
Daniel Fish's excavation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic at Bard College asks that we listen with virgin ears to the show that changed the Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:57AM[SHARE]Encores! Off-Center summer series revives Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's 1982 musical with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene, returning to her signature role.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:15PM[SHARE]This play from Melissa Ross centers on three sisters with romantic challenges and other issues.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:10PM[SHARE]In Douglas Carter Beane's comedy, Ms. LuPone plays a community-theater star.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:21PM[SHARE]The cast isn't quite what it seems in this Jaclyn Backhaus play set in the 1869 American West.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:28PM[SHARE]"Ada/Ava," from Manual Cinema and playing at 3LD, lets the audience in on the secrets behind the shadows in this spectral story of loss.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:56PM[SHARE]This show, which takes its title from "King Lear," is a deceptively jolly account of a traumatic chapter in the life of the actor Edward Petherbridge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:01PM[SHARE]The play, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is set in the magazine industry and explores its tense culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31PM[SHARE]This Shakespeare in the Park production about a duke living in exile features well-known names and the unpredictability of the weather.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PM[SHARE]The Atlantic Theater presents two early Mamet one-acts, "Prairie du Chien," from 1979, and "The Shawl," from 1985.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PM[SHARE]This new play by Dave Malloy, who wrote "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," is set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PM[SHARE]Anne Washburn makes a theater piece out of the chaos that characterizes the tech rehearsal of a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:34PM[SHARE]Kate E. Ryan's play at the Wild Project revolves around three women at a store in a New Hampshire town that has seen better days.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]A woman of unusual force barrels into the life of a butcher in his mid-70s in "Heisenberg," a play by Simon Stephens about an unlikely pairing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PM[SHARE]In this play, Mr. Eisenberg plays a self-centered character who wants to win of love of an engaged woman whom he's been smitten with since childhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PM[SHARE]In this production at City Center, Ms. Parker plays a woman who alters destiny when she kisses a stranger on the neck in a London train station.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:30PM[SHARE]In Jerry Lieblich's play in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks series, questions of who's playing whom become as giddy as a "Who's on first?" routine.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:31PM[SHARE]The real-life spouses Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley lead a new cast in the acclaimed musical about a family dealing with bipolar disorder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Zach Braff stars in “Trust,” a New Yorker-cartoonish comedy that seems to be based on the premise that we all have feelings of worthlessness and urges to control and be control…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The workshop of Paul Simon's The Capeman was set in its proper urban element at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]A select company of actors at the Berkshire Theater Festival is very much savoring Edward Albee's words in a first-class revival of "A Delicate Balance."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]In The Memory Show, the young composer Zach Redler has written a score that follows the patterns of minds grasping, often in vain, for clarity, conviction and lost time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]A site-specific production of Ibsen's Hedda Gabler is performed for an audience of two dozen in an East Village town house.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]At the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, a “Troilus and Cressida” that doesn’t shortchange the title characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Sometimes performers make you see familiar characters in new ways.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]In Christina Masciotti’s “Vision Disturbance,” a Greek-born woman experiences a strange eye disorder while going through a divorce.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Hedda and Hamlet, Nora and Blanche. Once in a while, an actor will shake your preconceptions of these classic characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]Broadway this season is the land of second chances for celebrities looking to reignite their careers and for plays that failed miserably in their first outings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM[SHARE]The saggy production of Edward Albee’s larky comedy of ideas “Me, Myself & I” at Playwrights Horizons reminds us that plays can sometimes lose their sense of purpose.
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