
Kristin Chenoweth and Ian McKellen demonstrate the increasingly popular art of turning theater palaces into cozy parlors for confabs with fans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]The Emmy-winning "Game of Thrones" star shows off his abundant charisma in a lachrymose musical adaptation of Rostand's classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]In this delicately wrought portrait of a dying choreographer and her family, Richard Nelson's play considers the redemptive powers of art in fractious times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]This convoluted play chronicles the breakdown of a conflicted, displaced East African woman in the cosmopolitan West.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]Tina Satter's remarkable docudrama recreates the bizarrely banal interrogation that led to the arrest of the intelligence contractor Reality Winner.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:03AM[SHARE]The director Leah C. Gardiner delivers a warm and inspiriting revival of the landmark poetic drama, with a gloriously interdependent cast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PM[SHARE]Gerard Alessandrini's franchise was looking as long in the tooth as the shows it aimed to skewer. A new edition brings it back to hilarious life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]This jubilant production, choreographed by Annie-B Parson, transforms an icon of alienation into a cosmically cozy senior statesman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48PM[SHARE]Michael Mayer's revitalizing revival of this genially gruesome classic becomes a sly morality tale for the age of universal celebrity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Trip Cullman's unmoored production of this atypical comedy from Tennessee Williams presents sexual attraction as a raging force of nature.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54PM[SHARE]This head-tripping play from Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, inspired by Euripides' "The Bacchae," allows women past and present to find catharsis in one truly wild bash.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PM[SHARE]Tracy Letts, the author of "August: Osage County," reinvents the midlife crisis play with a hilarity that scalds in this Steppenwolf production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PM[SHARE]Ross Golan's dark chamber musical, based on a concept album, stars the excellent Joshua Henry as an innocent man on the lam.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PM[SHARE]In this haunting memoir of his relationship with a homeless man, Mr. Oliver confirms his status as a poet laureate of New York's dispossessed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36AM[SHARE]This exultant evening of improvised rap " created by Thomas Kail, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Anthony Veneziale " turns out to be a perfect fit for Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]Ben Brantley and Jesse Green respond to readers curious about the Tony race, hungry for happy fare, and heading to London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AM[SHARE]Alexis Scheer's vibrant play about four teenage girls, a Ouija board and a narco-terrorist summons the truly scary spirits that keep us awake at night.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]In Jack Thorne's listless new play, a group of feckless friends gather to discuss Anne Tyler and share their self-consciousness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PM[SHARE]This distillation of Don DeLillo's 1985 novel, by the director who deconstructed "Oklahoma!," catalogs the clutter of the American mind.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PM[SHARE]His eyesight failing but schedule still packed, the 94-year-old stage director reflects on a globe-spanning career that includes a New York premiere this week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06AM[SHARE]Jaclyn Backhaus's slapdash comedy, at Playwright's Horizons, travels through time to coax oppressed spouses out of their powerful husband's shadows.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]This one-mentalist show, in which Mr. Brown peers into the minds of his audience, offers exhilaration and comfort to New York City's head cases.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]Mr. Hiddleston, Zawe Ashton and Charlie Cox portray three friends in flux in Jamie Lloyd's revelatory interpretation of a Harold Pinter classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]New York stages will bop to the songbooks of Bob Dylan, Alanis Morissette, Tina Turner and David Byrne this season. And that's not counting the 70 songwriters of "Moulin Rouge!"
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AM[SHARE]Jonathan Spector's lively portrait of a debate over mandatory vaccinations is the perfect play for our age of disagreement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PM[SHARE]Jason O'Connell and Brenda Withers's adaptation of "Cyrano de Bergerac" at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival asks us not to take anything at face value.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PM[SHARE]Andrew Scott, John Malkovich and Clive Owen are among the West End actors portraying men hopelessly in thrall to erotic impulses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PM[SHARE]The trapezes disguised as bedding may encourage you to trip the enchanted glade with the frisky cast of this London production. Feel free.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PM[SHARE]Jonathan Cake finds the cracks in the macho surface of Shakespeare's strangest tragic hero in Daniel Sullivan's fiery production in Central Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]Forbidden pleasures abound in this spectacular musical, starring a dazzling Karen Olivo as a doomed Parisian chanteuse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36AM[SHARE]In this musical theater piece adapted from a Langston Hughes poem, the bass-baritone Davóne Tines embodies the evolving, divided soul of black America.
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