This 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.
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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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:00AMA new production of Denis Johnson’s final play showcases many of his signatures: deadpan absurdism, misfit characters, heavy drinking and statements on the bleak fact of human mortality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:12PMJulia May Jonas’s play-as-Mass for LCT3 is imaginative, but falters as it nears the finish line.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36PMFor our critic-at-large, “Fat Ham,” “Severance,” “A Strange Loop” and “Sandman” were some of the places she found truth and transcendence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AMDeirdre O’Connell shines as a modern-day descendant of an accused witch in Sarah Ruhl’s unfocused new play at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18PMGina Moxley’s punchy, punk-rock play counters a woman’s betrayal by her therapists, exposing the sexism in her treatment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMThis Off Broadway production of Edward Albee’s drama is the first to feature a full cast of Asian American actors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMThomas Ostermeier’s production of “Hamlet,” presented as part of the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Next Wave festival, unleashes more madness than what Shakespeare has already offered.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMJohn David Washington, Danielle Brooks and Samuel L. Jackson star in the first Broadway revival of Wilson’s haunting family drama set in 1936.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:37PMGracie Gardner’s play about illness, the body and our health care system is just as impersonal as the waiting room where her story is centered.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37PMSubtle connections bridge the worlds of two caregivers in Martyna Majok’s 2018 Pulitzer Prize-winning play, making its Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PMA new production of two of María Irene Fornés’s short plays, “Mud” and “Drowning,” tries to accentuate the weirdness of the playwright’s worlds but too often overreaches.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:43PMIn Victor I. Cazares’s play, Walmart is a haven for a family of undocumented Mexican immigrants, but it comes with a cost.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMIn shows like “The Burnt City,” the chaos of war meets the curated artifice of performance, our critic writes. But “Oresteia” took a different view, and the audience was better for i…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:13AMIn films like “Honk for Jesus. Save Your Soul” and shows like “The Righteous Gemstones,” pageantry is the top priority.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:55PMOn Broadway this fall, it’s less about new playwrights making their debuts and more about established stars giving the stage a shot.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AMElevator Repair Service’s Chekhov revival has promising ideas about art, experimentation and truth, but the production inevitably falls flat, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PMAmir Arison stars as a guilt-ridden Afghan refugee brooding over a childhood friendship in a stiff adaptation of Khaled Hosseini’s best-selling novel.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37PMPTP/NYC, celebrating its 35th repertory season, returns to New York with short works by Steven Berkoff and Caryl Churchill.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMAlex Lawther makes for an especially riveting hero in Robert Icke’s chic if imperfect modern-dress production at the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMIn this heady Lincoln Center Theater production, Brian Watkins finds laughs and shivers in a pensive gathering of old friends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMA tricky challenge for Black playwrights: offering deliverance, even hope, while staying truthful about real-life tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AMJames Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set at a Southern barbecue, gets its first in-person production at the Public Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMIrondale Ensemble’s adaptation of Brecht’s antiwar epic captures some of its spirit but lacks any real philosophical or political heft.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMDecoding the Tony nominations, our critics review a season of bold productions that met audiences often craving the familiar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMSanaz Toossi’s new play follows a group of five women in Iran as they and their friendships change against the backdrop of marriages and revolution.
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