Dianne 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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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:52PMIn this play at Second Stage Theater, Ben Platt plays a student with no friends who suddenly finds people drawn to him for the wrong reason.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:43PMThis musical, directed by Michael Greif, stars Ben Platt as a teenager whose life takes a sudden turn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:38PMCasey Nicholaw’s Broadway musical avoids flashy tricks and easy sentiment, showing a natural feel for this story about a secret fountain of youth.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22PMBecky Mode’s one-man play has moved to Broadway, starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson as the poor guy who arranges five-star restaurant reservations for five-star people.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThis musical, set in a diner and scored by Sara Bareilles, centers on a woman stuck in an unhappy marriage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:23PMJames Earl Jones II plays a Republican lawyer in “Carlyle,” while “Hillary and Clinton” portrays a fictionalized Mrs. Clinton running for president.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:19PMThis new drama by Tracy Letts follows the life of its title character at various stages, moving in a nonlinear progression.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMThis Gotthold Ephraim Lessing work, translated and updated, includes a loaded question as it focuses on the themes of faith and family.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PMIke Holter’s drama at the Cherry Lane Theater depicts a Chicago high school’s faculty, and some students, trying to save their institution.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:25PMThis year’s Humana Festival of New American Plays includes “This Random World,” “Wellesley Girl” and Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThis cycle presents four Shakespeare history plays, both parts of “Henry IV” bookended by “Richard II” and “Henry V.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThis Aaron Posner play loosely adapts “The Seagull” and notably breaks the fourth wall with regularity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMSteve Martin and Edie Brickell are behind this slice of vintage Americana that gives Carmen Cusack her Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:34PMClaire Danes and John Krasinski are rival partners at a private equity firm in Sarah Burgess’s play about shenanigans in the world of big money.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMThis Labyrinth Theater Company production depicts a mother in denial about her insolvency and two daughters who seem to share her heedlessness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00PMThe New York stage veteran Marin Ireland gives a performance of beautiful complexity in Martyna Majok’s quietly gripping play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:22AMIn the comedy-drama “Dry Powder,” at the Public Theater, an equity firm and its top executives behave very badly.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:49PMMembers of a tight-knit transgender community come together to support a dying friend in this musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMIn this piece presented by the Baryshnikov Arts Center, Mikhail Baryshnikov recites poetry by Joseph Brodsky, the Nobel laureate who died in 1996.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMThe play, which is performed just once a week, features a new actor who doesn’t know the script.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03PMThe musical, at the Nederlander Theater, combines the cheesiness of disaster films with the questionable pleasure of pop hits of the K-Tel era.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMThis Danai Gurira drama set during Liberian civil war focuses on the choices and survival skills of several women brutalized by a rebel officer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMThis production, a culmination of the Somewhere Project, a citywide exploration of that classic musical, mixes professional actors with high-school-aged apprentices.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:26PMIn Danai Gurira’s fiercely funny new play, impending nuptials expose a culture clash and deep fissures within a Zimbabwean-American family in Minnesota.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMThis Lucas Hnath drama features a competitive swimmer who makes a surprising revelation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:28PMTrevor Nunn directs “Pericles,” one of Shakespeare’s tumultuous late romances, in a Theater for a New Audience Production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36AMThe show, based on Chazz Palminteri’s one-man play and, later, a film, is directed by Jerry Zaks and Robert De Niro.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:14AMColman Domingo wrote and Susan Stroman directs this comedy-drama about a woman with Alzheimer’s and how her family tries to adjust.
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