Two plays based on the autobiographical novels of Édouard Louis put the problem of violence against gay men in a larger social context.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMCity Center’s gala production of the 1979 Broadway musical gives our favorite fascist enabler a feminist makeover.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PMIn a new work far from Broadway, Jeremy O. Harris, the author of “Slave Play,” puts his body and soul on the line.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMTina Turner gets the bio-jukebox treatment, with all its lows (emaciated storytelling) and one of its peaks (a star-making performance from Adrienne Warren).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMIn a witty new play by Liza Birkenmeier, restless friends find themselves challenged by the first American woman in space.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMWhen “Macbeth” meets McDonald’s, a meaty new musical is born.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMWhen the former Edna Turnblad plays the feminist firebrand of the 1970s, there’s no dress but it’s still a drag.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:24PMGerard Alessandrini’s franchise was looking as long in the tooth as the shows it aimed to skewer. A new edition brings it back to hilarious life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMAdam Rapp’s play transfers to Broadway in a rivetingly dark and detailed production by David Cromer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMA musical adaptation of the popular fantasy novel comes to Broadway and goes to Hades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMA complex look at democracy from an Asian perspective turns “The King and I” inside out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54PMThis inaugural offering from the Coop squeezes whimsy, character comedy and ecological allegory into one crowded play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMAn astonishing new play by Will Arbery risks a rare stage subject: Christian conservatism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12AMJeremy O. Harris’s Off Broadway hit about race and sex in America shakes things up on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36AMGay dads and their “woke genius” daughter face the limitations of life in a patchy new play by Jeff Augustin.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMBrian Cox plays Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of his powers, when history decided to bring him down.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMBen Brantley and Jesse Green respond to readers curious about the Tony race, hungry for happy fare, and heading to London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMA new work from one of the indisputably great directors is partly a tribute to theater and partly a warning about theatricality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMAs a work of high drama, Jesse Green writes, the Trump-Zelensky script lacks stagecraft and subtlety.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMFlorian Zeller’s tiresome new play features Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins as a long-married couple, one of whom may be dead.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMIn ‘runboyrun’ and ‘In Old Age,’ the latest installments of Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play cycle, America is no place to hide from the past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMThe epicenter of New York’s AIDS epidemic, St. Vincent’s (1849-2010) is the subject of a memorial service that’s also a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMA new play argues that no one knows more about Shakespeare’s great tragedy than a man “born black in America.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMSeven of this season’s Broadway and Off Broadway shows come from an eight-week theatrical powerhouse in Williamstown, Mass.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54AMA new musical about a Filipino faith healer bringing “psychic surgery” to America expands the frontiers of the form.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33AMWith shrewd casting and amateur performers joining professionals onstage, a middling 1997 animated Disney musical becomes a pageant of civic engagement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMBess Wohl’s daring, mysterious new play is a comedy of underparenting and a tragedy of selfishness. Or is it the other way around?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMA sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman and a knockout premiere by Adam Bock close the Williamstown season with a metaphysical “boo!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMHow does who you are affect how you see this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama? Two critics finally have the talk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMAs a lowly apprentice on a notorious flop, I got to see how the “Dark Prince” achieved his effects and cut his losses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMBetter known for its classics, the Stratford Festival has long presented fine-tuned versions of Broadway musicals. This year: “Billy Elliot” and “Little Shop of Horrors.”
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