In an autobiographical solo show at the Public Theater, Madeline Sayet grapples with her Indigenous ancestry and the responsibility that comes with her name.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMA father and a son recall parallel journeys that reflect shared experiences of otherness in Jeff Augustin’s play, performed with music by the Bengsons.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PMHanya Yanagihara’s best-selling novel comes to the BAM stage, and raises the question: How much suffering can the protagonist (and the audience) endure?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:03PMTwo men circling each other for a hookup talk through fantasies and everyday doubts in this play by Jacob Perkins.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:33PMIrreverence can be illuminating. But Bedlam’s energetic productions of classics by Ibsen and Shakespeare lose insight in the process.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:07PMJonathan Rockefeller’s Off Broadway production blends the charm and wit of the show’s early days with more modern characters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:07PMAya Ogawa’s memoir-like excavation tests the boundaries of love and family obligation through intimate confession.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:37PMThe new musical, based on the novel by Patrick McCabe, follows a boy in 1960s Ireland as he recounts a tale of boyhood mischief and alienation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:48PMThe playwright Kathy Ng imagines a world where mortality, eroticism and Hello Kitty collide in a spirited, if sometimes muddled, contemplation of loneliness and loss.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMThe first male contestant in his small-town beauty pageant is determined to win hearts, minds and the crown, in this solo play from the writer and performer Neil D’Astolfo.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMTearrance Arvelle Chisholm’s ambitious and sometimes metaphysical comedy playfully tries to tackle thorny issues at 59E59 Theaters.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PMTwo ambitious scientists are concerned with honey bees in this heady and data-heavy new play, a production of the National Asian American Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMThe intergenerational comedy is a poignant reflection on sexuality, mortality and Black masculinity by the playwright Mansa Ra.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PMFor affluent and educated 30-something New Yorkers, a favored set of the playwright Matthew López, a chain-hotel reception is as tacky as it gets.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:37PMTeenagers bond after school in a sort of classroom purgatory. And, where is the teacher?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMSet around protests in Istanbul that began in 2013, this play follows a couple as they circle, approach and retreat from each other over the years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMLust for power can defy logic. Why does anyone succumb to greed or ambition? Where Shakespeare probes primal urges through poetry and dirty deeds, director Sam Gold seems to question the ver…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 04:00PMBilly Crystal is roving the stage, leading an “oy vey!” call-and-response. There is no exclamation more apt for “Mr. Saturday Night,” the moth-eaten cardigan of a new musical now in …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PMPlaying the part of a marquee idol is daunting on its own. Playing one made famous by Barbra Streisand may seem like a fool’s errand, doubtless one reason “Funny Girl” hasn’t been on…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PMIt’s been 25 years since Paula Vogel’s landmark drama about sexual assault and its reverberations first debuted Off-Broadway. Since then, private transgressions, like those that Li’l B…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PMIt may be that “American Buffalo” belongs in the junk shop where it’s set — a token of bicentennial Americana with questionable lasting value. Like the novelty coin at its center, Da…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PMThere are some things in life you can count on. Birthdays will tick by like clockwork, a good cake recipe won’t fail and the young will chase their future while elders reminisce. But combi…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:01PMA star athlete comes out as gay, and the narrator asks, “Why now?” Greeting that question with a shrug, the revival of “Take Me Out” from Second Stage is a down-the-middle throwback …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PMPeople have long ponied up for the promise of elegance, familiarity and a bit of gracious pandering, on Broadway as on Central Park South. Throw in the allure of celebrity, and a revival of …
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PMClaudia Rankine’s heady new play dares white audiences to deny the realities of their social advantages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:33PMIn Sam Chanse’s affecting play, a daughter tries to understand her mother, who resists any reminder of her escape from the Khmer Rouge.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMThe actor is directing an Encores! revival of the 1997 musical, updating it to confront hard truths about racism, poverty and carceral injustice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMPeter Gil-Sheridan’s comedy for Keen Company raises a range of topical issues but fails to cover new ground.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:24PMHansol Jung’s new play looks at the broken adoption of a little boy who is plucked from South Korea and moved to one American home, then shunted to another.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:35AMIn her one-woman Off Broadway show, the “Sex and the City” author invites audiences behind the scenes of her life with a wink and a cocktail.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMThe radio and television journalist Faith Salie stars in a one-woman show about the perils of striving for achievement and affirmation.
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