Saturday, June 8, 2024
Samm-Art Williams’s “Home,” on Broadway, and Shayan Lotfi’s “What Became of Us,” at Atlantic Theatre Company, portray the politics and the emotions of leaving home.
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“Buena Vista Social Club,” at Atlantic Theatre Company, and “How to Dance in Ohio,” on Broadway, were adapted from documentaries, with varying success.
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John Turturro plays the sex-obsessed Mickey Sabbath in a stage adaptation of Philip Roth’s novel, and on Broadway Danny DeVito portrays a hoarder.
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In Jocelyn Bioh’s new Broadway comedy, West African immigrants navigate a Harlem salon fraught with cultural dissonance.
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Sophisticated comedic turns from Leslie Odom, Jr., and Kara Young guide Kenny Leon’s Broadway revival of Ossie Davis’s 1961 play.
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In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins’s new play, at Signature Theatre, friends gathering for their twenty-year high-school reunion are each inhabited by the Reaper himself.
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In “New York, New York,” directed by Susan Stroman, and “Good Night, Oscar,” starring Sean Hayes, the city is both the setting and a lead character.
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At the Irish Repertory Theatre, John Douglas Thompson and Bill Irwin wring moments of superb physical comedy from two characters who struggle to move.
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This raucously pro-choice musical, by the Philadelphia-based theatre collective Lightning Rod Special, sniffs out taboos and hunts them down at the pace of a sprint.
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A very funny, moving new play looks at the foibles of a Protestant youth group. Plus: Adrienne Kennedy’s Broadway début, with “Ohio State Murders.”
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In a new Broadway revival of “Death of a Salesman,” the actor Wendell Pierce makes the melody of a sentence carry meaning beyond its words.
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At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the director, whose radically reimagined “Oklahoma!” was an emphatic Broadway hit, turns to Frank Loesser’s 1956 musical.
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The real-life spouses Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick play three different couples in a new Broadway production of Neil Simon’s trio of one-act plays, from 1968, at the Hudson T…
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In Lynn Nottage’s new play, characters’ life stories come between slapstick riffs on sandwich-making; Alice Childress’s 1955 play makes its much belated Broadway début.
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Martyna Majok’s play, presented by New York Theatre Workshop at the Lucille Lortel, focusses on two precisely defined characters to explore the injustices experienced by Dreamers in Americ…
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The first play to open on Broadway since the shutdown, about two down-and-out young Black men on a barren block, is a strange fit for the moment at hand.
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For “Zoetrope,” viewers peer into a trailer to watch two lovers on lockdown talking past each other in well-educated millennialese; Bill Gunn’s “The Forbidden City” follows a Blac…
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Simon Stephens’s adaptation of José Saramago’s dystopian novel, about a sudden epidemic of blindness, is up—in person—at the Daryl Roth Theatre.
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Vinson Cunningham on Jeremy O. Harris’s new work and Aaron Sorkin’s adaptation of Harper Lee’s novel, which explore the politics and the power at the heart of America’s racial regime.
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Vinson Cunningham reviews the new Broadway musical “King Kong” and the drama “American Son.”
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Vinson Cunningham on Kenneth Lonergan’s drama, starring Elaine May, and Jez Butterworth’s play, which sketches a harsh day for an Irish family during the Troubles.
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