A young black man in 1961 must choose between going to college and joining the Freedom Rides in Jiréh Breon Holder’s play at Roundabout Underground.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMDoes having children tame the wild gay spirit? To answer the question, a new satire by Dan Giles looks to an unusual pair of experts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMThe director John Doyle brings to Shakespeare the same techniques that helped him refresh many a musical. So why doesn’t it work?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMA child’s illness raises existential questions in Amy Herzog’s heartbreaking new play, starring Carrie Coon, at New York Theater Workshop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMA transgender etiquette expert faces pupils who have bigger issues than what fork to use in Philip Dawkins’s new play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMIn its out-of-town tryout, the stage adaptation of the highest-grossing animated movie of all time offers delights and difficulties.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:05AMIn Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday,” five siblings face the loss of a parent, their own mortality and a fear of flying.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThe playwright Michael Yates Crowley mixes unlikely genres in “The Rape of the Sabine Women, by Grace B. Matthias.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMGroup weddings, Korean pop, a superannuated Peter Pan and a transgender Emily Post are among the promising theatrical experiences of September.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMThe arrival of new cast members confirms just how good Lucas Hnath’s play is.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMTheater has quickly taken on the Trump presidency. Whether what’s onstage can change minds or spark action is open to debate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMCanada’s renowned repertory theater shows off a versatile troupe of actors in plays as varied as “Timon of Athens” and “Guys and Dolls.”
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PMAn Encores! Off-Center production of this 1980 musical by Maurice Sendak and Carole King shows how far the story has strayed from the dour books it is based on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMIf you knew what your life would hold, would you try to change it? And could you succeed? Bruce Norris’s new play answers, “Maybe” and “Not much.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48PMDon’t look for politicians in the Public Theater’s second Central Park production this season — or real tears. Be glad for the comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMKirsten Childs’s 2000 musical about internalized racism gets a playful, poignant production at Encores! Off-Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMIn Mohammad Al Attar’s new play, a 20-something Syrian is beaten nearly to death. Will his family and friends (and his country) ever recover?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMIn the Encores Off-Center revival of the 1991 Sondheim-Weidman musical, men and women who have shot American presidents get to sing. Will anyone listen?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMOne night a week, Donna Murphy takes over the title role in “Hello, Dolly!” from Bette Midler. Alternates, like her, and replacements can help make or break a hit show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMAll 13 of last season’s new Broadway shows, plus two revivals, produced cast recordings. Here’s our critic’s take on what to play and what to skip.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMIns Choi’s story of a Toronto store and the Korean immigrant family that runs it is at Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMTwo outstanding performances in a “Children of a Lesser God” revival are a Berkshires highlight.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMScott McPherson’s 1991 Off Broadway hit about duty to self and to others makes its Broadway debut in a very different world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMIn Meghan Kennedy’s kitchen-table drama at the Roundabout, an immigrant Italian family in 1960 seems ready to explode. Then it does.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMThrilling argument and a strong American debut make a sometime-strange play soar despite some silliness at Theater for a New Audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMHorton Foote’s 1954 drama of repression is given an affectionate if muddy revival.
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