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"Grace," Craig Wright's tale of a Christian entrepreneur in Florida, stars Michael Shannon and Paul Rudd.
At "Paris Commune" you might experience some of the dizzy exhilaration, liberation and exhaustion known by the Parisians who took over their city during this re-creation of a revolution.
Entrance applause can break the illusion, and the emotional momentum, that actors are working hard to sustain.
A locked-down New York is the setting of Adam Rapp's new play, "Through the Yellow Hour," now at Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
The Goodman Theater in Chicago has revived Tennessee Williams's "Sweet Bird of Youth," starring Diane Lane and Finn Wittrock.
"Habit," an art-theater project from David Levine, takes place in a structure within the Essex Street Market; audiences look through its windows or walk in.
Jake Gyllenhaal makes his New York stage debut as the wastrel uncle to an overweight, affection-starved teenage girl in Nick Payne's "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet."
Every so often - and more frequently on stage than in film - the interiority of artistic creation is translated into a visible, physical language that raises goose bumps.
"Job," Thomas Bradshaw's latest play, hews close to the Bible and eagerly dives into forbidden subject matter.
"Chaplin: The Musical," at the Ethel Barrymore Theater, describes the life behind the Little Tramp in terms of rags to riches to heartbreak.
"Silent," a play written and performed by Pat Kinevane, is about a homeless Dubliner who believes he has become invisible and inaudible.
That hard-hitting satirical revue of Broadway musicals, "Forbidden Broadway," is back with new routines and targets.
Two London imports arrive this month: Nick Payne's "If There Is I Haven't Found It Yet," and Simon Stephens's "Harper Regan."
Stella Adler, the great acting teacher, is presented verbatim, discussing eminent American playwrights.
The lovers in Philip Ridley's play never leave their own private world. And they keep reinventing it, with a savage spirit of competition.
In Sam Shepard's murky new play, "Heartless," a male academic with an unsettled life finds himself in a house full of unsettling women, most notably one played by Lois Smith.
Richard Nelson's production of "A Month in the Country," at the Williamstown Theater Festival, features a younger leading lady than is traditionally cast in the play.
"Into the Woods," the 1987 musical by Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine, is staged in Central Park in a revival by the Public Theater.
"Bullet for Adolf" at New World Stages, by Woody Harrelson and Frankie Hyman, explores ethnicity as a shifting and surprising equation.
In praise of risk-taking in the theater: To give audiences views of things they've never seen before, great actors and actresses go out on a limb.
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's production of "Love's Labour's Lost" brings to mind the fast-paced escapist fare of Depression- and wartime-era Hollywood.
Olympia Dukakis stars in Shakespeare & Company's jolly, quirky and unusually cozy production of "The Tempest."
Love has no dignity in the Sydney Theater Company's glorious production of "Uncle Vanya," starring Cate Blanchett and Hugo Weaving.
"Dogfight," a musical at Second Stage Theater based on the 1991 film of the same name, follows a group of young Marines as they celebrate their last evening stateside.
The Broadway revival of "Fela!" is about a lot of individual performances " every single dancer, singer and band member " forming a collective whole in which singular style is never sacrific…
