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Saturday, September 13, 2025

In ‘Hedda,’ Tessa Thompson Puts a Sexy, Messy Spin on the ‘Female Hamlet’ by Leah Greenblatt and Thea Traff

Have you ever seen Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” set in the 1950s with a biracial star in a lesbian love triangle? In this new film adaptation, you will.

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CREDITORS        Orange Tree Theatre , Richmond by Libby Purves and Friends

NORDIC , NOIR, NEUROTIC       In a hotel room, sea  uneasy beyond and faint wind howling, dishevelled Adolf with his crutch listens to his smooth, confident new friend Gustaf. He   show…

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Wednesday, September 10, 2025

THE LAST STAND OF MARY WHITEHOUSE Nottingham Playhouse by Libby Purves and Friends

AWKWARD CHRISTIAN SOLDIER      The curtain is a marvel to start with: its plasticky-floral cosiness taking you straight to a 1970s kitchenette and the heyday of Mrs W’s mission to gathe…

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Doechii, Denim and the Ecstatic Dance Vision of Robbie Blue by Gia Kourlas and Ok McCausland

The wild grandeur of a choreographer just starting out is a breath of fresh air. It’s no secret. Blue just picked up an Emmy and an MTV Video Music Award.

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‘Saturday Church’ Puts House Music, Gospel, Sia and ‘Noisy Singers’ Together by Elisabeth Vincentelli and Mohamed Sadek

“Saturday Church” taps into music from several genres, as well as Sia, to tell the story of a teenager struggling with his sexuality and faith.

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Doechii, Denim and the Ecstatic Dance Vision of Robbie Blue by Gia Kourlas and Ok McCausland

The wild grandeur of a choreographer just starting out is a breath of fresh air. It’s no secret. Blue just picked up an Emmy and a Video Music Award.

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Tuesday, September 9, 2025

PATIENCE Wilton’s Music Hall E1 by Libby Purves and Friends

EMPYREAN ENTERTAINMENT; CLUTCH IT TO YOUR FAINTING BOSOM NOW!    It should be on prescription,   so healing of life’s frustrations is this  Charles Court Opera revival of Gilbert and S…

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Saturday, September 6, 2025

Trajal Harrell on Staging a Runway Show at the Park Avenue Armory by Gia Kourlas and Thea Traff

The choreographer takes over the Park Avenue Armory with “Monkey Off My Back or the Cat’s Meow,” a spectacle that honors the power of being together.

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Friday, September 5, 2025

Anthony Roth Costanzo Wears Maria Callas’s Heels in ‘Galas’ by Joshua Barone and Landon Nordeman

At Little Island, the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo is starring, and singing, in Charles Ludlam’s “Galas,” a love letter to Callas.

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HAYWIRE Barn Theatre, Cirencester by Libby Purves and Friends

AMBRIDGE OVER SLIGHTLY TROUBLED WATER   Tim Stimpson is a long-serving modern writer on Radio 4’s  The Archers, and loves it:   so his play is about the dawning, 75 years ago,   of thi…

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Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter Are Ready for ‘Godot’ by Melena Ryzik and Dana Scruggs

After years of training (clowning, Butoh and more), the longtime friends take on Samuel Beckett’s towering drama on Broadway.

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Thursday, September 4, 2025

Chie Hammons’s Hudson Valley Dance Studio by Jason Chen and Angela Hau

The artist Chie Hammons’s Hudson Valley space also has circular walls and a skylight that acts like a sundial.

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10 Things We’re Excited About This Fall by Dwight Garner, Jesse Green, Alexandra Jacobs, Gia Kourlas, Alex Marshall, Melena Ryzik, Maya Salam, Jennifer Szalai, Alissa Wilkinson and Jason Zinoman

Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.

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Wednesday, September 3, 2025

An Off Broadway Homecoming for Tarell Alvin McCraney and André Holland by Brittani Samuel and Roger Kisby

“The Brothers Size” at the Shed is speaking to a new generation of audiences. “Unfortunately, parts of the plays are still relevant,” McCraney said.

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With ‘Color Theories,’ Julio Torres Throws Shades by Alexis Soloski and David Billet

In his first Off Broadway play, the artist and comedian behind “Fantasmas” and “Problemista” is bringing audiences into his off-kilter world.

