In 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:20PMIn the play, by Simon McBurney at the Barbican Theater in London, audience members are asked to put on headphones and listen closely.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:27PMClare Barron’s play at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn recalls the anguishing mysteries of sex and love during adolescence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMThe actor makes his Broadway debut in this one-act play by Eugene O’Neill.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:57PM“Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom,” “The Master Builder” and “Uncle Vanya” are all studies in the power of rage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PMSome unpleasant emotions are at the heart of “Hughie,” “Long Day’s Journey Into Night,” “The Crucible” and “Hold On to Me, Darling.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PMThis revival of the award-winning American gothic play stars Amy Madigan and Ed Harris as parents in a dysfunctional Illinois farmhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PMIn this revival, Ms. Smith plays Fanny Brice, the role that sent Barbra Streisand soaring into the stratosphere in the 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMMartin McDonagh and Caryl Churchill’s two plays, so different, are united by extreme narrative tension.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PMThis Manhattan Theater Club play depicts a self-worshiping, caustic pupil who intrigues and frustrates his boarding-school teachers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThe company begins a two-season project devoted to the writer, starting with “Drunken With What,” which excavates “Mourning Becomes Electra.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:39AMBedlam theater company’s version of the Jane Austen novel expands and magnifies Austen’s delicate comic worldview without cracking a single teacup.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:46AMThis immersive play conjures a Florida resort built on nostalgia and losing one’s inhibitions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PMThese two plays — “Tonight With Donny Stixx” and “Dark Vanilla Jungle,” playing in repertory at Here — consist of monologues by people who have committed unspeakable crimes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:16PMThis play revolves around two high school students and a link to Walt Whitman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:34PMRichard Greenberg juxtaposes a generational then and now to consider how little we know about the lives that shape our own.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMThis final work in Dominique Morisseau’s Detroit trilogy is a deeply moral and deeply American play, with compassion for people trapped by circumstances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:34PMBanana Bag & Bodice’s new production at the Bushwick Starr owes a debt to Beckett but is exuberantly American.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:04PMThough best known for the “Die Hard” and “Harry Potter” movies, he was even more compelling as a serpentine seducer onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:35PMThe one-man play, by Chris Thorpe, looks at confirmation bias, and tries to make the audience truly consider another person’s competing viewpoint.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:35PMMr. Oluo and a team of performers manage to be expansive and engaging in this musical memoir at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMFrank Boyd plays a hard-core music obsessive in this piece, staged as if it were a live radio show at the Coil Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMIn this play, at La MaMa Downstairs, Silvia Calderoni takes on many guises and expounds on the inadequacy of our vocabulary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:49PMThis play, by Kaneza Schaal, explores the act of mourning. It is part of the Coil festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:26AMThis show from France, part of the Under the Radar Festival, reinvents a creation myth, tracing the evolution of human consciousness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:10PMSilvia Calderoni, a longtime member of this boundary-defying international theater company, examines gender in an autobiographical show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:13PMThis Broadway show’s latest star plays a cabaret drag artist with broad, wholesome appeal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PMMr. Lee, who stepped in as His Majesty in September, invests his character with a wit and poignancy and an electric attraction to Kelli O’Hara’s Anna.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:44AMWith help from the singer Sheryl Crow and the director Kathleen Marshall, Barry Levinson has made a musical of his 1982 buddy film that promotes its female roles.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:09PMThis play, written by Jordan Harrison and directed by Anne Kauffman, centers on an 85-year-old woman who gets help from a re-creation of her dead husband.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:19AMMs. Hoffman, in the role Carol Burnett originated in 1959, is a vocal slapstick artist of both speech and song, shifting registers and styles with madcap virtuosity.
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