In Yussef El Guindi’s play, two male photographers attempt a ménage à trois with a female writer, only to encounter unexpected revelations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThe musical, named for the 18th-century hymn often associated with African-American culture and the civil rights movement of the 1960s, unfolds as a history lesson trimmed in melodrama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PMMs. Gomez spins a comic fantasia in her new solo show at Dixon Place, flitting between characters from the movies and her own brash persona.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:28PMConor McPherson’s haunting drama, first seen on Broadway, is revived by the Irish Repertory Theater in a cozy, intimate setting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:21AMIn his poignant one-person play about a missing gay teenager, James Lecesne plays a hard-boiled detective, an emphatic hair stylist and much more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMJoshua Harmon’s new play centers on a wistful young man who feels left behind as close friends begin walking down the aisle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28PMChris Noth and Zach Grenier star in the Classic Stage Company’s production of the Christopher Marlowe work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:28PMThis comedy, the latest play from the Pulitzer Prize-winning provocateur Bruce Norris, is directed by Pam MacKinnon at Playwrights Horizons.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMThis season is a banner one for that Elizabethan tragedian, and it continues with a new version of “Doctor Faustus” at the Classic Stage Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:02AMThis two-hander by Rajiv Joseph dramatizes a dark myth about the construction of the Taj Mahal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:29PMMuch remains unresolved in Daniel Talbott’s play, which includes brief scenes of mostly mundane interactions between American soldiers in a remote desert.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMJoseph Wilde’s two-hander centers on a teenage vampire cared for, and kept captive, by her older sister.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThis play at the Two River Theater, adapted from a novel by Ned Vizzini, centers on a teenager who turns cool after ingesting a tiny computer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PMA songwriter offers music and banter at Harlem Stage to honor an African-American writer and activist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMDavid Greenspan’s all-Stein solo show at the Connelly Theater consists of two lectures, one poem and a string of insights from the years between the wars.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PMThis premiere of a stage musical based on the popular 1998 Drew Barrymore film features Christine Ebersole as the wicked stepmother, with direction and choreography by Kathleen Marshal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMRobert Wright’s play, based on the book by Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela, reveals the atrocities committed by the South African police forces during apartheid.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:40PMIn David Javerbaum’s show based on his book of the same title, God presides over his flock from a swooping white couch, like a celestial talk show host.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMDiane Davis stars in Melissa Ross’s comedy about a 38-year-old woman burdened by duty and yearning to break out of her routine.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55PMThe Off Broadway musical Power Balladz is a loving tribute to the heyday of the hair band, when Aqua Net ruled and MTV played videos.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMSometimes replacement casts in Broadway shows are an improvement over the originals.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Live Arts Festival in Philadelphia offers a play drawing parallels between 1865 and 2015, and another work that brings cardboard characters to life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThe Live Arts Festival in Philadelphia offers a play drawing parallels between 1865 and 2015, and another work that brings cardboard characters to life.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMFlorencia Lozano’s “underneathmybed” comes across as yet another raucous dysfunctional family play, Latin American style.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Bottom of the World,” Lucy Thurber’s drama about friendship, family and loss, does not live up to the Atlantic Theater Company’s first-class presentation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMDrama of a kind is not hard to find, but are the shows good theater?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMA man seeking vengeance murders priests who sexually abused boys in Owen O’Neill’s “Absolution,” from the Gúna Nua Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMA look at recent trends in Broadway theater re-christening, with the good news that Stephen Sondheim has gotten his due.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PM“Orange, Hat & Grace,” a romantic interplay between a middle-aged woman and a goofy young yokel, resembles an R-rated update of a Ma and Pa Kettle movie.
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