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This dark play features grotesque festivities that are staged in New York after society has become only a shadow of what it once was.
Ben Brantley reviews "Three Days in the Country" and "Operation Crucible."
New York won't be quite the same helluva town after Sept. 6, when this happy revival closes. Misty Copeland, the reigning It girl of American ballet, joins the cast Tuesday.
Jane Anderson's new play, a Shakespeare & Company production in Lenox, Mass., is about the headaches of rearing a truly gifted child: Joan of Arc.
How I would love to see this dark masterpiece again, in that same state of unsullied expectation.
This revival of Eugene O'Neill's play centers on people who assume false roles that allow them to function in their daily lives.
In its move to Broadway, the show about America's founding fathers is proof that the musical is not only surviving but evolving in ways that should allow it to thrive.
The British troupe Cheek by Jowl infuses Alfred Jarry's satirical drama with the kind of angry adolescent sentiment that gave birth to it.
Taking their cues from an essay Keller wrote, actors try to approximate how she perceived the world.
Carey Perloff's heavy-breathing drama at the Williamstown Theater Festival centers on two newspaper colleagues on the brink of an affair.
The Potomac Theater Project presents an earnest pair of feminist plays by Caryl Churchill and Howard Barker.
Encores! presents a concert revival of Andrew Lippa's version of a lurid 1920s poem about a gathering full of sex, drugs and violence.
Ms. Maxwell, a five-time Tony nominee, says that the play, set in 16th-century Venice and produced by the Potomac Theater Project at Atlantic Stage 2, will be her last.
This work, under the direction of Garry Hynes and performed by Ireland's Druid Theater Company is a seven-hour adaptation of "Richard II," "Henry IV" and "Henry V."
The magicians perform many familiar tricks in their show at the Marquis Theater, but they also demonstrate a 21st-century edge.
This William Inge play revolves around a midcentury woman whose troubles include an abusive husband.
This play by Daniel Goldfarb focuses on an older author (Eric Bogosian) who becomes obsessed with having a child, to the dismay of his wife (Jessica Hecht).
Daniel Fish's excavation of Rodgers and Hammerstein's classic at Bard College asks that we listen with virgin ears to the show that changed the Broadway musical.
Encores! Off-Center summer series revives Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's 1982 musical with Jake Gyllenhaal and Ellen Greene, returning to her signature role.
This play from Melissa Ross centers on three sisters with romantic challenges and other issues.
Douglas Carter Beane's new play, at Lincoln Center, draws on his memories of working at a community playhouse as a teenager.
William Finn and James Lapine's musical, revived at City Center, stars Jonathan Groff as a composer who learns that he needs immediate, possibly fatal surgery.
In Douglas Carter Beane's comedy, Ms. LuPone plays a community-theater star.
The cast isn't quite what it seems in this Jaclyn Backhaus play set in the 1869 American West.
"Ada/Ava," from Manual Cinema and playing at 3LD, lets the audience in on the secrets behind the shadows in this spectral story of loss.
