Signature Theater, New YorkDirector Michael Wilson stays faithful to pessimistic stage rendition set during second world war " even though it may not be one of playwright's best worksThe dir…
Lyceum Theatre, New YorkDirector Ivo van Hove delivers a thrillingly claustrophobic version of Arthur Miller's classic, with an extraordinary performance by Mark Strong as a man who has beco…
St Ann's Warehouse, New YorkHarriet Walter is authoritative as the king, and it's wonderful to hear Shakespeare's words performed by women, but the prison setting muddles the playSt Ann's Wa…
China Doll will open two weeks late, with Al Pacino reportedly using an earpiece to feed him lines " and he wouldn't be the first star to need technical assistanceIn Misery, the Broadway ada…
Caroline V. McGraw's dark comedy is set in a former fraternity house whose denizens work for a living but otherwise behave in disconcerting ways.
This play is adapted from "The Mysterious Affair at Styles," Agatha Christie's first Hercule Poirot novel.
The Belgian director Ivo van Hove, Michael C. Hall and Cristin Milioti talk, and avoid talking about, this new musical.
Jessica Almasy's play, at Dixon Place, shifts from an interview with a guilty tiger to a look at the teenagers who survived an attack.
Musical revisits an important and shameful past of the internment of Japanese Americans but story on stage fails to deliver distinctive and rich performances The forced internment of 120,000…
Marquis Theatre, New York… but before you get to that stage you have to negotiate the Gloria Estefan musical's gold lamé costumes, a cringeworthy conga and a very bad wigIs the rhythm goi…
The French film actor Mathieu Amalric makes his American stage debut in this play adapted from an Éric Reinhardt novel.
Several works explore topics concerning domesticity rather than the fight for marriage and other rights.
The actress, now starring in "Night Is a Room" at the Signature Theater, has seen her career prosper in her mid-50s.
Music Box Theatre, New YorkTim Pigott-Smith is in regal form as the future British monarch in a play that speculates " in blank verse " on what might happen when he ascends the throneMembers…
This mix of performance art and music at the BAM Next Wave Festival recounts the life of a German Jewish art historian who committed suicide while fleeing the Nazis.
Studio 54, New YorkIt's a torrid tale of murder and sexual obsession " but you wouldn't know it from this damp production, Knightley's Broadway debut, which alternately inspires yawns and gi…
Cort Theater, New YorkAR Gurney play about a middle-aged man who falls in love with a mutt might be a shaggy dog story, but Matthew Broderick and his co-star make it sing " or howlWill someo…
The Public Theatre, New YorkEnglish-German collective Gob Squad present innovative show in which a clutch of teens and tweens interact with their younger selves and imagine their futuresKids…
This year's circus theme at Lincoln Center is "The Grand Tour," setting off with the help of the physical-theater troupe Parallel Exit.
"BOSSS" is an attempt to dip a toe back into the rippling waters of environmental staging, this time at Hudson River Park.
This play at the Flea Theater is a variation on "12 Angry Men" as rendered by 10 perplexed undergrads.
Mac Rogers's sci-fi trilogy at the Gym at Judson depicts a struggle between humans and alien insectoids through the lens of one Florida household.
The actor is starring in Sylvia as a man whose relationship with a frisky dog alarms his wife " while the role of the hound was played by his real-life spouse, Sarah Jessica Parker, 20 years…
Topher Payne's play, produced by Primary Stages, is set in Washington in 1950, with obviously contemporary social and political sensibilities.
This solo play, part of the Next Wave festival at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, draws on the nouveau cirque movement.