMThis exuberant musical out of Toronto, adapted from the poems by Edgar Lee Masters, presents an all-souls hootenanny.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33PMSam Gold’s funny and heartbreaking production treats Shakespeare’s daunting masterpiece with disarming familiarity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PMOne night a week, Donna Murphy takes over the title role in “Hello, Dolly!” from Bette Midler. Alternates, like her, and replacements can help make or break a hit show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMA British theater troupe considers the uses and abuses of psychological experimentation in “Opening Skinner’s Box.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMDominique Morisseau’s new play at Lincoln Center plunges us into the fatalistic worldview of the mother of an African-American teenager.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12PMDominique Morisseau is one of the theater’s most penetrating voices. In her latest play, she focuses on issues of class and education.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMOur chief theater critics went to see the interactive performance piece on the same night, expecting to have vastly different experiences. They didn’t.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMIn this impeccably realized play by Abe Koogler, four mismatched characters reach out to each other in a New Mexico desertscape.
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