John McManus’s play tells of a developer who tries to make a deal with a gabby man in his bath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMThis enigmatic dance-drama, whose set has a vaguely steampunk air, centers on a petulant tyrant and his minions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:30PMThis musical from the songwriters Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick is being described as an “intimate one-act reimagining” of “The Rothschilds,” the 1970 musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMUsing their phones or tablets, audience members can take in special effects, YouTube videos and random arcana with live performances based on “The Wizard of Oz” movie.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:25PMAny qualms anyone might have about this being a premature revival will vanish when the cast of both hearing and deaf actors floods the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:34PMThe McCarter Theater’s production doesn’t stray far from the indelible 1956 movie, but the sexuality feels toned down.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:07PMLucas Hnath’s depiction of a conservative congregation wrestling with radical new ideas mirrors what’s happening now in churches across the country.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:50PMMr. Laurence wrote and stars in this play, in which his character is a Hamlet-obsessed actor who wants to find his birth mother.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:50PMMax Posner’s play depicts the households of three siblings in the future, when everyone seems to spout bizarre thoughts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:10PMThis production includes short plays by Beth Henley, Elizabeth Egloff, John Gaure, Marcus Gardley, David Grimm and Rebecca Gilman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:26PMProductions include an intriguing-sounding show called “Futurity,” coming in the fall from Soho Rep, and the revival of Sam Shepard’s “Fool for Love.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:22AMA straight young man in the Florida Panhandle finds an unlikely path to prosperity in this Matthew Lopez play at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMProfessional actors like Brandon Victor Dixon and amateur entertainers combine to turn this adaptation of Homer’s poem into a vibrant tapestry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:27PMThe Acting Company has put together an evening of Williams’s works by a distinguished roster of American playwrights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54AMThe troupe has dedicated itself to community outreach and “color-conscious” casting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:38PMTwo men tussle, verbally and philosophically, for the affections of a woman in Anna Ziegler’s memory play about the fragile dynamics of relationships.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMThis play by Sherie Rene Scott, one of its stars, and Dick Scanlan, is drawn on their experience working with prisoners on monologues about their lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:38PMA young stranger interrupts a wealthy old widow’s plan to give away everything she owns in this new play at the Signature Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:56PMJoseph Haj’s new production, which includes sections set to music, charts the misfortunes of a prince whose daughter ultimately rescues him from despair.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:30PMThis play at the Duke on 42nd Street is about an anthropologist whose deeply personal reasons for pursuing her work lead her into questionable moral territory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:40PMAt the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Jeff Whitty’s merry new work combines a 16th-century poetic tale with the music of the Go-Go’s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:59PMLynn Nottage’s new drama, produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, examines two generations of factory workers and the decline of industry in the United States.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:38PMThis original musical from the married team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who won an Oscar for their song “Let It Go,” is making its premiere at La Jolla Playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:20PMThe membrane between life and death seems strangely permeable in the Signature Theater’s production of Annie Baker’s appealingly odd drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31PMThis Shakespeare in the Park production stars Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater as a couple torn apart and then reunited.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PMJoshua Harmon’s play, about a young gay man who is losing his best girlfriends to wedding bells, is concluding its run at the Laura Pels Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:31PMA note found in a dead teenager’s pocket sets off unpredictable events in the sweet, sad and quite moving new musical making its premiere at Arena Stage in Washington.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:25PMThomas Ostermeier’s staging of Strindberg’s 1888 tale about a socially forbidden love affair resets the story in the world of Russia’s new billionaires.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:41PMThis new play by Fernanda Coppel, part of Second Stage’s Uptown summer season, stars Karen Pittman as a powerful sports agent.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22PMStaged at the Lincoln Center Festival, the play features an array of strange characters who flit among landscapes depicted in illuminated glass boxes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:44PMIn Yussef El Guindi’s play, two male photographers attempt a ménage à trois with a female writer, only to encounter unexpected revelations.
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