Sunday, January 12, 2020
A jazz memoirist, a Palestinian rocketeer and Mexican myths set to music kick off the Public Theater’s annual festival of adventurous work from across the globe.
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Friday, December 27, 2019
A comedy number from the flop “Mack & Mabel” found the unexpected sweet spot between Irving Berlin and Stephen Sondheim.
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Lucas Hnath’s cunning new ghost story, about a psychic and her client, is a twisty yarn that won’t unravel.
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At the Park Avenue Armory, Odon von Horvath’s 1937 drama gets a rare and physically overwhelming staging.
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Samuel D. Hunter’s creaky play about the downsizing of the American West features terrific performances by Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan.
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Alanis Morissette’s “ironic” fury finds a perfect Broadway musical setting in Diablo Cody’s fiery indictment of, well, everything.
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Read and studied for decades, a key work of the American avant-garde finally returns in a major New York revival.
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Will Eno’s new play about the many people each person contains is glib at first, but grows, like life, from trick to tragicomedy.
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Two plays based on the autobiographical novels of Édouard Louis put the problem of violence against gay men in a larger social context.
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City Center’s gala production of the 1979 Broadway musical gives our favorite fascist enabler a feminist makeover.
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In a new work far from Broadway, Jeremy O. Harris, the author of “Slave Play,” puts his body and soul on the line.
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Tina Turner gets the bio-jukebox treatment, with all its lows (emaciated storytelling) and one of its peaks (a star-making performance from Adrienne Warren).
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In a witty new play by Liza Birkenmeier, restless friends find themselves challenged by the first American woman in space.
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Tuesday, October 22, 2019
When the former Edna Turnblad plays the feminist firebrand of the 1970s, there’s no dress but it’s still a drag.
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Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Thursday, October 10, 2019
This inaugural offering from the Coop squeezes whimsy, character comedy and ecological allegory into one crowded play.
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Monday, October 7, 2019
Wednesday, October 2, 2019
Gay dads and their “woke genius” daughter face the limitations of life in a patchy new play by Jeff Augustin.
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Thursday, September 26, 2019
A new work from one of the indisputably great directors is partly a tribute to theater and partly a warning about theatricality.
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Tuesday, September 24, 2019
Florian Zeller’s tiresome new play features Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins as a long-married couple, one of whom may be dead.
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In ‘runboyrun’ and ‘In Old Age,’ the latest installments of Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play cycle, America is no place to hide from the past.
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The epicenter of New York’s AIDS epidemic, St. Vincent’s (1849-2010) is the subject of a memorial service that’s also a play.
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A new play argues that no one knows more about Shakespeare’s great tragedy than a man “born black in America.”
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Seven of this season’s Broadway and Off Broadway shows come from an eight-week theatrical powerhouse in Williamstown, Mass.
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