A theater critic of The New York Times makes his Tony Award choices.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AM“Violet,” “A Gentleman’s Guide to Love & Murder,” “The Realistic Joneses” and “Twelfth Night/Richard III”: Broadway can still surprise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:40AM“The City of Conversation,” Anthony Giardina’s new play at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, charts the rise of partisan politics in Washington through the lens of a socialite.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Red-Eye to Havre de Grace” finds Edgar Allan Poe near the end of his life, short of money, on an exhausting speaking tour and on the wrong train.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAdventurous producers shouldn't be dissuaded by the "ostentatious snubbing" of Will Eno's challenging play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:58AMIn the “The Substance of Fire” at the Second Stage Theater, a family of publishers fights over printing academic books versus sexy novels.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Great Immensity,” at the Public Theater, features some hilariously depressing tunes about the dire state of the world and its beleaguered creatures.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Velocity of Autumn,” starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, is a wispy but amiable comedy-drama about the ravages of getting older.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMSharr White’s new play, “Annapurna,” often feels like a scruffier version of a Lifetime television movie about love gone wrong.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMKirk Lynn’s play “Your Mother’s Copy of the Kama Sutra” involves an unusual yearlong test on the way to a marriage that might or might not happen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe terrific, heart-stirring revival of “Violet” stars Sutton Foster in a career-redefining performance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Great Immensity” asks the big-time question of whether man can change his destructive ways before the planet goes kablooey.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:32PM“Lady Day at Emerson’s Bar and Grill,” starring Audra McDonald, takes place in the months before Billie Holiday died, set in a city that she had reason to loathe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “The Shadow of the Hummingbird,” at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, Athol Fugard performs in one of his own plays for the first time in 15 years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PM“The Heir Apparent,” adapted by David Ives from the early-18th-century French comedy, is slangy, scatological and very heady, but with the reliable rhythms of a minuet.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Most Deserving,” Catherine Trieschmann’s new comedy at City Center, pokes fun at the absurdities and pretensions of the arts grant industry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe new production of “The Threepenny Opera,” at the Atlantic Theater Company, stars F. Murray Abraham, Laura Osnes, Michael Park and Mary Beth Peil.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn Will Eno’s “The Realistic Joneses,” two couples, both named Jones, get to know one another amid fear, loneliness and unspoken love in a small town near the mountains.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAt the 38th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays, five full-length plays highlighted storytelling, be they fantastical, historical or ripped from the headlines. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PM“A Second Chance” is a show about two life-bruised, middle-aged New Yorkers trying to heal themselves.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Don Juan Comes Home From Iraq,” at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia, Paula Vogel plays with time and surrealism in describing a Marine’s troubled return from war. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:10PMWith “These Paper Bullets!,” Rolin Jones and Billie Joe Armstrong have broadly adapted Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing” into a tale of the mod British rock scene of the 1960s…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMDick Cavett plays himself in “Hellman v. McCarthy,” Brian Richard Mori’s dramatic reconsideration of the Lillian Hellman and Mary McCarthy feud and lawsuit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Les Misérables,” the stage adaptation of Victor Hugo’s novel, returns to Broadway to capitalize on the popularity of the recent movie version.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Broadway version of “Aladdin” sticks to the movie’s formula, but also infuses the conventions of the genre with a breezy insouciance that scrubs away some of the material’s bland…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe famous late-20th-century feud between Mary McCarthy and Lillian Hellman will be stirred up again with “Hellman v. McCarthy,” a new play by Brian Richard Mori.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:26PMIn the terrific, scary-funny play “Hand to God,” Steven Boyer is a teenager whose puppetry skills turn into a negative.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMBryan Cranston stars in “All the Way,” about President Lyndon B. Johnson’s push for the Civil Rights Act.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA concert staging of “Sweeney Todd” stars the opera bass-baritone Bryn Terfel as the bloodthirsty barber and the Oscar-winning Emma Thompson as his adoring helpmate. &nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMThe release of an audio recording of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” with the original Broadway cast pulls back the curtain on one of the seminal theatrical events of the 20th centur…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:15PM“The Happiest Song Plays Last,” the third in a trilogy of plays by Quiara Alegría Hudes, is a diffuse but warm-blooded drama.
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