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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMA new theatrical experience in the Financial District is composed of 25 individual stories, but it’s hard to make sense of any of them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:58PMA 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMAlternating between funny and bleak, the Public Theater’s latest production tackles race and the modern workplace.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMOne of Shakespeare’s most coveted roles for women gets different interpretations onstage in New York and Washington.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:02PMAlmost 50 years after it debuted, this classic Black take on “The Wizard of Oz” tries to update its original formula.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PM“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMFor our critic-at-large, the year was marked by the Black excellence of “Purlie Victorious,” the brutality of “Bottoms” and rage of “Beef.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AM“Jaja’s African Hair Braiding” is a play where the Black women in the audience are the ones who feel most at home.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMThe playwright Renae Simone Jarrett makes her professional stage debut with a surreal reworking of a Greek myth about a river nymph.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:43PMAn exploration of how faith intersects with Black womanhood, through a mix of music, movement, ritual and poetry.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:00AMFor one critic, every encounter with this Shakespeare play deepens her understanding of its insights into grief, family and gender.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:37AMThis 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25PMThe magician Steve Cuiffo and the playwright Lucas Hnath try to find the reality beneath the illusions in this Atlantic Theater Company production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PMWith a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway’s shows, performers and creative teams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AMA family processes its bereavement in the midst of a demonic haunting in Keelay Gipson’s new play for Bushwick Starr.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMFor the fragile souls in this new play, presented by Steven Soderbergh, a Buddhist group that once offered them solace loses its way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMColette Robert’s play takes aim at antiquated rites of passage, and how they can promote classism, colorism and retrograde gender politics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:36PMJesse 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…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMIn a production decidedly for grown-ups, Tanya Perez’s one-woman show draws on her life as a professional clown (and occasional stripper).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PMSuzan-Lori Parks wrote one play a day for 13 months during the pandemic. Those stories come to life onstage in the form of monologues, dialogues and songs at Joe’s Pub.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMA family of adoptees reckon with Asian American identity in this surreal play from Playwrights Horizons and WP Theater.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:48PMZora Howard’s new play at the Flea catches three men during a few moments of their breathless eternity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:15PMIn Liliana Padilla’s play at New York Theater Workshop, college students find empowerment and life lessons in a DIY self-defense class.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:14PMA casually absurd play about the infamous Lizzie Borden, presented by Bedlam, cleverly undercuts the central dramatic event.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:10PMThis wine-dark sea threads through Harlem, and its Ulysses, buffeted by the gods, is a soldier fighting in Afghanistan who makes a fatal mistake.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PMThe playwright James Ijames and the director Saheem Ali built a “Hamlet”-inspired play, opening in April on Broadway, around their artistic friendship.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AM“She’s Got Harlem on Her Mind,” three of Spence’s one-acts, packaged together at the Metropolitan Playhouse, are filled with gender and class politics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42AMThe one-man show means to draw the audience into a moral quandary pitting immigrants and the American poor against each other.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:27PMIn three Broadway plays this season, a quest for financial stability can’t undo the trauma of the past or dismantle the architecture that places a ceiling on Black futures.
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