An easily legible production of the ancient Greek tragedy borrows from the tradition of Noh theater at the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMJohn Glover lifts Michael Tucker’s otherwise convoluted and crowded dramedy of baby boomers contemplating life on a commune.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMBy definition, live theater vanishes in the moment; Ms. Corwin pushed to have shows videotaped and deposited in a library collection, which she ran for decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMA French stage adaptation of the John Cassavetes film misses the #MeToo moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMNtozake Shange’s play, with its unflinching depiction of black women’s experience, is coming back to the Public Theater more than 40 years after opening there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33AMThe Flea Theater has revived this brief play, in which a flat tire is the least of the problems you might encounter in Central Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMWas it a one-time telephone interruption, or was it written into the show? And why was it so crucial to find out?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMA frenzy of strained joke-making and audience participation overwhelms a promising exploration of romance in the internet age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMThe screen and stage star is making his Broadway debut as the bottled-up husband wearing a “mask of control” in Harold Pinter’s romantic triangle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33AMIn a tender pair of monologues, Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal portray young fathers shaken out of complacency.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMWith plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happened to them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMIn Domenica Feraud’s potent drama, hard-driving parents don’t recognize the examples they set for a daughter with anorexia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMThis new “comedy musical” is lesser material than she deserves, but Ms. Rudner delivers an innocuously pleasant evening.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMBereavement and self-destruction stalk the plays in Series A of this year’s Summer Shorts Festival in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24PMThe New York Music Festival production tells the story of the summer when Emmett Till was murdered.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMIsaac Gomez’s one-woman play follows the trail violence in a city on the Mexican border.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMThe “Oslo” playwright J.T. Rogers found himself moved stitching a story he thought he knew well: “It is a piece about hope and wonder.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMThis play by Zayd Dohrn, about a victim of a horrific crime who grows up to be a dollmaker, is a dark comedy — with a touch of horror.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:24PMThe City Center revival of this satire on the haves and have-nots features book and lyrics by María Irene Fornés and a score by Al Carmines.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PMAedín Moloney and Colum McCann lift the character from James Joyce’s novel to create a celebration of womanhood for the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PMFaith has had a powerful role in shaping some recent dramas. But plays can bring spiritual solace to the nonbeliever, too.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMHis world tour “The Man. The Music. The Show.” stopped at Madison Square Garden. But it would have been better on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMTo make the actors comfortable, the director of “Frankie and Johnny” brought in an expert in staging sex scenes — Broadway’s first, and certainly not its last.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12AMA forgotten 1948 drama by Micheál Mac Liammóir has been polished to a becoming shimmer at Theater Row.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMHollywood filmmakers tell a period story set in China in Gordon Dahlquist’s layered look at truth, lies and the power of narrative.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMBased on an anecdote from the set of an infamous commercial, the play focuses on the behind-the-scenes people who work to realize an artist’s vision.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMBekah Brunstetter’s civic-minded new play is about parenthood, paternalism and what it means to work for the people.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33PMThe stage adaptation of Louisa May Alcott’s novel places the ambitious, thwarted Jo March at its center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:54PMSet in the 1930s, this musical comedy about a young man striving for stardom lands most of its jokes in song.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMOn the dread, and the glory, of watching animals onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06AMErica Schmidt’s raucously exuberant adaptation finds common cause between rebellious teenagers and bloody-minded Shakespeare.
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