James Acaster's "Cold Lasagne Hate Myself 1999" is an outstanding show about the worst year in his life. (His girlfriend left him for Mr. Bean, and it went downhill from there.)
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:13PM[SHARE]Crowds can be mindless, even dangerous. But that feeling of losing yourself as you experience art together hasn't been replicated since live entertainment went online.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AM[SHARE]We asked the scene partners Louis Kornfeld and Rick Andrews to walk us through their thought processes as they ad-libbed a double date.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AM[SHARE]Three rising comics share an aesthetic that marries crass physical humor with disarmingly sexual themes. They're unsettling and hilarious.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PM[SHARE]A fascinating love letter to "Fiddler on the Roof" asks: What makes the quintessentially Jewish musical speak to everyone?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24AM[SHARE]The comic hasn't adjusted his material for the setting: he's still defending wealthy, famous peers and joking about transgender targets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PM[SHARE]Jacqueline Novak is poised for a breakout with "Get on Your Knees," a new one-woman show Off Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:03AM[SHARE]"I Think You Should Leave," starring Tim Robinson, takes absurd premises to unpredictable places.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:35PM[SHARE]The new Michael Riedel column on Beetlejuice is a subtext-rich doozy. Time for a new Reidel translator.
SOURCE: Twitter at 07:12PM[SHARE]In a loose-knit scene packing audiences into intimate New York spaces, comedians are getting big laughs with original songs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]Visionary 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 04:24AM[SHARE]This anarchic, unhinged 30-ish comedian with a demented weekly cable access show also pulls stunts for a podcast, including marrying a Tide bottle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:45PM[SHARE]The Australian stand-up Hannah Gadsby examines a culture that excuses abuse and takes on comedy's pieties. Laughter is not good medicine, in her view.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:10PM[SHARE]In a rambling but dramatic and fascinating performance in Dublin, the comic addressed the fallout from her widely condemned Trump photo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PM[SHARE]The experimental theater company stages the Bard's enigmatic "Measure for Measure" at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48AM[SHARE]On the wings of his Netflix comedy special, "Staying Alive," Mr. Morgan closes a stint at the comedy club with more of his near-death experience quipping.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:12AM[SHARE]These two outsider comedians haven't exactly gone mainstream, but they've had an outsize impact on communications from liquor ads to "Portlandia."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32PM[SHARE]This Park Slope venue was shut down after a fire in March, but it has a strong slate of stand-up the week it reopens.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PM[SHARE]Meghan Kennedy's new play focuses on Italian parents and their three daughters growing up in Park Slope, Brooklyn, in 1960.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PM[SHARE]Lane Moore's shows involve real men on the dating app, but she works hard to avoid mocking them. The result is a clever show that's deservedly a hit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PM[SHARE]The dissembling liar at the center of Broadway hit Dear Evan Hansen. The hit Broadway musical is testament to the power of skillfully crafted art to obscure moral concerns.
SOURCE: Slate at 08:44PM[SHARE]The Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Robert Schenkkan focuses on a near future with New York under martial law.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PM[SHARE]This Pulitzer-winning playwright's 1996 work, about a 19th-century star of English freak shows, will be directed by Lear deBessonet, an Obie winner.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24AM[SHARE]Does Lillian Hellman rank alongside Tennessee Williams and Arthur Miller?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03PM[SHARE]Yes, the three-ring circus can seem like a relic. But something irreplaceable will be lost when this tent is closed for good.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PM[SHARE]The Debate Society presents a world premiere based on events at the 1893 World's Fair in Chicago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AM[SHARE]This theater's $2 ticket increase is a similar response to market pressures that eventually sent some Off Broadway prices into the stratosphere.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PM[SHARE]Steven Levenson, who wrote "Dear Evan Hansen," now has a play Off Broadway, "If I Forget."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AM[SHARE]The play, directed by Ruben Santiago-Hudson, focuses on a father-son relationship in a story about gypsy-cab drivers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:04PM[SHARE]Whether they were talking about a wife or a parent, comedians confronted the seemingly taboo subject in stark terms that made us laugh " and think.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PM[SHARE]Jake Broder brings back a cult comedian in the solo show "His Royal Hipness Lord Buckley."
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