
Maria Friedman's rethinking of the much-loved, much-monkeyed-with 1981 Sondheim-Furth flop gets very close to coherence, and all the way to enjoyable.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PM[SHARE]A Broadway musical version of the Billy Wilder film finds exhilarating new ways to make the gender comedy sing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PM[SHARE]Audra McDonald stars in Adrienne Kennedy's 1991 play about the worst imaginable crime and the world that made it inevitable.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PM[SHARE]The worldwide sensation and American-style musical theater form an awkward alliance onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]Shakespeare's tragedy becomes a girl-power romp in a cotton candy jukebox musical, featuring songs by the Swedish hitmaker Max Martin.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:03PM[SHARE]The lure of fascism comes disguised as adolescent romance in Bess Wohl's disturbing new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]The season's most moving new musical earns its place among the behemoths of Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PM[SHARE]The new Kate Nash dance musical, choreographed by Andy Blankenbuehler, is spectacular as long as you pay no attention to what it's saying.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06PM[SHARE]In a new Off Broadway play, Linda Lavin shines as a woman paid to say what an ailing young man cannot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PM[SHARE]Cameron Crowe's 2000 film, set in the world of bands and groupies, does not survive its Broadway musical transplant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PM[SHARE]In a revival of the 2002 musical "A Man of No Importance," the star of "The Big Bang Theory" achieves something more delicate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33PM[SHARE]Off Broadway at the Shed, Ralph Fiennes is glorious in David Hare's sputtering portrait of the man who paved New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33PM[SHARE]Lorraine Hansberry's 1959 classic ends on a note of cautious optimism. Its latest incarnation, at the Public Theater, does not.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07PM[SHARE]A latter-day Lincoln and Booth try to survive the American dream in a hilarious, harrowing and superbly acted Broadway revival of the Suzan-Lori Parks play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PM[SHARE]She performed without sentimentality or histrionics, embodying the full range of human joy and depravity while remaining professional and approachable.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PM[SHARE]Wendell Pierce and Sharon D Clarke star in a powerful revival of Arthur Miller's drama, led by a Black cast.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:13PM[SHARE]A revival of the musical about the Declaration of Independence underlines the gender imbalance among the Founding Fathers " and everything else.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PM[SHARE]The Viennese Jewish family at the heart of this new Broadway production thinks it is too assimilated to be in danger when the Nazis arrive. They are wrong.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PM[SHARE]An imaginary electronic conversation between the two playwrights falls somewhere between a â¤ï¸ and a 🤷.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07AM[SHARE]The "Glee" star is stupendous in the role Barbra Streisand made famous, turning the 1964 musical into something better than we know it to be.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PM[SHARE]Behind every new New York season are a lot of wannabes, also-rans and hopeless cases to keep track of.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AM[SHARE]We can no longer ignore the theater's systemic inequities. But leaving them behind may remake the industry in unexpected ways.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AM[SHARE]Barrington Stage Company offers a take on the Sondheim-Wheeler classic highlighted by performances in shades of regret.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PM[SHARE]In this excerpt from "Shy: The Alarmingly Outspoken Memoirs of Mary Rodgers," a Broadway musical is born at a summer camp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AM[SHARE]At the Stratford and the Shaw theater festivals, four heated classics get cool new productions for summer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]The requirements of the theater, and the constant physical and emotional risks facing performers, have many demanding their basic needs as humans.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00AM[SHARE]The Stratford Festival in Ontario opened a glamorous new theater last month that prioritizes the theater itself, not just what surrounds it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:07AM[SHARE]At Shakespeare in the Park, athletic stamina and action-hero charisma muddy the meaning of a play about disability.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PM[SHARE]At Shakespeare in the Park, athletic stamina and Marvel charisma muddy the meaning of a play about disability.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AM[SHARE]Frank talk about salaries and the end of unpaid internships are positive steps, but the cost may be fewer opportunities to learn the ropes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AM[SHARE]In a strange and beautiful new play by Will Arbery, finding happiness is a process of failing upward.
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