Something groundbreaking on Broadway: The story of “an effeminate young man of color” who finds his strength through singing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMOfferings at the festival include a riff on “Uncle Vanya”; a “Frankenstein” adaptation highlighting a mother’s grief; and an intimate tale of displacement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMAn eclectic opening weekend included sketches and songs by Nigerian women, two unsettling monologues and a punk-rock reminiscence (with mixtape to follow).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMGlossy and bristling with fine performances, this adaptation of the 1960 Harper Lee classic gets the Aaron Sorkin treatment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMA revival of Lynn Nottage’s 2004 satire puts an unexpected spin on the religion of American reinvention.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMIn her new play, loosely inspired by “A Doll’s House,” Heather Raffo is radiant as a New York architect caught between cultures.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMIn a staggering professional New York debut, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris unpacks interracial relationships both antebellum and postmodern.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PMA new play mocks the gender and racial ickiness of the 1933 movie — on a one-paw budget.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMIt was a year when classics were reincarnated in deceptively modest interpretations, conventional story forms were tossed aside and strong voices roared.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48AMThe three faces of Cherilyn Sarkisian Bono Allman are the subject of a new Broadway jukebox musical that’s big on sequins, low on insight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMOff Broadway productions in December consider migrants from Africa, the Middle East and Manhattan, plus one well dressed emissary from Beverly Hills.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMA gorgeously illustrated stage version of the classic essay about 1960s California ennui may miss the point.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMA delicious new musical about Broadway narcissists, Indiana homophobes, the possibility of accommodation — and zazz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMCity Center’s production of the landmark musical from 1975 is a pleasure, an education and a problem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMAfter eight years of development, a peppy musical about the value of persistence proves its own point.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMThe one-ton, 20-foot marionette is impressive, but the $35 million musical he stars in doesn’t even succeed as camp.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMLarissa FastHorse’s theatrical debunking of the Pilgrims and Natives narrative is really a satire of theatricality itself.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMAs a black mother with a son in danger, Ms. Washington is up against a situation she may not be able to fix.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMSteven Levenson’s new play about young ’60s radicals has the unintentional effect of making all protest seem childish.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:05PMSoho Rep continues its laudable tradition of sure-to-be-divisive plays with Kate Tarker’s word-drunk new satire of … well, something.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04PMSamuel D. Hunter’s golden diptych, set in twin cities in Idaho and Washington, gets a riveting production, with barbecue, at the reconfigured Rattlestick.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMMiranda Rose Hall’s new play about the relationship between a lesbian and a male-identified trans person grows as it goes along.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMEmily Mann’s stage biography of the feminist trailblazer is more of a historical pageant than a play, but what happens at the end is riveting drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMWhen a gassy essayist and a pesky researcher are forced together by a crusading editor you get a topical comedy with a lot to prove.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMDonja R. Love’s fantasia on the married life of a great civil rights orator suggests the price paid by the woman who gives him his voice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMCan tiny companies thrive in the shadow of major institutions? In this theater-mad city, the question may actually run the other way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMA stripped-down, communal version of the 1943 musical reveals a great complex work of theater, with chili and cornbread included.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMBruce Norris’s new play at the Steppenwolf Theater Company applies his usual cynicism to questions of justice and vengeance for sex offenders.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMRevivals, transfers and new plays that look to the past make for an unusually reflective October theater scene.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMJanet McTeer plays Sarah Bernhardt as the Prince of Denmark in Theresa Rebeck’s muscular new play about gender limitation and possibility.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMCraig Lucas’s play — about deafness, gayness, addiction, disease, faith and philosophy — puts a modern family to the test.
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