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Ivo van Hove's attention-splintering revival of the immortal 1957 musical features new choreography, a ravishing orchestra and smothering visual effects.
Compelling revivals make "Endgame" (with Alan Cumming and Daniel Radcliffe) and "Far Away" feel more unsettlingly relevant than ever.
This murky and tedious reworking of Friedrich Dürrenmatt's dark fable of love and lucre is illuminated by Lesley Manville's dazzling star turn.
In what he says will probably be his last work, a master playwright finds urgent lessons for the present in the past of a Viennese family.
Yaël Farber's stunning, Dublin-born interpretation of this eternal classic finds the dizzying layers of performance that rule all our lives.
The New Group's musical adaptation of Paul Mazursky's 1969 movie, featuring Suzanne Vega, doesn't smirk but it doesn't soar, either.
Simon Stone's contemporary spin on the classic tale of marital vengeance feels more clinical than tragic.
John Bolton's new memoir is titled "The Room Where It Happened," nearly the same as a song from Lin-Manuel Miranda's Broadway hit.
This ingenious, bare-bones adaptation of Susan Hill's Gothic novel " a long-running hit in London " allows audiences to take charge of their fear.
Racism is a stealth force in Eboni Booth's astute study of the (mostly) quiet desperation of minimum-wage workers in Vermont.
Ideally cast as a plain-spoken woman made of quiet steel, she acts the way Elizabeth Strout writes in this compelling adaptation of the 2016 novel.
In this stark, eloquent new play, three women reflect on what remains in the aftermath of an American civil war.
In Martin Crimp's time-bending version of the Rostand "Cyrano de Bergerac," directed by Jamie Lloyd, people make love and war through glorious language.
New takes on beloved works by Elena Ferrante, Anton Chekhov and Neil Gaiman testify to the pleasures and perils of adaptation.
An electrifying revival, starring a heartbreaking Wendell Pierce, reimagines Willy Loman as a black man in a white man's world.
A brassy celebration of optimism and urbanity, "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" from "Hello, Dolly!" can still stir the emotions.
This tuneful adaptation of John Carney's movie, about the saving grace of pop music in 1980s Dublin, hasn't quite found its ideal voice.
Stephen Adly Guirgis's bumpy, vibrant and expansive comic drama about a women's homeless shelter features a cast of 18 (or 19, counting the goat).
Inua Ellams's energizing, globe-traveling play considers the barber's chair as the black man's confessional.
In retooling his first produced work, Tony Kushner himself appears as a character in this lumbering portrait of endangered artists in Nazi Berlin.
The Signature Theater's compassionate revival of Horton Foote's 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes a slow route to devastation.
This lively reimagining of Dickens's yuletide perennial, written by Jack Thorne, returns the story's social conscience to center stage.
Breadth doesn't always equal depth in Matthew Lopez's supersize, vividly painted portrait of gay life in the 21st century, featuring E.M. Forster as a spirit guide.
The Signature Theater revival of Anna Deavere Smith's drama about the Crown Heights race riots confirms this play's status as an enduring work of art.
Garry Hynes's visually hypnotic interpretation of the tale of the crookback who would be king sees medieval England as a cold slaughterhouse.
