Mr. Houghton, who died Tuesday, founded a Signature Theater whose seasons have focused mostly on a single playwright — a radical, fruitful approach.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMThis play explores Alice Austen’s early passion for the medium of photography and her long relationship with her lover, Gertrude Tate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:01PMThis revival of a former Broadway hit pays homage to the original production while infusing the feline creatures of the show with fresh star power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:43PMEncores! revives the 1979 musical “Kurt Vonnegut’s God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater,” a convoluted road trip that sends up capitalism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMThis visually dazzling, mind-pinching production from the British company 1927 combines live performance, animation and music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMThis operetta, guided by the trademark silliness of Gilbert & Sullivan, takes the audience along for a buoyant trip on the high seas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PMAt the Lincoln Center Festival, Jonathan Pryce stars as Shylock in a production filled with scorn, violence and anti-Semitism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMThis celebratory jukebox musical, with a book by Berry Gordy, who founded the Motown record label, has returned to Broadway for a limited run.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:34PMThe celebrated all-female Japanese theater company Takarazuka performed as part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:34PMThe play, much of which is silent, is just as intimate and lucid as its performances at Ars Nova last year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMPlays at the Rose Theater include “Okina,” a prayer for peace and long life, and “Hagoromo,” in which an angel loses her robe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:34PMAt the Williamstown Theater Festival, one of Tennessee Williams’s less deluded heroines.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PMThis drama by Samuel D. Hunter about friends gathering to mourn a suicide is presented by Theater Breaking Through Barriers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:13PMFour women who have all been involved with the same man gather in his Paris apartment in this new play from Israel Horovitz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:16PMA musical comedy at the Yale Repertory Theater follows members of a Catholic school chorus arriving in Edinburgh to compete in a choral contest.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PMThis play, at the Mitzi Newhouse Theater, examines the events that led up to the Oslo peace accords.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:22PMTwo teenagers on a Rhode Island beach become attracted to each other despite an obvious obstacle in this comedic drama at Playwrights Horizon.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMGod reprises his stage role as a gay white male sitcom star in “an hour and a half of comedy heaven” at the Booth Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:01PMIts talented cast performed with infectious gusto. But this musical featuring the work of Kid Creole and the Coconuts is overwritten with an awkward plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PMThe newest offering from Ms. Alvarez pulls its audience into the awkward places people in their 30s inhabit as they commit to careers and loves.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:09PMThe show, at the Lyric Theater, features a story, set in old Hollywood, that adds the company’s usual circus acts to a traditional musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02PMA preacher spars with his gay son in this fresh and funny if sometimes wayward musical filled with soulful music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02PMThe classic story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been told for centuries, and now it has become a folk opera by the gifted songwriter Anaïs Mitchell.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19PMThe play, which stars Joe Morton as the comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, feels as vital as Mr. Gregory’s work did in the 1960s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PMThis powerful new drama by Paula Vogel sheds light on a time when history, Jewish culture and the depiction of lesbian love explosively intersected.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19PMQuiara Alegría Hudes’s ensemble drama, which opened at the Signature Theater on Sunday, sympathizes with Philadelphia waifs and strays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMBobby Steggert portrays the French painter’s bohemian days and nights in the Montmartre section of Paris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PMA couple, played by Tim Daly and Rachael Holmes, are unsettled after one of them invites a guest to their home in this work, at City Center Stage II.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:12AMDianne Wiest delivers a fearless performance in a play that examines the trap that human life can become, at Yale Repertory Theater.
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