Bleu Beckford-Burrell's play about a City Council campaign aims to catalog a gamut of social ills and how Black women rise to meet them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:24PM[SHARE]Evocative choreography and warm performances hold together Harrison David Rivers's play about the slippages between desire and trauma.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]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 04:18PM[SHARE]A 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 04:06PM[SHARE]Hanya 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 09:03PM[SHARE]Two 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 04:33PM[SHARE]Irreverence can be illuminating. But Bedlam's energetic productions of classics by Ibsen and Shakespeare lose insight in the process.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:37PM[SHARE]The 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 02:48PM[SHARE]The 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 10:42AM[SHARE]The 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.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PM[SHARE]The intergenerational comedy is a poignant reflection on sexuality, mortality and Black masculinity by the playwright Mansa Ra.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PM[SHARE]For 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 01:37PM[SHARE]Teenagers bond after school in a sort of classroom purgatory. And, where is the teacher?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PM[SHARE]Set 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 02:42PM[SHARE]Lust 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 04:00PM[SHARE]Billy 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 residenc…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]Playing 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 Broadwa…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]It'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 Bit exp…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 09:00PM[SHARE]It 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, David Mame…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]There 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 combini…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 08:01PM[SHARE]A 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 that nei…
SOURCE: Broadway News Subscription at 10:00PM[SHARE]People 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 09:00PM[SHARE]Claudia Rankine's heady new play dares white audiences to deny the realities of their social advantages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:33PM[SHARE]In 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 02:42PM[SHARE]The actor is directing an Encores! revival of the 1997 musical, updating it to confront hard truths about racism, poverty and carceral injustice.
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