Thursday, June 19, 2025
His works have been slow to come to stage and screen. But a new production of the novel “Giovanni’s Room” shows how rewarding it can be when done right.
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One of the most performed and reimagined works of English literature becomes a fourth-wall-breaking musical revue.
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Written by Alice Childress in 1969, the play feels just as revelatory more than 50 years later in a new production from Classic Stage Company.
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Joshua Harmon’s new play features uniformly standout performances and tells a poignant story of family dynamics.
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A new play about a group of college students putting in one last study session evokes recent stories about young women, but without the well-rounded characters.
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The New Group production of Sam Shepard’s classic tragicomedy comes off as disjointed and self-consciously stagy.
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The relationship between Prince Hal and John Falstaff, a favorite of Shakespeare scholars, is the focus of this condensed adaptation.
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“Severance” is finally back for its second season, three New York art museums are set to reopen and ballet goes extreme.
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Katori Hall’s new play about sisters gathering after their mother’s death features standout performances but an overabundance of themes.
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Neil Patrick Harris, Jane Krakowski, Debra Messing and Constance Wu star in the vulgar and entertaining new work from Robert O’Hara.
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Kenneth Branagh’s production of the Shakespeare classic speeds through the material and can’t quite figure out its tone.
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“Attack on Titan: The Musical” showed what a crossover between two seemingly different types of fans could look like.
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A new play from James Ijames, who won a Pulitzer for his “Fat Ham,” has intriguing ideas about identity and community that never fully take shape.
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A new theatrical experience in the Financial District is composed of 25 individual stories, but it’s hard to make sense of any of them.
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A somber yet witty play set in 18th-century England is a clever perversion of a courtroom drama that features strong performances from an ensemble cast.
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Alternating between funny and bleak, the Public Theater’s latest production tackles race and the modern workplace.
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One of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington.
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Almost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original formula.
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“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
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For our critic-at-large, the year was marked by the Black excellence of “Purlie Victorious,” the brutality of “Bottoms” and rage of “Beef.”
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“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is a play where the Black women in the audience are the ones who feel most at home.
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The playwright Renae Simone Jarrett makes her professional stage debut with a surreal reworking of a Greek myth about a river nymph.
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An exploration of how faith intersects with Black womanhood, through a mix of music, movement, ritual and poetry.
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For one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender.
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This immersive staging of F. Scott Fitzgerald’s classic invites audience members to join the party, but the pathos of the novel is stretched too thin.
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The magician Steve Cuiffo and the playwright Lucas Hnath try to find the reality beneath the illusions in this Atlantic Theater Company production.
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With a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway’s shows, performers and creative teams.
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A family processes its bereavement in the midst of a demonic haunting in Keelay Gipson’s new play for Bushwick Starr.
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For the fragile souls in this new play, presented by Steven Soderbergh, a Buddhist group that once offered them solace loses its way.
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Colette Robert’s play takes aim at antiquated rites of passage, and how they can promote classism, colorism and retrograde gender politics.
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Jesse Green, the chief theater critic, and Maya Phillips, a critic-at-large, name the shows and artists who they think will win, should win and should have been nominated for this year’s T…
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