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BORN WITH TEETH Wyndhams, CX Road by Libby Purves and Friends

POETIC PASSIONS IN A TUDOR POLICE STATE     Here’s a lively aquib from the RSC, a bravura 85 minute two-hander about Christopher Marlowe –  dead at 29 in a Deptford tavern brawl – a…

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Sunday, August 31, 2025

What’s Loud, Pink and Drawing New Yorkers Together? by James Thomas and Amir Hamja

With his Karlala Soundsystem, Karl Scholz is using nightclub-grade audio to ensure that neighbors gather.

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Friday, August 29, 2025

A New ‘Pericles’ Pairs Shakespeare With Black Gospel by Derrick Bryson Taylor and Elias Williams

The wandering prince of the title sings in this version from the Public Theater’s Public Works, with a cast of everyday New Yorkers and stars like Denée Benton.

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THE GATHERED LEAVES Park Theatre by Libby Purves and Friends

A MODERN CHEKHOVIAN PLAY, BEAUTIFUL     The first thoughts that steuck me on leaving Andrew Keatley’s well-made, slightly old fashioned family drama were that a lesser playwright would h…

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JUNIPER BLOOD Donmar WC by Libby Purves and Friends

BACK TO THE LAND         Birdsong, a grassy bank. At a rough rustic table sits a rough rustic:  bearded, silent, rolling fags and contemplating a broken tractor part.   Into this Thoma…

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Thursday, August 28, 2025

Susan Sarandon, Whoopi Goldberg and Caliban’s take on The Tempest: the best theatre, comedy and dance of autumn 2025 by Arifa Akbar, Brian Logan and Lyndsey Winship

Andrea Riseborough and Sarandon deliver a decade-hopping drama, superstar standups hit the road and Shobana Jeyasingh rewrites Shakespeare • See the rest of our unmissable autumn arts prev…

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Austria’s Hills Are Still Alive, 60 Years Later by Jim Tankersley and Laetitia Vançon

In Salzburg, an anniversary of “The Sound of Music” looks grand through a child’s eyes, even if the locals are gazing elsewhere.

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Thursday, August 21, 2025

At the Rockaway Beach Sessions, a New York City Dance by Gia Kourlas and Thea Traff

The choreographer Kim Brandt brings “Wayward,” an expansive new dance, to Rockaway (the beach and the town) as this part of Beach Sessions.

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Wednesday, August 20, 2025

The Lambs Sing a Melancholy Song by Alex Vadukul and Jutharat Pinyodoonyachet

The nation’s longest-running theatrical club toasts its old Manhattan home before moving to a new place.

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In the Intimate ‘Arborlogues,’ You Perform for a Tree by Joey Sims and Shuran Huang For The New York Times

“You don’t need to make the giant, multimillion dollar thing to have an impact,” said Dan Daly, a co-creator of the climate-themed “Arborlogues.”

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Monday, August 18, 2025

Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber: A Partnership of Passionate Choreographers by Margaret Fuhrer and Erik Tanner

These are boom times for Bobbi Jene Smith and Or Schraiber, work and life partners who make dances of slippery intensity. Their latest, “Seven Scenes,” comes to Little Island.

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Friday, August 15, 2025

Rosie O’Donnell and Eating the Rich: 7 Buzzy Shows at Edinburgh Fringe by Alex Marshall, Houman Barekat and Jillian Rayfield

The shows that have gotten tongues wagging this year include stand-up gigs, character skits and a routine that ends with its performer covered in goo.

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Tuesday, August 12, 2025

You’ve Got Fan Mail: The Weird and Lovely Things Actors Get by Sarah Bahr and Amir Hamja

Joey Fatone, Michelle Williams and other actors share some of the declarations of admiration they’ve received during their runs onstage.

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Friday, August 8, 2025

A ROLE TO DIE FOR Marylebone Theatre NW1 by Libby Purves and Friends

A FAMILY BUSINESS AT SIXES AND 007s This little theatre has given us some strong meat lately – themes of Nazi crimes, Jewishness, Russianness – but this time it hosts the Barn theatre’…

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Wednesday, August 6, 2025

THE DAUGHTER OF TIME. Charing X Theatre by Libby Purves and Friends

A TRUE-CRIME RICARDIAN ROMCOM Here’s a wonderfully  1950s retro play,  not just in style and simplicity but in the willowy vintage-Harrods outfits of Rachel Pickup as the willowy Marta H…

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Tuesday, August 5, 2025

Upstaged by Raccoons? The Joys of Playing Shakespeare in Central Park. by Rachel Sherman and Sara Krulwich

‘You realize you’re being upstaged by an animal that’s completely unpredictable’: As the Delacorte Theater reopens, actors and others recall their favorite memories.

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