
The 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 07:35PM[SHARE]Mr. 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 05:36PM[SHARE]Frank 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 06:04PM[SHARE]In 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 10:49PM[SHARE]This play, by Kaneza Schaal, explores the act of mourning. It is part of the Coil festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:26AM[SHARE]This 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 02:10PM[SHARE]Silvia Calderoni, a longtime member of this boundary-defying international theater company, examines gender in an autobiographical show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:13PM[SHARE]This Broadway show's latest star plays a cabaret drag artist with broad, wholesome appeal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:08PM[SHARE]Mr. 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 09:44AM[SHARE]With 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 06:09PM[SHARE]This 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 11:19AM[SHARE]Ms. 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:45PM[SHARE]Nick Kroll and John Mulaney don't so much portray their characters Gil and George as allow themselves to be taken over by them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28PM[SHARE]Under John Doyle's direction, this revival of the musical based on Alice Walker's novel forgoes sumptuousness in favor of vivid character development.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28PM[SHARE]The actress, who made her Broadway debut in 1952, will star in the play at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:57PM[SHARE]"Hamilton," "An American in Paris" and "Eclipsed" are among the highlights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:52PM[SHARE]Michael C. Hall stars in Ivo van Hove's New York Theater Workshop production of this sequel to "The Man Who Fell to Earth."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:26PM[SHARE]Starring a bouncing Super Ball of energy named Alex Brightman, this is Andrew Lloyd Webber's friskiest musical in decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PM[SHARE]No play opening on Broadway this fall has had a more fraught back story, though star power always guaranteed a commercial slam dunk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:09AM[SHARE]John Jesurun's multimedia production at at La MaMa, a work in progress since the late '90s, views soap-opera conventions through a hallucinatory lens.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22PM[SHARE]Mr. Muñoz brings a sexiness to his portrayal of Alexander Hamilton in this musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:20PM[SHARE]Eric Tucker's Bedlam theater troupe performs this show from Steven Sater and Burt Bacharach at the New Ohio Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:21PM[SHARE]This New Group production, directed by Cynthia Nixon, portrays a group of gay New Yorkers for whom life was once truly a cabaret.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PM[SHARE]The German playwright Maria Milisavljevic considers topical questions of European national identities in this play, at Theaterlab.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:34PM[SHARE]In this Broadway adaptation of Stephen King's thriller, Bruce Willis infuses his captive bedridden character with a wisecracking stoicism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:40PM[SHARE]From its opening scene, Ivo van Hove's revival of Arthur Miller's play evokes an acute sense of dread and a relentless aura of grim predestination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PM[SHARE]Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter, this production of two condensed Shakespeare plays reveals the desperation behind the bravado.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PM[SHARE]This play at the Signature Theater centers on a group of mostly Jewish detainees in Vichy France who struggle with denial, choices and fundamental questions of identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:46AM[SHARE]The playwright John Pollono is a deft practitioner of the sort of twist-in-the-tale narratives that are mostly associated with O. Henry and W. Somerset Maugham.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PM[SHARE]The Mobile Shakespeare Unit's streamlined tale of two sets of separated twins comes to the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PM[SHARE]Mr. Bacon stars in Keith Reddin's adaptation of Cornell Woolrich's crime story that also became a Hitchcock classic.
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