“The Happiest Song Plays Last,” the third in a trilogy of plays by Quiara Alegría Hudes, is a diffuse but warm-blooded drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMA fractious family stages an uncanny disappearing act in “The Open House,” Will Eno’s new play, at Signature Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMSarah Ruhl’s “Stage Kiss” is a scattered but lively blend of romantic comedy and backstage farce.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAlexandra Silber plays the blinkered heroine at the center of the solo musical “Arlington.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Kung Fu,” the new play about Bruce Lee by David Henry Hwang, never achieves the fluid grace in its dialogue and dramaturgy that it does in its action sequences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMPersonalities based on real people (Moss Hart, Lyndon B. Johnson) and imagination (Violet, Hedwig) add psychological complexity to the Broadway season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:08PMNina Arianda makes a most welcome return to the stage this spring in David Grimm’s “Tales From Red Vienna.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:05PMIn Ken Urban’s drama “The Correspondent,” a widower’s wife returns in the body of a man.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:15PMThe Roundabout Theater revives “Dinner With Friends,” Donald Margulies’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about two married couples suffering from changes in marriage and friendship. …
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA potent premise fails to deliver the goods in “A Great Wilderness,” the frustratingly limp new drama by Samuel D. Hunter, having its premiere at Seattle Repertory Theater. &n…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PM“Luna Gale,” a Rebecca Gilman play getting its premiere at the Goodman Theater in Chicago, takes on the knotty issues facing child services in the case of parents with drug addictions.&n…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:50PMEric Simonson’s “Bronx Bombers,” at Circle in the Square Theater, focuses on Yogi Berra and the 1977 New York Yankees, then brings in stars of other eras as well. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“I Call My Brothers,” by the Swedish playwright Jonas Hassen Khemiri, sends an Arab-American to Times Square soon after suspicious explosions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMIn the immersive tradition of “Sleep No More” comes “Queen of the Night,” an interactive experience including acrobatic acts, striptease, physical contact and lavish dining. &nb…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMFour Houstonians are pulled back to nature in surprising ways in “Cherokee,” Lisa D’Amour’s new play, having its premiere at the Wilma Theater in Philadelphia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMThe Classic Stage Company’s “A Man’s a Man” is a hard-working though uninvolving production of this early work by Bertolt Brecht.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Stop Hitting Yourself,” created by the Texas ensemble Rude Mechs, brings lots of tacky glitter to Lincoln Center along with ethical questions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMJessica Dickey’s “Row After Row” tells the story of three Civil War re-enactors in Gettysburg.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMIn John Patrick Shanley’s “Outside Mullingar,” an Irish father and son and their neighbors, consider questions of life, death, love and the family farm.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMFollowing in the footsteps of the Metropolitan Opera, theater producers are weighing the potential risks and rewards of HD broadcasts in movie theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:30PMIn the new adaptation of “The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner,” blacks and immigrants in Britain face the barriers that a white lower class did in the 1950s. &nbs…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:23PM“Stop Hitting Yourself” views “late-stage capitalism” through the prism of the Busby Berkeley musicals of the 1930s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:47PMLunacy is presented with a poker face in a revival of “Loot,” Joe Orton’s farce directed by Jesse Berger at the Lucille Lortel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMIn “Grounded,” a one-woman show starring Hannah Cabell at Walkerspace, a military pilot is reassigned to drone duty, operating deadly missions from a base outside Las Vegas. &…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:51PMJohn Hodgman, best known for this geeky “Daily Show” persona, brings a one-man show in the Under the Radar Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:01PMIn “Brand New Ancients,” part of the Under the Radar festival, Kate Tempest looks for majesty and mystery in ordinary lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:43PMPart of the Under the Radar Festival, “The Record,” a dance-theater piece at the Public Theater, calls reverent attention to the shared experience of the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54PMThe experimental designer and director Jay Scheib is offering audiences two ways to view his raucous contemporary rewrite of an unfinished early Chekhov play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMReid Farrington splices together video footage and live performance to produce a theoretical matchup of Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali in “Tyson vs. Ali.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:16PMFrom the Off Broadway musical “Fun Home” to the star-crossed “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” Times writers offer a few last-minute theater picks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMWordPlay Shakespeare and other programs allow readers to watch or listen to sections of his works as they view the text.
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