The play, based on the story of Buddy Bolden, a cornetist who is said to be one of jazz’s founders, is equal parts theater, concert and dance party.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36PMKaneza Schaal’s experimental theater work has three sections and is paired with an installation featuring paintings and videos of the show’s inspirations.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:30PMThaddeus Phillips’s genial show retreats every time things get sticky or uncomfortable.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMWith the theater made up to resemble a nomadic tent, audience members sit on cushions, couches and bean bags, while the actors roam about the space.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:59PMAaron Posner’s bitingly funny, unexpectedly touching play is “sort of adapted from ‘Uncle Vanya.’”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:03PMA harebrained scheme ends in comic confusion in Theo Love’s goofy documentary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00AMWilly Holtzman’s play, with the storytelling quality of PowerPoint, offers a biography of Judy Holliday, an award-winning actress who died young.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMNiegel Smith’s revival of Thomas Bradshaw’s 2008 play is presented at the Flea Theater by a cast made up of people of color, and with a new ending.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMA troupe that specializes in “junk spectaculars” turns to McGuffey readers — and peanut butter — in a show that explores schooling and humiliation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThe first draft of Deb Margolin’s play pitted Bernie Madoff against Elie Wiesel. The current version gives her freedom to embellish.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:09AMThe Mint Theater Company brought back Elizabeth Baker’s drama from 1913 as part of a project dedicated to the British playwright.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:02AMHigh schoolers, jump scares and songs are a tantalizing mix. But Preston Max Allen’s meandering show squanders a promising concept.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00PMThere are plenty of earworms in this jukebox musical about Peter Noone of Herman’s Hermits, but the hackneyed love-triangle story lowers the volume.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMThe French actress has five films coming out in 2019, including one while she stars in Florian Zeller’s play “The Mother” at Atlantic Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48AMThe show, written and directed by Paul Calderon, begins intensely and continues on a harrowing, one-way trip to hell.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMIn the world described in Ivan Ayr’s debut feature, men casually assume they are entitled to say or do whatever they want to women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMK. Lorrel Manning takes on racism, homophobia, sexism, police violence and immigration in nine short plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMThe festival, presented by St. Louis Actors’ Studio, comprises three one-act plays by Mr. LaBute: “Great Negro Works of Art,” “The Fourth Reich” and “Unlikely Japan.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMStarted in 2016, the three-day expo provides singalongs, meetups, workshops and, of course, “marketplace” booths targeting theater buffs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMVisionary stylist or one-trick pony? With “Network” on Broadway and “All About Eve” on the horizon, the multimedia-mad stage director is ready for his close-up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24AMGracie Gardner’s “Cowboy,” which runs from six to 20 minutes, is part of a triple bill: “I just love having a single visual image onstage,” she said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMPeter Mills Weiss and his collaborator, Julia Mounsey, put the audience on edge with the simplest of theatrical tools.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMA musical must have a minimum of internal logic and some good tunes. “Christmas in Hell” comes up short on both counts.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMRuben Studdard and Clay Aiken, who once competed on “American Idol,” banter, sing and try to upstage each other in this holiday revue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMAdjani’s turn as a flamboyant con artist sends up her own aloof image in this fun and sophisticated comic caper from Romain Gavras.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMThe playwright Mike Gorman tries to equate Melville’s “Moby-Dick” with the opioid crisis. The ambition is there, but the play falls short.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMScott Aiello’s play about an Italian-American family dealing with a disabled daughter offers no-nonsense American realism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMIdris Goodwin’s energetic but overstuffed play explores race, gender, police brutality and the quest for fame.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMRadio City Music Hall successfully merges old-fashioned showmanship and state-of-the-art technology in this year’s Christmas pageant.
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