“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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PMIn “Ruff” Peggy Shaw ruminates on life before and after her stroke, investigating the workings of her mind and memory in an impressionistic monologue that’s admirably unsentimental.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:41PM“C’est du Chinois,” part of the Under the Radar festival, is a no-frills, no-drama production: 80 minutes of energetic language instruction, performed by a (fictional) family from Shan…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Water by the Spoonful,” the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara Alegría Hudes, at the Second Stage Theater, is a moving collage of lives in crisis.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMTheater made "Les Misérables" part of the canon of the most successful musicals. What has film done with the screen version?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:53PM“Nothing to Hide,” “Coney Island Christmas” and “Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots” each involve make-believe at varying levels of sophistication.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMIn “The Great God Pan,” by Amy Herzog, a man’s existence is upended by the suggestion that he is a victim of childhood sexual abuse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe new revival illustrates the problem with importing English productions, and depending on celebrity casting, for Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:26PMMelissa James Gibson’s new play, “What Rhymes With America,” is a touching, sorrowful comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMOnstage in 2012 there were sidesplitting comedies and rich dramas but not many exceptional musicals.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:47PMIn Robert Askins’s “P. S. Jones and the Frozen City,” the protagonist has heroic dreams in a postapocalyptic world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:26PM“Dear Elizabeth” distills hundreds of letters between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop into a play at the Yale Repertory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:49PMKathleen Turner plays the leading role and directs the 1964 play “The Killing of Sister George” at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PMLincoln Center Theater’s blistering production of Clifford Odets’s “Golden Boy,” directed by Bartlett Sher, features a superb cast of almost 20 actors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMIn “Golden Age,” Terrence McNally’s latest play, he sets the action on the opening night of Bellini’s opera “I Puritani,” in Paris in 1835.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:50PM“A Civil War Christmas,” by Paula Vogel, sets history as a backdrop to human dramas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:49PMBy the time it closes, "Glengarry Glen Ross" will have played a full half of its run without having to face any official critical scrutiny.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:49PM“A Christmas Story,” based on the popular 1983 movie and set in Indiana in 1940, glows with sepia-toned nostalgia for a Simpler Time.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMTheater tickets can be as expensive as they are popular, but there are lower-priced options.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PM“The Twenty-Seventh Man” is Nathan Englander’s stage adaptation of his own short story about the fate that befalls a group of Jewish writers in Russia during Stalin’s rule.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThe Signature Theater’s revival of August Wilson’s “Piano Lesson” brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theater can be.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“We Are Proud to Present a Presentation,” at SoHo Rep, puts the audience square in the middle of deliberations over how to put on this play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:11PM“Donka: A Letter to Chekhov,” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is a theatrical curio that might have made Chekhov smile. But that may be the only real relationship it has with that grea…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PM“Scandalous” tells the story of Aimee Semple McPherson, a celebrity preacher in the 1920s and ’30s who helped lay the foundations on which the modern evangelical movement was built.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMGretchen Mol stars as the title character in “The Good Mother,” a new play by Francine Volpe at the Acorn Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMA revival of “The Mystery of Edwin Drood” at Studio 54 offers a chance to play detective and enjoy a cast, including Chita Rivera, that throws itself into the winking spirit of the show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PMIn “Golden Child,” a rural Chinese household’s fragile equilibrium, kept in place by tradition, is threatened when a husband returns from abroad with new ideas.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PM“Emotional Creature,” written by Eve Ensler, uses monologues and other devices to explore the complexity of girls and young women worldwide.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00PMThere may be no more startling image on a New York stage right now than the one greeting audiences at Playwrights Horizons when the lights go up on “The Whale,” an affecting new drama by…
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