A private-equity manager gives a local schoolteacher and her finances a yuppie makeover in Anthony Giardina’s new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThe great playwright’s treatment of his son Daniel, born with Down syndrome, is the subject of a new and troubling play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMA classic tragedy, a curious musical and three new of-the-moment plays open Off Broadway this month
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48AMAn intermittently thrilling new musical built around 22 Alanis Morissette songs seems to have 22 different themes, all worthy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMAn English professor may have chosen the wrong role model for his love life in “Faust.” Just ask his wife. And his mistress.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMUpstairs, the matriarch is ready to die. Downstairs, her adult children might kill each other first.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PMTwelve angry men and women await the return of a missing corpse in a revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis’s dark comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMIn Dominique Morisseau’s new play, Detroit’s mayor wants to clear “urban blight,” but some black jazzmen say, “We the blight he talkin’ about.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMA 2018 look at the 1986 Broadway version of a 1937 musical leaves some things blurry and others all too clear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMPassionate agreement on best musical, but after that all bets are off.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMDisagreeing on classic musicals, agreeing on “The Band’s Visit,” and worried about a season when revivals outshone new plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AMCaryl Churchill’s play about a moment of hope after the English Civil War gets a very dark revival at New York Theater Workshop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMAin Gordon’s new play tells a powerful story of gay life in America from the unusual point of view of a psychiatrist most famous for wearing a mask.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMEven a riveting central performance isn’t enough to release the potential of Tennessee Williams’s follow-up to “A Streetcar Named Desire.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMCondola Rashad stars in a thoughtful if mostly becalmed Manhattan Theater Club revival of the 1923 play on Broadway.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMA French verse craze inspired a 1738 farce and now a comedy in couplets by David Ives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMLauren Ambrose stars as a newly empowered flower girl in a gorgeous revival that transforms the classic musical into an ur-text for our #MeToo moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMThe first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff’s 1980 play shows that it was ahead of its time about deafness, but not about gender.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMA new musical at the Public Theater reinvents the family road trip narrative as a mother-daughter tale of immigration policy gone astray.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMYears after committing a senseless murder, a young man returns to his Nebraska hometown. That’s when the real trial begins.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMA new electro-folk singspiel by the authors of “100 Days” finds horror under the skin of a seemingly idyllic childhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMAfter 23 years in politics, the English star of “Elizabeth R” returns to the American stage in a torrential revival of Edward Albee’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMBeyond the blockbuster musicals (and Harry Potter) this month, there are a handful of potential gems like “Saint Joan,” “Miss You Like Hell” and “Iceman Cometh.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:08PMArin Arbus’s new production at Theater for a New Audience makes a powerful case for one of Shakespeare’s strangest works.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMThe Parrotheads were after me. Parrotheads are fans of the singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and I am the co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. Normally our flight paths would not…
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMIn Joshua Harmon’s new comedy, all it takes to turn a liberal into a martyr is a deferment from Yale.
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