Review: 'Ride the Cyclone,' About Teenagers, and Angst, in Purgatory
Members of a school choir meet their deaths on a roller coaster and must compete for redemption in this musical at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
Members of a school choir meet their deaths on a roller coaster and must compete for redemption in this musical at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
In Peter Parnell's new play at Lincoln Center, gay couples with children learn about having (or not having) it all.
A son comes home from war to a home in chaos in Taylor Mac's work at Playwrights Horizons.
This Broadway musical with George Takei and Lea Salonga sets out to illuminate a dark passage in American history.
This musical about Emilio and Gloria Estefan tracks their career and marriage, including the accident that threatened her life.
Sarah Ruhl's play, at the McGinn/Cazale Theater, follows the mostly epistolary friendship of Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop.
Michael Kimmel's musical adaptation of "The Seagull," at 59E59 Theaters, is powered by a country score by Lauren Pritchard.
Mark Gerrard's play, directed by Cynthia Nixon for the New Group, a Broadway chorus boy who never quite made it has settled into his role as a dad.
Matthew Broderick, Annaleigh Ashford and Julie White star in the first Broadway production of A.ÂR. Gurney's 1995 comedy.
This comedy-drama by Stephen Karam traces the connections and tensions in a Pennsylvania clan that is assembling in Manhattan for a holiday dinner.
Daphne Rubin-Vega stars in this meaty play about the ups and downs of a police officer's daughter who becomes involved in an unappetizing scheme.
This pert spoof of 1930s movie musicals, which first opened in 1966, still provides lively diversions for those in search of yesteryear's delights.
This odd and often beguiling show written by César Alvarez with his band the Lisps is a show made for brainiacs.
This play by Abe Koogler at the Claire Tow Theater is about an ex-convict who works at a slaughterhouse as she tries to rebuild her relationship with her vegan son.
In Danai Gurira's drama, the female prisoners of a rebel leader strive to preserve their humanity in the face of constant sexual abuse.
D.ÂL. Coburn's 1976 play, which opened on Broadway on Wednesday, showcases the talents of these long-established actors, who keep seeking further heights to scale.
Mamie Gummer plays a veteran of combat in Afghanistan adjusting to life at home and the pain of her injuries, both physiological and psychological.
Joe DiPietro's play at the Westside Theater, which stars Marlo Thomas, is a comedy-drama about infidelity and its consequences.
This comedy by Robert O'Hara, at the Public Theater, gathers two versions of the same family " one white, one black " to wrestle a member of the clan into rehab.
The festival, which runs into November, will present more than 50 new plays and musicals by women in theaters across the city.
John McManus's play tells of a developer who tries to make a deal with a gabby man in his bath.
This enigmatic dance-drama, whose set has a vaguely steampunk air, centers on a petulant tyrant and his minions.
This musical from the songwriters Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick is being described as an "intimate one-act reimagining" of "The Rothschilds," the 1970 musical.
Using their phones or tablets, audience members can take in special effects, YouTube videos and random arcana with live performances based on "The Wizard of Oz" movie.
Any qualms anyone might have about this being a premature revival will vanish when the cast of both hearing and deaf actors floods the stage.