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This show, which takes its title from "King Lear," is a deceptively jolly account of a traumatic chapter in the life of the actor Edward Petherbridge.
The play, written by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, is set in the magazine industry and explores its tense culture.
This Shakespeare in the Park production about a duke living in exile features well-known names and the unpredictability of the weather.
The Atlantic Theater presents two early Mamet one-acts, "Prairie du Chien," from 1979, and "The Shawl," from 1985.
This new play by Dave Malloy, who wrote "Natasha, Pierre and the Great Comet of 1812," is set in the hypnotized mind of Sergei Rachmaninoff.
Anne Washburn makes a theater piece out of the chaos that characterizes the tech rehearsal of a play.
Kate E. Ryan's play at the Wild Project revolves around three women at a store in a New Hampshire town that has seen better days.
A woman of unusual force barrels into the life of a butcher in his mid-70s in "Heisenberg," a play by Simon Stephens about an unlikely pairing.
In this play, Mr. Eisenberg plays a self-centered character who wants to win of love of an engaged woman whom he's been smitten with since childhood.
In this production at City Center, Ms. Parker plays a woman who alters destiny when she kisses a stranger on the neck in a London train station.
In Jerry Lieblich's play in Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks series, questions of who's playing whom become as giddy as a "Who's on first?" routine.
In scenic design these days, the biggest thing in the theater is film - or to be precise, digital projections.
The Shakespeare’s Globe production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” at Pace University, treats this low-rent farcical war horse with a little respect.
Cherry Jones and Sally Hawkins star in Doug Hughes’s revival of the Shaw play “Mrs. Warren’s Profession,” about a prosperous madam re-entering the life of her dau…
The real-life spouses Marin Mazzie and Jason Danieley lead a new cast in the acclaimed musical about a family dealing with bipolar disorder.
“Gruesome Playground Injuries” is a blood-spattered twig of a play from the up-and-coming dramatist Rajiv Joseph.
Zach Braff stars in “Trust,” a New Yorker-cartoonish comedy that seems to be based on the premise that we all have feelings of worthlessness and urges to control and be control…
This seldom-seen Jacobean drama, based on an actual incident in 17th-century England, has been given an insightful production by the Red Bull Theater company at Theater at St. Clement’…
A select company of actors at the Berkshire Theater Festival is very much savoring Edward Albee's words in a first-class revival of "A Delicate Balance."
La MaMa, the East Village theater Ellen Stewart created and led, is not a 1960s relic; it continues to produce unexpected and even prophetic art.
The Shakespeare’s Globe production of “The Merry Wives of Windsor,” at Pace University, treats this low-rent farcical war horse with a little respect.
Audiences will surely find something wonderful in each of the five performances at the center of Jon Robin Baitz’s new play, “Other Desert Cities,” at Lincoln Center.
Ibsen’s “John Gabriel Borkman,” from the Abbey Theater of Ireland, is in production at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn.
Daniel Sullivan’s production, full of clarity and subtlety, makes its premiere on Broadway after a summer in Central Park.
A plucky little troupe is breezily overcoming many of the problems that appear to be plaguing “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” which is next door.
