“The Flick,” Annie Baker’s new work at Playwrights Horizons, focuses on the lives of three workers at a film theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMDominique Morisseau’s “Detroit ’67,” at the Public Theater, sets its story of a fraying relationship between an adult brother and sister in a vividly specific place.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Neva” is a Guillermo Calderón play set in 1905 Russia and centering on Chekhov’s widow, Olga Knipper.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe life and career of Ann Richards, the onetime governor of Texas, are being given a ticker tape parade on the stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMA vice principal relentlessly grills an Arab-American student in Rajiv Joseph’s drama “The North Pool.” But why?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMDanny Burstein and Sarah Paulson star in the Roundabout’s revival of “Talley’s Folly,” Lanford Wilson’s romantic comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PM“Old Hats” is an ebullient new show from the veteran stage clowns Bill Irwin and David Shiner.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe New York Philharmonic is presenting a concert version of Rodgers and Hammerstein’s “Carousel,” which is as gorgeously sung a production of this Broadway musical as you are ever lik…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:30PMEmma Rice’s “Wild Bride,” a retelling of a Grimm fairy tale, takes place in a setting evoking the American South and the Great Depression.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:01PMIn inspired hands the most unbeautiful, sometimes maddeningly hazy and imprecise language can take on a distinct and surprising appeal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:43PMThe Signature Theater Company’s revival of “The Dance and the Railroad” exposes the thinness of this 1981 drama by David Henry Hwang.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Isaac’s Eye,” by Lucas Hnath, imagines Isaac Newton as an ambitious young man hoping to win admission to the Royal Society.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:37PM“Hands on a Hardbody” and “Kinky Boots,” musicals with working-class themes, will both be setting up shop on Broadway this spring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMTwo productions in Chicago, “Teddy Ferrara” and “columbinus,” exemplifies the challenges that playwrights face when they draw on a specific real-life events.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:22PMThe Theater for a New Audience’s production of “Much Ado About Nothing” features the British actor Jonathan Cake in a stylish performance as Benedick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“The Laramie Project Cycle” is a two-part production about the killing of a gay man, Matthew Shepard, in Wyoming in 1998.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:01PMIn the last couple of seasons the New York theater has taken its love affair with its own past to perverse new extremes by trying to resurrect notorious flops.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:41PMIn “Luck of the Irish, ” tensions rise when an Irish family, which was paid to buy a house in an all-white Boston neighborhood for a black family in the 1950s, comes back to claim the ho…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMChythia Hopkins’s latest piece, “This Clement World,” includes original songs and video footage that she shot during a three-week Arctic expedition.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:17PMTaylor Mac and Lisa Kron are among the cast of the Foundry Theater’s production of Brecht’s “Good Person of Szechwan,” at La MaMa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:35PMIn 1983 it opened and closed on the same night. Now “Moose Murders,” the most famous flop in Broadway history, has returned in a revised version.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMIn “The Vandal,” by Hamish Linklater, the characters contemplate life, death and Cool Ranch Doritos.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMNature Theater of Oklahoma's "Life and Times" reminds one critic that verbatim conversation on stage can offer its own distinctive pleasures.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:05PMAt the Huntington Theater in Boston, staging Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man,” about a young black man trying to navigate a racist world, proves to be a challenging task.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:57PM“The House of Von Macramé” is a microbudget slasher movie spoof set in the backbiting world of fashion.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PM“The Jammer,” by Rolin Jones, follows a young man as he follows his dreams to the roller derby.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PM“Life and Times: Episodes 1-4,” a postmodern pop opera from the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, is an eight-hour epic journey of a young woman’s life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMAmerica Ferrera stars in “Bethany,” a Laura Marks play that uses the economic downturn as a major part of the plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Hamlet, Prince of Grief,” in the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, is a 30-minute, one-person version of “Hamlet” presented by the Leev Theater Group of Iran.
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