These plays deliver a jolt.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:00AMThe Broadway adaptation of the 1982 movie is the rare reimagining that actually keeps you laughing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMAn old-fashioned, overliteral revival of the 1947 play stars Tracy Letts and Annette Bening.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThis comedic sequel to “Titus Andronicus” finds Nathan Lane and Kristine Nielsen cleaning up after a Shakespearean blood bath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMAfter a downtown stop, a concept album based on Greek myths has become a full-scale Broadway entertainment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThe latest play from the Mad Ones finds the seeds of momentous social change in a 1979 focus group about a kids’ television show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMIf the nuance-free singing doesn’t turn you against this revue of songs with lyrics by Oscar Hammerstein, perhaps his holographic ghost will do the trick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00PMA revival of the Marc Blitzstein “play in music” about unions and kleptocrats is too wan to make much of the material’s contradictions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM“What the Constitution Means to Me,” the best new play of the Broadway season so far, rivetingly combines personal history and civic engagement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMWhat if black people, sick of injustice, picked up and left the United States? An outrageous satire by Jordan E. Cooper imagines the possibility, and the loss.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:21PMWhat happens when the husband you thought you knew is discovered harboring a terrible secret? Maddie Corman learned the hard way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMHow should we look at an old show with objectionable gender politics? As a historical curio, or as the next item on the cancel culture agenda?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:55PMA threatening text message with a homophobic epithet leads to catastrophe for two families in a new play by Michael McKeever.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:35PMIn John Guare’s Möbius strip of a play, John Larroquette is a playwright who finds himself trapped in a surreal mystery called “Nantucket Sleigh Ride.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMWith a few changes of emphasis and one major lyric rewrite, the 1948 musical comedy comes through detox as a bawdy, heady pleasure.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMTori Sampson’s play blends elements of mean-girl comedy and African folk tale to create a fable for our time about women and their bodies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMMilo Rau, called “the world’s most controversial director,” asks a cast of young people to relate the story of a notorious Belgian pedophile.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMBekah Brunstetter’s timely comedy about a Christian baker looks with sympathy (if not approval) at the other side of the public accommodation debate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMLook! Up on the stage! It’s a show with good intentions (and a “Dear Evan Hansen”-like setup) that can’t rise above its cartoonish plot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThe fine Signature Theater revival of Athol Fugard’s 1969 play shows how a classic seemingly fixed in one era nevertheless keeps evolving.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMMadeleine George’s new play brings back the god Dionysus to convince the women of Monmouth County, N.J., that the ecological end is near.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThe path to opening night in New York used to pass through several cities. Now it rarely does — but are shows better off for it?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:00AMIn “Sea Wall/A Life,” at the Public Theater, a pair of monologues gives the two stars ample opportunity to shine and mourn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMSince you provide the content for this group’s delightful hip-hop musical improvisation, you really have to lend them your ears (and phones).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThis 1950 musical has some charming numbers, but without a monster personality at its center it seems like less of a comedy than a requiem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMA prizewinning play by Leah Nanako Winkler puts the traditional “crazy family” dramedy in a new social and racial setting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMLaura Benanti and three other recently arrived principals adjust the focus of the hit revival from the political to the personal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMWith the help of fresh air, a Mother Abbess and a mild hallucinogen, six women spend a week in search of a female spirituality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMCalvin Trillin has turned his heartbroken memoir into a stage play that reincarnates his beloved wife and muse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThe Italian conductor (and philanderer and anti-Fascist) gets the Great Man treatment from Ensemble for the Romantic Century.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMSomething groundbreaking on Broadway: The story of “an effeminate young man of color” who finds his strength through singing.
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