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The performance and burlesque artists Julie Atlas Muz and Mat Fraser are appearing in "Beauty and the Beast." But don't expect G-rated material.
Even the jerks become likable in Fiasco Theater's charming production of "Measure for Measure," one of Shakespeare's creepiest plays.
In Craig Lucas's new play, "Ode to Joy," Kathryn Erbe and Arliss Howard play lovers who bond over a tidal wave of vodka.
In the Young Vic's production of "A Doll's House," at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn, Hattie Morahan brings out Nora's manipulative side.
Kelli O'Hara confirms her position as one of the most exquisitely expressive stars in musical theater in "The Bridges of Madison County" on Broadway.
Caryl Churchill's new play, "Love and Information," unfolds with miniplots that deal with the ways we lust for, process and reject knowledge.
The stage keeps looking to the screen for its musicals " this season, "Rocky," "Aladdin" and "Bullets Over Broadway."
In Charles Busch's "The Tribute Artist," a female impersonator assumes the identity of his dead landlady to keep his coveted Greenwich Village apartment.
The 1962 musical "Little Me," starring Rachel York, Judy Kaye and Christian Borle, begins the season for the Encores! concert revival series.
Three plays onstage in London " "Ghosts," "Blurred Lines" and "The Pass" " are rooted in sexual hypocrisy and double standards.
The playwright Christina Masciotti puts together a father and college-age daughter in the gentle comedy "Adult" at Abrons Arts Center.
Jude Law, David Tennant and Tom Hiddleston have recently lent a screen-god glow to Shakespeare's portraits of uncommon men, creating the hardest tickets to get in London. &n…
In its breezy blandness, Thomas Bradshaw's new play, "Intimacy," is neither your everyday sex comedy nor a sendup of one.
Sam Mendes sets his "King Lear," starring Simon Russell Beale at the National Theater, in a modern dictatorship.
The Menier Chocolate Factory's production of the famously hard-to-stage musical "Candide" suggests that life may just be endurable " as long as we have the pluck to put on a show about how a…
Hilary Mantel's best-selling novels about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII have been adapted for the stage at the Royal Shakespeare Company.
A revival of Jez Butterworth's 1995 "Mojo," with Ben Whishaw, and three Beckett monologues "Not I/Footfalls/Rockaby" are reminders of the complex artistry required to distill words into live…
Two dark new London musicals, "Stephen Ward," about the 1963 Profumo scandal, and "American Psycho," show men and their libidos behaving badly.
In "King Lear" at the BAM Harvey Theater, Frank Langella manifests a tyrant's reflexes in a multitude of keys.
A desperate life blazes amid devouring shadows in the Roundabout Theater Company's intensely stylish revival of "Machinal."
Jon Fosse's "I Am the Wind," at 59E59 Theaters, finds two men in a boat, lost on the ocean.
"Beautiful: The Carole King Musical" traces the singer-songwriter's bumpy road to stardom, song by song by song.
The young company Bedlam Theater is presenting two four-actor plays " Shaw's "Saint Joan" and Shakespeare's "Hamlet" " in repertory at the Lynn Redgrave Theater.
THE WEEK AHEAD
The Red Bull Theater, which has demonstrated a stylish affinity for Grand Guignol, seems the proper troupe to exhume Orton's improper attack on conventional pieties.
The Red Bull Theater, which has demonstrated a stylish affinity for Grand Guignol, seems the proper troupe to exhume Joe Orton's "Loot."
