The comic and writer Monica Piper tells stories about her life and her casual relationship with her religion in a one-woman show at New World Stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMIn “A Taste of Things to Come,” a breezy musical at York Theater Company, four friends navigate the 1950s, the 1960s and the inevitability of change.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMThe Broadway musical and the man it’s about are the subject of a “Great Performances” documentary.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:27PMJonathan Rockefeller’s puppet play at DR2, ‘That Golden Girls Show! A Puppet Parody,’ features the familiar sitcom characters, doing what they always did.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:46PMThe overall portrait in this 1953 play by N.C. Hunter is of an economically comfortable English family in coastal Dorset in the anxious postwar years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:52PMInspired by the career of a former F.B.I. agent who infiltrated white supremacist groups, the film may get moviegoers’ blood boiling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:35PM“History of the World, Part I” is one of seven Brooks movies being served with food and drinks at the theater-restaurant Syndicated.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:35PMMichael Counts’s newest adventure mixes theatrical flourishes with the escape-room fad.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:50PMOutdoors at Marcus Garvey Park, a Shakespeare classic plays out in a free production that’s enhanced by its urban surroundings.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18PMAnother mash-up from the team that turned “Full House” and “Saved by the Bell” into stage parodies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMNoah Diamond delivers a precise revival of Groucho and Company’s first assault on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:58PMThis comedy isn’t above lowbrow humor as it melds elements of “Gilligan’s Island” and “Lost.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMIn a ratty Texas liquor store, several people show up, along with that small-town specter, the rift between those who leave and grow and those who don’t.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:26PMThere are positive and negative aspects to this York Theater Company production’s casting of young children instead of adults.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:03PMA stage actor struggling with the demons of old age is propped up by his personal assistant in this period piece, set during World War II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:58PMThis HBO film, directed by Jay Roach and covering Johnson’s first year in office, is based on Robert Schenkkan’s Tony Award-winning play from 2014.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:07PMThe play, by Sevan K. Greene and directed by Kareem Fahmy, is inspired by a memoir written by Mr. Fahmy’s grandmother.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:34PMDena Blizzard’s solo show about the travails of motherhood offers an evening of easy laughs but little insight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:28PMIf David Carl as Gary Busey as Hamlet is not exponential enough, the New York Shakespeare Exchange is offering “Hamlet” to the 10th power.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PMA play that may have been at least partly written by Shakespeare is mounted by the Letter of Marque Theater Company.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMA solo show from a writing partner of Dave Chappelle, mixes one-liners, stand-up and the confessional.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:31PMThe veteran stage clowns Bill Irwin and David Shiner bring back their sketches to the Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMMr. Birbiglia’s one-man show is an indescribably ridiculous collection of anecdotes and asides that miraculously blend into a whole.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMMr. Orloff, in this play, seeks to humanize members of a group dismissed by his friends and characterized as loudmouth reactionaries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:56PMThis play imagines what happens to an author after he tires of railing against the capitalist system.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:02PMWith its bar-raising razzle-dazzle, “Grease: Live!” propels the trend of musicals-on-television toward a new art form: not theater; more like the movie, but performed live.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36AMEach night the Drunk Shakespeare Society gathers with audience members on a library-like set, whereupon one actor downs alcohol, and the play commences.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:28PMToshiki Okada’s play at Japan Society uses an allegory to dissect the relationship among these three countries.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:14PMMr. Jan’s play is a multimedia quest to uncover details about his father’s past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMMr. Wellman’s play at the Connelly Theater uses Hitler’s dog, among other tools, to criticize international relations today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:19PMThe ABC musical-comedy series, starting its second season on Sunday, is mindless in all the best ways.
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