A young woman finds herself caught between her rich but abusive husband and her lesbian lover in Tanya Saracho’s new play “Mala Hierba.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMElia Kazan’s letters underscore his central importance in the maturing of American film and theater at midcentury.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:35AM“The Pianist of Willesden Lane,” at 59E59 Theaters, is about a Jewish girl who escapes Vienna on the kindertransport and finds refuge in music while living without her family in London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIt’s common to describe a talent as one of a kind or larger than life. And yet those words seem strictly accurate when applied to Elaine Stritch.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:22PM“Pump Boys and Dinettes,” a jubilant yet plaintive musical revue at City Center, is set in a filling station and coffee shop in the rural South.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PMThe quick closing of the Tupac Shakur musical, “Holler if Ya Hear Me,” prompts a critical assessment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:47PMIn the musical “Pageant,” all the contestants, played by men, vie for the title of Miss Glamouresse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe midcentury musical “Brigadoon,” set in a mystical Scottish town, has been given a first-class revival at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PM“The Qualms,” at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, is a ribald and funny if lightweight new play by Bruce Norris.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMSandra Oh, of “Grey’s Anatomy” fame, stars in a different kind of doctor drama in Ariel Dorfman’s “Death and the Maiden,” in Chicago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:27PM“Pageant” is a musical in which all the contestants in a beauty competition are played by men.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:34AM“Kaidan Chibusa no Enoki,” a Kabuki ghost story from the Heisei Nakamura-za company, is at the Lincoln Center Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:55PMThe City Center Encores! Off-Center series presents “Randy Newman’s Faust,” with the composer playing the Devil.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:09PMIn “The Muscles in Our Toes,” by Stephen Belber, friends plot a rescue mission for a friend held by terrorists.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMA father-son story is at the heart of Benjamin Scheuer’s one-man show, “The Lion,” from Manhattan Theater Club.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Tick, Tick ... Boom!” tells the story of Jonathan Larson, a composer whose work, most notably “Rent,” was lauded after his death at 35.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:01PMUnlike the Broadway original, a vivid new production of “Side Show” at the Kennedy Center endows the performers with stark physical deformities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMThe rapper Tupac Shakur inspired “Holler if Ya Hear Me,” a new Broadway musical with a vision of black life in urban America.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMReligious beliefs and contemporary life rub up against each other in Ayad Akhtar’s new play, “The Who & The What.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMDespite the teeth-baring title, the tone is mostly cool and considered in “Pat Kirkwood Is Angry,” a spellbinding cabaret show written by and starring the gifted singer Jessica Walker.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Who and the What,” part of Lincoln Center Theater’s LCT3 program, is the new play from Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize last year for “Disgraced.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:56AMNancy Harris’s “Our New Girl,” presented by the Atlantic Theater Company, is about a well-off London family with many domestic pressures.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMPaths cross and alliances are made in Cori Thomas’s “When January Feels Like Summer.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:40PMJim Dale’s one-man show, “Just Jim Dale,” revisits the highs and pratfalls of his long and varied career in show business.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMShakespeare’s late romance “The Tempest” itself undergoes a sea change in the inventive production of the play at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMTheater for a New Audience has revived Ionesco’s “The Killer,” in which an Everyman tries to track down the source of evil that is leaving people dead in an otherwise idyllic place.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe workers of a sandwich franchise try to keep the shop afloat after the owner mysteriously disappears in Bess Wohl’s new comedy, “American Hero.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe new show “Just Jim Dale” will feature the titular star alone onstage, supported only by the pianist Mark York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PMIn “The Few,” a new play by Samuel D. Hunter, a publication editor and her eagerly awkward assistant react differently to the arrival of an old friend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PM“Irma La Douce” brings the City Center Encores! season to a close, with Jennifer Bowles in the title role and Rob McClure as the young law student who adores her.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:50PMA theater critic of The New York Times makes his Tony Award choices.
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