Craig Lucas’s play — about deafness, gayness, addiction, disease, faith and philosophy — puts a modern family to the test.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMAlbany politics in 1977 may not seem very scintillating. But Ms. Falco brings out the buried drama of an ambitious woman in a man’s political world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMA woman hunts for her former foster brother. Was he, like so many young black men, a victim of drugs or police or violence? Or did he just disappear?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThe shape-shifting Kathryn Hunter plays 11 members of the court of Haile Selassie in Ethiopia, witnessing and regretting the revolution.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMSometimes what you think you won’t like is what you love most.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMJen Silverman’s play takes a spirited look at the emergence of women’s solidarity with the help of Sephora, Shakespeare and a well-aimed hand mirror.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMHershey Felder plays the composer of “White Christmas” (and dozens of other American song classics) in a relentlessly minor key.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMThey are often Broadway sensations, but jukebox musicals rarely get good reviews. We invited our critics to stop snarking and tell us what they want.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMThough he remains the greatest American comic playwright, Mr. Simon was standing over a fault line in the culture that eventually pulled him down.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PMJen Silverman’s harrowing “Dangerous House” and a revival of “West Side Story” join a conversation about racial and sexual violence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMA new “original” musical is usually something to welcome, but when it’s a Frankenstein monster created from spare parts, maybe stay out of its way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMWith “The Tempest,” “An Ideal Husband” and “To Kill a Mockingbird,” the Stratford Festival carries on a conversation about purity and forgiveness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMAugust turns out to be a month for musicals, with science fiction, a Hollywood rom-com and dueling garage bands on the agenda.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AMThe 1972 Broadway musical, closing the Encores! Off-Center season, sketches the history of the resilience of black Americans in song and dance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMPlaying in repertory at the Stratford Festival in Canada, these mirror-image musicals turn out to be part of the same conversation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMIn Young Jean Lee’s smart, thorny play, two brothers (Armie Hammer and Josh Charles) urge a third (Paul Schneider) to own his male prerogatives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMAn hour north of New York City, a new production of Shakespeare’s impossible comedy finds a sensible way to respond to the #MeToo moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMThe director Robert Lepage, recently criticized for cultural appropriation, finds in Shakespeare’s tragedy a defense of Great Man prerogatives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMA powerful new revival of the 1964 musical offers a kind of authenticity no other American “Fiddler” ever has: It’s in Yiddish.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMIn Tracy Letts’s gripping play, it takes six actors (and a doll) to embody one steely, difficult woman, from infancy to the age of 69.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMIn the Berkshires, plays by Bekah Brunstetter and Douglas Carter Beane consider equality in the bakery and the rise of the “wonder homo.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMA long aborning musical adaptation of the classic backstage comedy demotes a clan of highbrow actors to tacky vaudevillians.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMAdam Rapp’s new play, about a Yale professor and a freshman writing student, gets a stunning premiere at the Williamstown Theater Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThe 1965 Lerner and Lane musical has been rewritten every which way to tell its tale of reincarnation. It never works, but oh, those songs!
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMA quippy Jesse Tyler Ferguson stars in Jordan Harrison’s shapeless look at what happens when the L.G.B.T. alliance starts to turn on itself.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMHer father’s in love with a 20-year-old boy toy. Her son is a queer studies major. In Joshua Harmon’s new comedy, it’s the middle-aged woman who feels left behind.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMA new play transposes Shakespeare’s tragedy to a modern high school, where a student with cerebral palsy has his eye on the senior-class presidency.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMA new play by Antoinette Nwandu puts the epidemic of violence against young black men in a theatrical and historical context.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMA look at the most memorable moments from this year’s ceremony celebrating Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMDelightfully comic juxtapositions (with a serious undertow) make a new play by Angela Hanks perfect for the warming season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMA private-equity manager gives a local schoolteacher and her finances a yuppie makeover in Anthony Giardina’s new play.
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