Ruben 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.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMThe Bedlam theater company returns with another adaptation of Jane Austen, but the production misses all of the source material’s subtle wit.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMThe African Theater, which had its first performance on Sept. 17, 1821, is both an inspiration and a cautionary tale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMJohn Pollono directs and stars in an adaptation of his play that adds depth to the original text but also struggles in its translation from stage to screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06AMIn new musicals about Princess Diana, Cary Grant and Michael Jackson actors get a chance to embody icons while spotlighting their individual talents.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMHarold Pinter’s one-act play, starring Daniel Mays and David Thewlis as hit men, is available to stream live via the Old Vic Theater.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:06PMThe collaborative project conceived by Lynn Nottage is too heterogeneous and muddled to rally around one clear theme or concept.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54PMThis array of short plays has viewers in headphones wandering the meatpacking district for stylish, but shallow, theatrical thrills.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMJames Ijames’s amusingly cynical and eclectic new play, “The Most Spectacularly Lamentable Trial of Miz Martha Washington,” is at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival through July 30.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMLa película, ambientada en un barrio neoyorquino conocido como la Pequeña República Dominicana, no incluyó a latinos de piel oscura en los papeles principales. Críticos y reporteros del…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:49PMThe film, set in a New York neighborhood known as the Little Dominican Republic, didn’t cast dark-skinned Latinos in lead roles. Our writers discuss how that absence reverberates.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:26PMRaja Feather Kelly’s “The Kill One Race” and “This American Wife” exist in a realm between, changing our relationship with what we witness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMA new virtual reality experience in Williamsburg marries wondrous production values with banal narratives.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PMThis HBO documentary follows Andy Señor Jr. as he directs a production of “Rent” in Cuba.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThe play is a wild genre-bending parody of, and homage to, “The Real Housewives” franchise.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMTwelve exquisitely designed installations capture the fears, hopes and reveries shared on audio by 12 women playwrights.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMMichel Marc Bouchard’s melodrama, about an illicit gay love affair in 1912, displays a lot of kookiness and little self-awareness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PMWith four actors and a contemporary setting, Bedlam offers an audacious, if half-baked, take on the Schiller play about the fate of Mary, Queen of Scots.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMExquisite Corpse Company’s clever choose-your-own-adventure play has a handful of viewers peek in on a Brooklyn couple in really close quarters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMLive performances via Zoom mix with actual game footage in this well-intentioned but preachy play by the poet Darrel Alejandro Holnes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMA lusty new production is both an enticement and a warning as we tentatively explore intimacy after a year of forced solitude.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMIn this clever show, audience members join a “neighborhood” and lobby for how its discordant residents should to spend a chunk of community money.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:42PMCasting Black actors and filming in a claustrophobic New York apartment revitalizes Jason Robert Brown’s popular two-character musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:03PMAt the Yale School of Drama, the playwright Jeremy O. Harris found the kind of classmates that you can trust with your first drafts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03AMThe autobiographical solo show from Daniel J. Watts shows off his skill with spoken word and dance, but doesn’t add up to more than the sum of its parts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PMStimulating and immersive — yet actor-free — this audio adaptation of the Saramago novel brings the terror of an epidemic into your ears.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMIt’s easier to find meaning in fiction than in the senseless mass killings of our reality, which seem to render the critical perspective pointless, even silly, at times.
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