The return of this brisk, smart provocation of a monologue is a cheering development, all the more so because it’s a belly-laugh funny show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:33PMThis opera, by Mac and Matt Ray, is as much a celebration of theater itself as it is an example of the communion humans crave but have been deprived of.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMTheaterlab stages a gimlet-eyed romance involving a girl and a young Nazi soldier in Occupied France by the playwright Rita Kalnejais.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48PMWith one play closed, Nottage can focus on “MJ” on Broadway and “Intimate Apparel” at Lincoln Center Theater. And maybe even catch her breath.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMThe experience of Jews who fled Germany in 1939 aboard the St. Louis luxury liner is the subject of a new production from the Arlekin Players Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMThe pandemic shutdown gave the actor time to reconnect with his clarinet, helping him fully realize his character, a lost-in-grief musician.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMOur critic didn’t set out to see “Caroline, or Change” seven times, but amid so much uncertainty the show turned out to be just what she needed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMAt the Irish Repertory Theater, this musical confection is a luridly entertaining tale, set mostly in 1857, about a villainous banker and his wily clerk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMIdina Menzel and a hummable pop score can’t camouflage the fact that this musical is half-baked. Still, it can make for an enjoyable evening, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMDigital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMMark Shanahan remixes Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens into a clever, crowd-pleasing holiday comedy that happens also to be a murder mystery.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMHe wrote great shows, but Stephen Sondheim was also a mentor, a teacher and an audience regular. And, oh, the thrill of getting one of his typewritten notes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMWhether it’s the emotion coursing through Enda Walsh’s plays or the energy pulsing through the streets of New York, the star of “Medicine” is picking it up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMAnnie Ryan’s stage adaptation of the Eimear McBride novel is given a lucid and intimate revival at the Irish Repertory Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMIn Mansa Ra’s heart-bruised new play, racism is a lethal force that menaces generations of Black American men.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PMThe production lacks the power to unsettle despite a fine cast of killers and wannabes who changed, or at least made, history gunning for presidents.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMThe first post-shutdown live performance at New York Theater Workshop is almost a debriefing after the crisis we have endured.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PMThe Olivier Award winner stars in “Caroline, or Change” in a role that pays tribute to “all Black women trying to make their way through this life.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMThe Irish Repertory Theater returns to live performances with a domestic tragicomedy by Kevin Barry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMThe play, tracing the rise and fall of the fabled financiers, finally opens on Broadway after successful runs in London and at the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PMThe daring Manhattan theater reopens this month with a gorgeous puppet festival, proving it has lost none of its nerve during the pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMOnce a fan and now a pioneering female member of the hip-hop improv troupe Freestyle Love Supreme, she is “switching it up.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AMTina Satter’s “Is This a Room” and Lucas Hnath’s “Dana H.” are performing in rotation at the Lyceum. They spoke about the significance of telling the true stories of living peopl…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMAya Ogawa’s gentle, forthright reckoning of a play is a belated processing of the loss of a parent by a daughter who now has children of her own.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMXandra Nur Clark’s provocatively questing but overlong solo show is a compassionate portal into a topic often treated with prurience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMI made the calculations before I traveled, and decided to go for it. Double masked, I stepped off the plane and set off for a week of theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMThese young dancers have Broadway debuts in store when the industry reopens. Some of them have been waiting more than a year to show their stuff.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32AMArturo Luís Soria wrote and stars in a forgiving, yet cleareyed solo show about parental damage done.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMEdward Einhorn’s “Alma Baya” is the bleak, humor-flecked tale of two clones on a distant planet who let a third inside their walls.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24AMIn “The Grown-Ups,” a play by Skylar Fox and Simon Henriques, audience members sit around a real fire in a backyard in Greenpoint, Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMWhen the Delta variant came to town, the Broadway stars, drag queens and comics were performing indoors again and the iffy summer of 2020 was just a memory.
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