Wednesday, May 11, 2022
Decidedly anti-sensationalistic, Alison Leiby’s shrewd and funny personal monologue plays downtown. Uptown, a staged reading focuses on a gruesome case.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMFriday, May 6, 2022
Now starring in “Wish You Were Here,” the Iranian-born actress has made her mark in three works by playwrights of Middle Eastern descent.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMWednesday, April 27, 2022
In a mishmash new musical based on his 1992 movie, he charms the audience as a has-been comic reconnecting with family.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMWednesday, April 20, 2022
Camille A. Brown’s revival of Ntozake Shange’s 1976 Broadway landmark brings exuberant life to a play that celebrates Black women’s solidarity in the face of pain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07PMFriday, April 8, 2022
A new musical-comedy retelling of “The Odyssey” from the York Theater Company tries to center a powerful woman but feels like a show about and for men.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMTuesday, April 5, 2022
In Keith Huff’s new play, two friends head to the Jan. 6 insurrection, but this production substitutes unfunny cartoonishness for the characters’ humanity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMSunday, April 3, 2022
In this international production, you can check into the Balkan Express Motel, if you dare, and fulfill an ancient generational curse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMThursday, March 17, 2022
This early 1990s play, based on the life of Marshall McLuhan, is being revived by the company that created it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMWednesday, March 16, 2022
Huang Ruo and Basil Twist’s new choral-theater piece at St. Ann’s Warehouse borrows from traditional Chinese tales.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMMonday, March 14, 2022
Sunday, March 13, 2022
Grief for a lost love is the unhealed wound at the core of this play by Agnes Borinsky, which takes a disquieting turn into the underworld.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMTuesday, March 8, 2022
Lloyd Suh’s play is a riff on the arrival of the real Afong Moy, possibly the first woman from China in the United States, and a lens on contemporary racism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMWednesday, March 2, 2022
While full of fine shows, a long-awaited binge was also full of stress about how loosely audiences followed rules about staying healthy in a pandemic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMTuesday, March 1, 2022
Five Asian American actors, all over 60, deliver monologues that touch on grief and heritage, on adult children and cultural cancellation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMFriday, February 25, 2022
Thursday, February 24, 2022
The actor will be making his New York stage debut with Jamie Lloyd’s Olivier Award-winning production, coming in April to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMThursday, February 3, 2022
Arin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play, a Theater for a New Audience production that begins previews Saturday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMMonday, January 24, 2022
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 08:33PMSunday, January 23, 2022
This 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 03:33PMTuesday, January 18, 2022
Theaterlab 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 08:48PMMonday, January 17, 2022
With 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 03:18PMMonday, January 10, 2022
The 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 04:48PMFriday, January 7, 2022
Our 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 03:18PMMonday, January 3, 2022
At 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 01:06PMTuesday, December 14, 2021
Idina 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 02:48PMFriday, December 3, 2021
Digital 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 10:48AMWednesday, December 1, 2021
Mark 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 05:33AMWednesday, November 24, 2021
Whether 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 05:48PM 
