Sanaz 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:03PMMichael R. Jackson’s Pulitzer Prize-winning meta musical arrives on Broadway with its uproarious dialogue, complex psychology and eclectic score intact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03PMMary-Louise Parker and David Morse have returned to Paula Vogel’s 1997 Pulitzer-winning play about sexual abuse for its Broadway debut.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMDebra Messing expounds on the preciousness of life in a production that aspires to convey eloquent whimsy, but too often feels methodically sentimental.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:33PMShaina Taub’s new musical at the Public Theater tells the story of the women’s suffrage movement in the years leading up to the passage of the 19th Amendment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMIn Dominique Morisseau’s promising new play, the action is in the ideas and the setting bounces between the Civil War era and the present.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33PMThis experimental work, presented by La MaMa and the Indigenous theater ensemble Spiderwoman Theater, is full of enchanting stories but is missing a few threads.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:03PMInspired by Sophocles’ “Philoctetes,” Aleshea Harris uses poetic language, songs and symbolism to explore the trauma of being alive, especially for Black people.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24PMNew productions of “The Merchant of Venice” and “Black No More” aim to reflect our current racial politics. The results are uneven.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48PMEnda Walsh’s play, which had its U.S. premiere at the Irish Arts Center, stars two sisters who play different versions of the same character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03PMDaniel Craig and Ruth Negga head to Broadway in “Macbeth,” while “Fat Ham” and “Misdemeanor Dream” aim to lend contemporary context to classic plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36AMHappenstance Theater traps five pretentious aristocrats in a comedy of bad manners that could use more luster and more bite.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMIn the film version of “Tick, Tick … Boom!,” about a composer who dreams of Broadway, a “Rent” die-hard discovers more to love in musical theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AM… Some never to return. This new Cold War musical about the Soviet-American space race pays tribute to the pups who preceded the cosmonauts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMDave Harris’s hip-hop triptych exploring racism and capitalism is meant to be a biting satire, but it has little force behind it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48PMThe playwright directs and stars in her new play for Atlantic Theater Company’s Stage 2. It’s less a traditional narrative and more of a series of flirtations with discomfort.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMA classic text by the 10th-century Saxon nun Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim inspires two new plays being performed as a double bill at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PMThe musical “Hadestown” and the opera “Eurydice” aim to offer new twists on a Greek myth. But when it comes to their heroine, they only go so far.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMTwo critics on the joys (and pains) of a tentatively hopeful fall season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06AMTwo shows with Broadway aspirations, “Once Upon a One More Time” and “A Strange Loop,” represent opposite extremes of what a big, mainstream production can be.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMNo apologies from our critic-at-large, who found plenty of movies, plays and TV series to nourish the culture nerd within.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMThe new family-friendly musical, adapted from the hit movie, ends up cowering in the original film’s shadow.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMDigital innovation continued this year, but experiencing plays in isolation grew tiring. Then came an in-person season as exciting as a child’s first fireworks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48AMDomhnall Gleeson is surrounded by an eccentric cast of characters in Enda Walsh’s surreal play at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMWill Eno’s inward-looking incarnation of “Peer Gynt” steps out of Ibsen’s shadow just as Ibsen shrugged off elements of the original fairy tale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThe new musical, based on the 2008 film and delayed by the pandemic, debuts at the Public Theater. But its story of a white professor helping immigrants feels out of step with the moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMHer prescient 1955 play about racism in the theater world is reaching the big stage. And it’s anything but a period piece.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMLivestreamed productions of “Hamlet” and “Macbeth” from London reflect the vital role directors have in redefining these classic characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMKeenan Scott II’s play, incorporating slam poetry, prose and songs, aspires to be a lyrical reckoning with Black life in America.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:54PMIn Tiago Rodrigues’s show, audience members learn a Shakespeare sonnet together — line by line, over and over.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMRuben Santiago-Hudson brings his tender and vibrant autobiographical show to Broadway, honoring the woman who not only raised him but also kept a cast of misfits in line.
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