Better 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.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMA follow-up to the startling and divisive “Nanette” is just as startling and probably just as divisive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMAn Encores! Off-Center revival reveals the tantalizing cleverness and intractable faults of the 1997 (and 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2008) musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMAnnie Golden stars in a musical B-movie pastiche that lands in the gap between tribute and spoof.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThis season’s wide-ranging offerings, including Shakespeare and “Little Shop of Horrors,” reveal the surprising root of our longest-lasting stories.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMHalley Feiffer’s “Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow” turns the master’s refined Russians into “Mean Girls.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMHow did a lush throwback like “People Will Say We’re in Love” become the lean, sexy, countrified number being sung today? Follow along as we break it down.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMA new work — and revivals of a classic play and musical — are having a conversation about different kinds of incarceration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMIn a memory play with songs, the monologuist David Cale recreates the chaos of his youth in a rough town and a violent home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMThe world premiere “kung fu musical” at the Shed isn’t much of either.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMApril Matthis’s sensational performance anchors Lydia R. Diamond’s play about the first woman of any race to appear in a professional baseball game.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMDespite its top creative team, an adaptation of the popular Sue Monk Kidd novel feels like a first draft.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMA delicious production of the great Shakespearean comedy starring Danielle Brooks and set squarely in our #MeToo and Black Lives Matter moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMSwinging lights. Broadway beefs. Words of wisdom. And a restroom serenade. If only some of the highlights were on TV.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMFor decades, our photographers have gotten intimate access backstage. Peek in as they capture stars, before the show and before the mirror.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12PMBased on real events, the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s new play tells the story of a Chicago drag queen who throws her fabulous hat into the ring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMWorking opposite ends of the volume spectrum, two musicals, the new “Six” and a reinterpreted “Next to Normal,” find their levels.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMAudra McDonald and Michael Shannon star in a touching revival of Terrence McNally’s play about first and last chances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMThere’s plenty to enjoy in this adaptation of a 1984 movie set at a Long Island beach club. But plenty to fix, as well.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PMA new adaptation of “The Oresteia” reminds us that a 2,400-year-old work can still feel appallingly familiar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMNow in its third year, this Broadway hit has grown up by aging down.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMCan a foolish mainstream movie dramatize ecological crisis? Can a smart play?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMAt the center of Chisa Hutchinson’s one-woman play, written for Audible, is a love triangle with just one side in view.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMAdventurous directors and galvanizing performances made for unexpected — and very welcome — departures on what once felt like the Staid White Way.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36AMMerciless comedy shades to delicate tragedy in a terrific playwriting debut from the poet and performer Aziza Barnes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04AMWomen on the front lines of danger in 1963 were often pushed to the backbench of the civil rights movement. A new play gives them their due.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMA flamboyant artiste who danced nearly naked into his 80s gives one last performance in a new play from the Civilians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMNew York Times theater critics on a Tonys roster that highlighted originality, if not diversity, and made room for some welcome surprises.
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