Irish Repertory Theater’s Letters Series is a reminder: For sketching the arc of a relationship, nothing compares to intimate correspondence, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:48PMTwo mothers make a life-altering connection during a play date in this production for the Manhattan Theater Club.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMLaura Horton’s poignant comic monologue at 59E59 Theaters, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, delivers a sympathetic portrayal of a sample-sale hoarder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMThe comedian Judy Gold’s new solo show at 59E59 Theaters is deliberately uncomfortable — and packed with laughs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMMiki Nakatani and Mikhail Baryshnikov star in this meticulously handsome stage adaptation of Yasushi Inoue’s 1949 novella.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:12PMMembers of the puppetry team for “Life of Pi” discuss making the show’s animals seem all-too-real on a very crowded lifeboat.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:30PMAfter 15 years away from the stage, Andre Royo of ‘The Wire’ goes all in with an evening of Eric Bogosian monologues at the Minetta Lane Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:20PMTarget Margin Theater remixes one of the Bard’s lesser works, with uninspired results.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:30PMRyan J. Haddad’s gracefully layered play about the lives of disabled people blasts away condescension and replaces it with comprehension.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:30PMIn Keen Company’s revival of Lynn Nottage’s 1995 play, a Black girl comes of age amid the churn of social change in midcentury Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMThe Signature Theater production is based on correspondence between the playwright Sarah Ruhl and a student of hers, who died of cancer at 25.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:31PMA microcosmic tale of the Indian diaspora, Deepa Purohit’s new play centers on the tangled history of two women and the man in between them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMDavid Greenspan gives a wild ride of a performance in “On Set With Theda Bara,” and marionettes star in Vaclav Havel’s play “Audience.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:46PMThere’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the world in the Irish Repertory Theater production of Samuel Beckett’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00PMPing Chong discussed his more than 50-year career as a multidisciplinary artist who has found inspiration in the surreal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:45PMAfter its original New York outing in 2019, the trippy musical returns in the post-Roe era with an updated script and sharpened fangs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:11AMThe Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a second selection of the works on display.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:20PM“Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk and the Sheep Have All Jumped the Fences” and “Heaven,” two plays in Origin’s 1st Irish Festival, offer two very different views of marriage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:00PMThe Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:02PM“Theater traffics in unconscious symbolism.” Set designers, lighting designers and a sound designer talk about skin tones, aesthetics and more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:00PMAnthony McCarten’s biodrama about the artists’ work together lifts the curtain on their friendship, or at least it thinks it does.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMThe British comedian and actor is now performing her solo take on Dickens’s coming-of-age drama Off Broadway. It’s “pure storytelling,” she said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMBailey Williams’s comedy is a sharp-toothed, sometimes bewildering satire of all-consuming workplace culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMAn addiction and recovery tale wrapped in a romantic comedy, Leah Nanako Winkler’s play insists on acknowledging the messy coexistence of joy and pain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMWill Swenson, the star of “A Beautiful Noise,” has come a long way from his days as an eighth grader wooing girls with his Diamond repertoire.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMThe ancient and contemporary swirl together in Liba Vaynberg’s ambitious, off-kilter play about life after a divorce.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMThe deep, dark tragicomedy by Bruce Norris is set in a group home for sex offenders.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PMYilong Liu’s new play toggles between China in 1984 and the United States in 2021.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06AMA play based on the writer’s memoir about the death of her husband, in its first New York revival, goes small to powerful effect.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24PMIn a probing new play from the Civilians, based on the book “Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind,” current and former members of the clergy grapple with the reality of losing the…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMAt Irish Arts Center, a wry, experimental iteration doesn’t do much to untangle the playwright’s unwieldy early work.
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