At Irish Arts Center, a wry, experimental iteration doesn’t do much to untangle the playwright’s unwieldy early work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:37PMBest known for her 1995 hit song “I Kissed a Girl,” the enchanting singer-songwriter Jill Sobule is the star of a winsome and defiant autobiographical musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMThe playwright, whose Pulitzer-winning “Cost of Living” is now on Broadway, talks about “the precarity of life” and our inherent need to be taken care of.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:19PMEmma Rice’s glorious stage adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel is a feat of storytelling, with a singing and dancing chorus embodying the moors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMMelissa Etheridge’s limited run at New World Stages is a celebration of its smoky-voiced 61-year-old star, and contains some confessions, along with her hits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37PMA husband and wife who may be the “astrological doubles” of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed head toward a crisis in this new play by Kareem Fahmy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:19PMThe hottest celebrity in town right now is an enchanting 12-foot-tall Syrian refugee puppet. She’s drawing masses of admirers, but that’s not always a good thing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:37PM“My Onliness” is voluptuous and frenetic, while “This and That” is a slip of a show. Both are pleasingly peculiar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:37PMThe actor David Greenspan is a tour-de-force, taking on all the roles of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s large-cast opera from 1934, sans music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:49AMSteven Fechter’s “The Memory Exam” begins with a promising setup, our critic writes, while Grant MacDermott’s marriage story “Jasper” struggles for emotional resonance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:55PMIn the solo play “Remember This,” David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:43PMCameron Darwin Bossert’s smart new play fictionalizes a 1941 labor dispute to explore the tension between passions and paychecks.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34PMTwo young men wander the city before they both must say farewell and return to very different lives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMJohnny G. Lloyd’s new play about a solitaire champion examines talent, ambition and the rising stakes of success when you’re Black.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PMThe experimental theater maker Aya Ogawa ponders her distant father as well as failure and forgiveness in “The Nosebleed” at Lincoln Center Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:37PMAnastasia Hille is riveting as Klytemnestra in Robert Icke’s production of “Oresteia” at the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMWith age-blind casting at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, two actors who have been married for 38 years play the teenage leads.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMThis vaudevillian show at La MaMa in Manhattan is like a party where weed is the guest of honor, thrown by ardent, uncritical hosts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMAt the Williamstown Theater Festival, Daniel Fish’s “Most Happy in Concert” confounds and Anna Ouyang Moench’s “Man of God” raises it own question.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:33PMThe 81-year-old actress stars as an eccentric dinner party host. When she was a teenager, though, wanting to act was a secret she didn’t dare tell.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:54PMA new Off Broadway musical, based on the best-selling young adult novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, is uneven but sweet, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMAt an uptown amphitheater, the Classical Theater of Harlem stages Shakespeare’s comedy with fizzy delight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMPatrick Stewart, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Tina Landau and Tim Robbins on being challenged and inspired by the legendary theater maker, who died last weekend.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMShe breathes, coughs and mourns, and now the cow puppet that captured hearts in the Encores! “Into the Woods” revival is on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMA young boarder’s plan to make a new life in Australia unsettles a staid British family in Elizabeth Baker’s 1909 play, revived by the Mint Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:43PMThe writer James Baldwin and the poet Nikki Giovanni are at the center of a crackling work of verbatim theater at the Vineyard Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMJessica Hecht, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Chekhov himself too often get overwhelmed by this ambitious Arlekin Players Theater adaptation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PMThe new play, about a 15-year-old girl and her impending quinceañera, creates a fitting party vibe. If only the script didn’t clarify every cultural reference.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:07PMJosh Azouz’s vivid, nightmarish play at Astoria Performing Arts Center in Queens is a hallucinatory tale about two refugees and a talkative infant.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PMA cast of three recount the gripping drama of the death of a teenager by the Dutch police in 2012.
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