A critic’s picks in a hard-to-predict Broadway year, plus nods to shows from Off Broadway and other, odder corners.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMThe Tony nominations spread the wealth among many worthy (and a few unworthy) productions, as if to salute them for arriving at all.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMAlice Childress’s 1962 play about interracial love and hate gets its first major New York revival in 50 years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMSamuel D. Hunter’s heartbreaking new play argues for hope even in the face of extreme disappointment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07PMDaniel Craig and Ruth Negga star in Sam Gold’s oddly uneasy take on the Scottish play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PMSeven female farceurs bring Selina Fillinger’s new Broadway comedy about the president’s protectors to life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMBeanie Feldstein stars as the comic Fanny Brice in the show’s return after almost 60 years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMMartin McDonagh’s rollicking comedy about capital punishment, now on Broadway, feels like a perfect fit for our unjust times.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMIn Tracy Letts’s new play, a tedious City Council meeting cracks open to reveal the secret record of what happened in Big Cherry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMSam Rockwell, Laurence Fishburne and Darren Criss star in an electric revival of the David Mamet play about capitalism in a junk shop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMJames McAvoy gives a ravishing performance, without benefit of prosthetics or props, in a new adaptation alive with the love of language.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12PMPut three gay frenemies in a Palm Springs Airbnb and what happens? In JC Lee’s new comedy, not enough.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36PMRichard Greenberg’s 2002 play about baseball and homophobia gets a fine revival starring Jesse Williams and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMIn a new musical starring Joaquina Kalukango, the love between Black and Irish New Yorkers in a Manhattan bar is threatened by Civil War riots.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMThe Builders Association explores the world of turkers, workers performing thousands of weird, low-paying tasks for an online giant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMHeather Christian’s rapturous new music-theater work turns a tiny amphitheater into a vast cathedral of sound.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33PMMatthew Broderick and Sarah Jessica Parker star in a Neil Simon comedy that no longer feels very funny.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMA trenchant new comedy by Bryna Turner features Mary Wiseman in a comic tour-de-force as the guest most likely to make a scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMWhen their body parts start falling off, two women go on a spiritual journey with an Oprah-esque guru in Charly Evon Simpson’s new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMIn a rich new play by Sanaz Toossi, four Iranians and their language teacher find second selves in a second tongue.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMNew productions of American plays that debuted between 1942 and 2002 offer glimpses into the world in which they first emerged — and into ours.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36AMA new musical imagines the invention of a decolorizing process. Will it save Black Americans from hatred or destroy them?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMSutton Foster also stars in this neat, perky, overly cautious Broadway revival of a musical that needs to be more of a con.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThe Encores! series returns with a 1983 musical that, despite its pleasures, wasn’t quite right then and isn’t quite right now.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMA new jukebox musical tells the story of Michael Jackson. Except for the big story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMLynn Nottage’s play about a Black woman in 1905 becomes an opera, with music by Ricky Ian Gordon, that forefronts voices ignored by history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMDominique Morisseau’s 2016 play, now on Broadway, is a swift, well-crafted look at factory workers trapped in an economic “dumpster fire.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33PMThe Eugene O’Neill classic, set in 1912, is just as powerful in Robert O’Hara’s revival, set in our own age of disease and lockdown.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33PMExcellent performances, including one by a well-behaved dog, warm up two experimental plays upstate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMTaking Lily Tomlin’s roles in a revival of Jane Wagner’s metaphysical comedy, the “Saturday Night Live” star is put through her paces.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:33PMTwo critics on the joys (and pains) of a tentatively hopeful fall season.
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