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New Yorkers will be happy to learn that they can still catch a performance of Bruce Norris's "Clybourne Park," this year's Pulitzer Prize winner for drama, in a much-lauded production in a b…
In "Picked," Christopher Shinn's new play, an actor gets the chance to move up to the A-list.
The Belarus Free Theater, now performing three plays in repertory at La MaMa, should be seen by everyone who wants confirmation of the continuing relevance and vitality of theater.
"War Horse," the hit London play about the horrors of World War I, and its captivating star come to life at Lincoln Center.
Punchdrunk, a British site-specific theater company, has taken over three abandoned warehouses to enact the sorry sights of the murderous Macbeths' career in a movable orgy titled "Sleep No …
"The___________ With the Hat," Stephen Adly Guirgis's vibrant and surprisingly serious new comedy, is at the Gerald Schoenfeld Theater.
"Catch Me if You Can," the new Broadway musical by much of the team behind "Hairspray," is full of elaborate deceptions and corkscrew twists, but not many surprises.
"Catch Me if You Can," the new Broadway musical by much of the team behind "Hairspray," is full of elaborate deceptions and corkscrew twists, but not many surprises.
Sutton Foster stars in Kathleen Marshall's rousing Broadway revival of Cole Porter's willfully silly musical "Anything Goes."
Sometimes theater can make audiences uncomfortable in a way that penetrates to the marrow.
"Marie and Bruce," Wallace Shawn's 1979 portrait of marital misery, has been revived at the Acorn Theater.
Harvey Fierstein joins the cast of "La Cage aux Folles" at the Longacre Theater.
You root for Daniel Radcliffe, who stars in the revival of Frank Loesser's "How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying," though Rob Ashford's production is charm free.
John Douglas Thompson stars as Macbeth, and Annika Boras as his wife, in Arin Arbus's production at the Duke on 42nd Street.
"The Book of Mormon," a collaboration between the creator's of "South Park" and the composer of "Avenue Q," is that rare thing: an old-fashioned, pleasure-giving musical.
Lanford Wilson reflected the disenchantment that came to pervade the United States in the 1960s and 1970s but his work exuded a sentimentality that seemed to come from an earlier time.
From e-mail from readers, I gather that audibility problems are not uncommon to New York theatergoers.
From e-mail from readers, I gather that audibility problems are not uncommon to New York theatergoers.
The Transport Group's exceedingly intimate revival of "Hello Again" rips the shirts (and dresses) off its characters' backs.
Propeller, the British theater troupe that routinely turns Shakespeare into a donnybrook, pumps "Comedy of Errors" full of testosterone at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
"Arcadia," Tom Stoppard's tale of two centuries in pseudopastoral England, is propelled by genuine, panting passion.
There's so much flying going on in the theater these days you wonder if an aviator's license won't soon be mandatory for participation in show.
How do you feel about the art of flying as part of the art of theater?
"Peter and the Starcatcher" brings to the stage Dave Barry and Ridley Pearson's popular prequel to "Peter Pan."
A revival of "That Championship Season" has Kiefer Sutherland making his Broadway debut.