“A Streetcar Named Desire,” directed by Benedict Andrews, is a brave take on a classic play that envelops the audience in a timelessly primeval world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:13PMIt shares its name and most of its song list with a landmark musical from 1921, so is it old or new?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PMThe production, starring Gabriel Byrne, Jessica Lange, Michael Shannon and John Gallagher Jr., features some heavy-weather acting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMAoife Duffin stars in this story of a rebellious Irish girl, based on the novel of the same name by Eimear McBride.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:37PMThe settings for these monologues summon feelings of isolation in a crowd: a bus traveling by night through the heartland and the streets of New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMA musical based on Bret Easton Ellis’s 1991 novel has buckets of blood and robust hardbodies to spare.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19PMAlice Birch’s short, sharp shock of a play has a ferocious energy as it addresses women and their relationships with men, one another and a world in upheaval.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:21PMFrank Langella stars as a man wrestling with dementia in this play, a hit in Paris and London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:39PMThis work by Dominique Morisseau, directed by Steve Broadnax, has toured globally, bringing difficult discussions of race and justice along with it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:52PMAnne Washburn’s play, at Playwrights Horizons, brings old friends together for a funeral and blurs the borders between worlds.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36AMArthur Miller’s endlessly revived historical drama from 1953 suddenly feels like the freshest, scariest play in town.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThis stately concert production at City Center, part of Encores!, underscores the agonizing labor that momentous change often involves.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMBroadway composers like Tom Kitt and Jason Robert Brown take part in a concert at Symphony Space intended to lodge some new tunes between your ears.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24AMThis Tarell Alvin McCraney play centers on family fissures and a woman whose loved ones have gathered for her birthday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThe experimental Irish troupe Pan Pan turns one of modern drama’s seminal works inside out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PMThis Origin Theater production by Jonas Hassen Khemiri, at the Cell in Chelsea, follows a woman at war with herself.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:27PMJackie Sibblies Drury’s stylishly contemplative new play is a meditation on the nature of photography.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PMThis new play, performed by the Bats, the Flea Theater’s resident company, centers on a wistful 16-year-old surrounded by a feral and violent clan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMLucy Prebble’s play at the Barrow Street Theater centers on a young man and woman who question their emotions during a four-week pharmaceutical trial.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22PMRobert Wilson, as director, designer and actor, reinvents Beckett’s play at the Alexander Kasser Theater in Montclair, N.J.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:50PMThe 1963 musical set in a 1930s perfume shop in Budapest has been rapturously revived by the Roundabout Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:30PMIn Mr. Lonergan’s play, a narcissistic country music and movie star returns to the Tennessee town where he grew up to start a new life as a simple man.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:26PMThis Alex Timbers revival includes a bluegrass band and a rogues’ gallery of oddball comic performers in this musical based on a Eudora Welty novella.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMDavid Harrower’s disturbing drama of criminal love returns in a Broadway staging starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMIn Anna Ziegler’s play, Bobby Steggert plays a character — based on an actual person — who was born male but raised female after a botched circumcision.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMThis Marco Ramirez play, which takes place in the early 20th century, is set amid the sport of boxing and recreates the racism of the day.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:21PMIn Richard Nelson’s play at the Public Theater, the characters’ bereavement is laced with a sense that the world as they know it is coming to an end.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMThis collage tribute piece celebrates the French poet Arthur Rimbaud as the man who invented downtown as a state of mind.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:46PMAnna Ziegler’s new play tells the story of a boy who was mutilated in an accident and then raised as a girl.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:50PMKristiana Rae Colón’s play at the Flea Theater portrays an unthinkable crime and its origins and aftermath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:45PMIn this tuneful production by Lauren Worsham and Kyle Jarrow, friends gather at the start of the new year to retell and play out a fairy tale of their own.
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