Wednesday, September 4, 2019
Seven of this season’s Broadway and Off Broadway shows come from an eight-week theatrical powerhouse in Williamstown, Mass.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54AMA new musical about a Filipino faith healer bringing “psychic surgery” to America expands the frontiers of the form.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33AMMonday, September 2, 2019
With shrewd casting and amateur performers joining professionals onstage, a middling 1997 animated Disney musical becomes a pageant of civic engagement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMThursday, August 15, 2019
Bess Wohl’s daring, mysterious new play is a comedy of underparenting and a tragedy of selfishness. Or is it the other way around?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMTuesday, August 13, 2019
A sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman and a knockout premiere by Adam Bock close the Williamstown season with a metaphysical “boo!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMWednesday, August 7, 2019
How does who you are affect how you see this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama? Two critics finally have the talk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMWednesday, July 31, 2019
As a lowly apprentice on a notorious flop, I got to see how the “Dark Prince” achieved his effects and cut his losses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMMonday, July 29, 2019
Better known for its classics, the Stratford Festival has long presented fine-tuned versions of Broadway musicals. This year: “Billy Elliot” and “Little Shop of Horrors.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMFriday, July 26, 2019
Thursday, July 25, 2019
An Encores! Off-Center revival reveals the tantalizing cleverness and intractable faults of the 1997 (and 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2008) musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMTuesday, July 23, 2019
Monday, July 22, 2019
This season’s wide-ranging offerings, including Shakespeare and “Little Shop of Horrors,” reveal the surprising root of our longest-lasting stories.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMThursday, July 18, 2019
Halley Feiffer’s “Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow” turns the master’s refined Russians into “Mean Girls.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMWednesday, July 10, 2019
How did a lush throwback like “People Will Say We’re in Love” become the lean, sexy, countrified number being sung today? Follow along as we break it down.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24PMHow did a lush throwback like “People Will Say We’re in Love” become the lean, sexy, countrified number being sung today? Follow along as we break it down.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMFriday, July 5, 2019
A new work — and revivals of a classic play and musical — are having a conversation about different kinds of incarceration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMThursday, June 27, 2019
In a memory play with songs, the monologuist David Cale recreates the chaos of his youth in a rough town and a violent home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMThursday, June 20, 2019
April Matthis’s sensational performance anchors Lydia R. Diamond’s play about the first woman of any race to appear in a professional baseball game.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMThursday, June 13, 2019
Despite its top creative team, an adaptation of the popular Sue Monk Kidd novel feels like a first draft.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMTuesday, June 11, 2019
A delicious production of the great Shakespearean comedy starring Danielle Brooks and set squarely in our #MeToo and Black Lives Matter moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMSunday, June 9, 2019
For decades, our photographers have gotten intimate access backstage. Peek in as they capture stars, before the show and before the mirror.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12PMTuesday, June 4, 2019
Based on real events, the Steppenwolf Theater Company’s new play tells the story of a Chicago drag queen who throws her fabulous hat into the ring.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMSunday, June 2, 2019
Working opposite ends of the volume spectrum, two musicals, the new “Six” and a reinterpreted “Next to Normal,” find their levels.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:12PMThursday, May 30, 2019
Audra McDonald and Michael Shannon star in a touching revival of Terrence McNally’s play about first and last chances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMTuesday, May 28, 2019
There’s plenty to enjoy in this adaptation of a 1984 movie set at a Long Island beach club. But plenty to fix, as well.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PMSunday, May 26, 2019
A new adaptation of “The Oresteia” reminds us that a 2,400-year-old work can still feel appallingly familiar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMThursday, May 23, 2019
Tuesday, May 21, 2019
Tuesday, May 14, 2019
At the center of Chisa Hutchinson’s one-woman play, written for Audible, is a love triangle with just one side in view.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMFriday, May 10, 2019
Merciless comedy shades to delicate tragedy in a terrific playwriting debut from the poet and performer Aziza Barnes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:04AM 
