Sunday, October 19, 2025

‘Larsen C’ Review: Grand, Dark and Inhumanly Cold by Brian Seibert

At the new Powerhouse: International festival in Brooklyn, Christos Papadopoulos debuted an oblique, glacially cool work with seven dancers.

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Saturday, October 18, 2025

Broadway Actors Reach Deal, but Musicians Still Threaten Strike by Michael Paulson

The Broadway League and Actors’ Equity Association reached a tentative agreement early Saturday. Union members must decide whether to ratify it.

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Friday, October 17, 2025

Review: At Ballet Theater, Tharp Comes to Push and Conquer by Brian Seibert

American Ballet Theater opened its season with an all-Twyla Tharp program, featuring her first dance for the company, “Push Comes to Shove,” and the for-the-ages “Bach Partita.”

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Thursday, October 16, 2025

‘Ragtime’ Review: Checking the Status of Our American Dream by Laura Collins-Hughes

Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz lead the glorious cast of Lear deBessonet’s inspiriting Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater.

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‘Oh Happy Day!’ Review: And God Told Keyshawn to Build an Ark by Laura Collins-Hughes

An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.

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Her Play Pulls on the Fashion Industry’s Threads by Laura Cappelle

The French theater maker Caroline Guiela Nguyen brings unheard voices to the stage, like the real and imagined garment workers in her latest work, “Lacrima.”

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Wednesday, October 15, 2025

Review: Aubrey Plaza Shines in Ethan Coen’s Retrograde ‘Let’s Love!’ by Juan A. Ramírez

It’s unusual for an Atlantic Theater Company production to feel so uninspired, but in this set of one-acts, committed actors are let down by juvenile language.

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The Limón Dance Company Tries to Shake Up Its Fusty Image by Brian Seibert

The Limón Dance Company tries to shake up its image with a world premiere by Diego Vega Solorza and a reimagined “Emperor Jones.”

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In ‘Other,’ Ari’el Stachel Confronts His Identity Issues by Robin Pogrebin

In his solo Off Broadway show “Other,” Ari’el Stachel explores the anxiety that has exacerbated his struggles with being an Arab Jew.

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George Clooney in ‘Good Night, and Good Luck,’ and More Theater to Stream by Elisabeth Vincentelli

This month’s picks include Clooney’s Broadway run as the CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and an audio play starring Hugh Jackman.

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Fall at City Ballet: Promotions, Debuts and Transcendent Dancing by Gia Kourlas

The programs were all over the map, but the dancers held the season together. Six were promoted, including India Bradley, the first Black female to become a soloist.

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Tuesday, October 14, 2025

Jen Tullock Multitasks in ‘Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

The “Severance” actor portrays all the roles in a play she wrote with Frank Winters, inspired by her evangelical upbringing.

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‘Can Art Bear This?’: How Carolina Bianchi Explores Trauma Onstage by Sasha Weiss

For her performance piece “The Bride and the Goodnight Cinderella,” which opens in New York later this month, the artist drugs herself as the audience looks on.

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Monday, October 13, 2025

Review: ‘Are the Bennet Girls OK?’ Well, Their Mother Is Magnificent. by Tim Teeman

Bedlam’s sharply irreverent production of Emily Breeze’s comedy, a riff on “Pride and Prejudice,” has period dress, contemporary vernacular and a magnetic Mrs. Bennet.

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A Tyrant for Our Times: Reviving José Limón’s ‘The Emperor Jones’ by Marina Harss

Limón’s dance, based on the play by Eugene O’Neill, has long been something of a problem piece. Now, it is being updated to speak to the moment.

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When Baryshnikov Wanted a Challenge, Twyla Tharp Delivered by Gia Kourlas

American Ballet Theater opens with an all-Tharp program, including “Push Comes to Shove,” the first work she created for the company and its newly defected star, in 1976.

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Sunday, October 12, 2025

City Ballet Fashion Gala: Iris Van Herpen’s Costumes Dance Too by Roslyn Sulcas and Nina Westervelt

Collaborating with the choreographer Jamar Roberts for the New York City Ballet fashion gala, Iris van Herpen created costumes that merged fantasy and form.

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Saturday, October 11, 2025

Zora Neale Hurston’s 1935 Play Comes Alive by Salamishah Tillet

“Spunk,” a fable weaving together music and movement, is getting its first full staging since being rediscovered in 1997.

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Friday, October 10, 2025

‘Krapp’s Last Tape’ Review: Stephen Rea’s Duet With His Younger Self by Laura Collins-Hughes

Samuel Beckett’s 55-minute contemplation of mortality comes to NYU Skirball in a neat and handsome staging by Vicky Featherstone.

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Review: Paris Opera Ballet Unrolls a Lackluster ‘Red Carpet’ by Gia Kourlas

The esteemed company presents a full-length contemporary work by Hofesh Shechter at New York City Center. Forget about pointe shoes. This is Chanel in socks.

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The Breakout Star of ‘Kiss of the Spider Woman’ by Sarah Bahr

“I wanted to tell a story that encompassed the gender spectrum,” said Tonatiuh, who transformed his body to play the queer window dresser Luis Molina.

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Harlem Stage Takes Its Show on the Road for the First Time by Jonathan Abrams

“Freedom Riders,” a performance featuring monologues about police violence against Black people, played in cities throughout the South before returning to New York.

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Thursday, October 9, 2025

Review: Is Dylan Mulvaney ‘The Least Problematic Woman in the World’? by Tim Teeman

In her bold, funny solo show, the social media influencer details a life of identity-searching, controversy and a determination to be absolutely herself.

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Wicked Broadway Garden Blooms This Month in New York by Laurel Graeber

Striking plants of deep pinks and dark greens conjure the visual world of “Wicked” this month at the New York Botanical Garden.

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Sarah Jessica Parker Wears Wings to the New York City Ballet’s Fall Gala by Sarah Bahr

The fund-raiser drew celebrities, rock stars and designers, though its red carpet and dinner was boycotted by the company’s dancers who are fighting for pay increases.

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In ‘Mary Page Marlowe,’ Susan Sarandon Is One Part of a Woman in Pieces by Houman Barekat

The screen star is making her London stage debut in Tracy Letts’ portrait of embattled womanhood.

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At City Ballet, Jamar Roberts Brings Fresh Air to a Fashion Gala by Gia Kourlas

New York City Ballet presents a new work of uncanny beauty, with costumes by Iris van Herpen, inspired by nature and technology.

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‘Cats’ Is Returning to Broadway, This Time With Heels Instead of Paws by Michael Paulson

The reimagined “Jellicle Ball” version of the musical is set in the ballroom scene — the queer subculture built around dance competitions.

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The Greats: Glenn Close, Tyler, the Creator and David Henry Hwang by Hanya Yanagihara

For T’s annual celebration of the people changing the culture, we profile three artists united in their dedication to taking risks.

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Glenn Close on ‘Sunset Boulevard,’ ‘Fatal Attraction’ and Her Storied Career by Nick Haramis, Joshua Woods and Delphine Danhier

For half a century, she’s brought her singular talents to the stage and screen. Now, the actress wants one more shot at the role that helped make her a star.

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How David Henry Hwang Remade Theater in His Own Image by Mark Harris

Long the leading Asian American playwright, he was writing autofictional works about identity politics decades before those were cultural obsessions.

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