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The new theater season features some intriguing partnerships.
With revivals of Leonard Bernstein’s “Candide” and Chekhov’s “Seagull,” the Goodman Theater in Chicago has pessimism on its mind.
The Public Theater’s new production of “Timon of Athens,” the inaugural Shakespeare Lab presentation from the company, stars Richard Thomas.
“The Whipping Man,” an atmospheric period drama by Matthew Lopez, has few equals in its arresting strangeness.
The Belasco Theater, a Broadway house known for its relative intimacy and its subtly gothic ambience, has been restored to its original grandeur.
Most of the best work this year — on Broadway and (mostly) off — was freshly minted. Here’s a Top 10 list that contains no revivals.
The revelation of Steppenwolf’s production of “Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?” in Chicago is Tracy Letts’s spellbinding performance of George.
The promise of “Now Circa Then,” a new comedy by Carly Mensch, is never fully realized in its intermingling of the past and the present.
In Susan Stroman's "apocalyptic vaudeville" at the American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass., Mandy Patinkin and Taylor Mac play two survivors passing the time.
In Emily Schwend's play, a journalist staking out a barn with ghost hunters seems to undergo a sudden change in personality.
The play, by Robert Askins, author of "Hand to God," takes a comedic look at Christian Domestic Discipline.
The original characters in this moving Pulitzer Prize-winning drama reprise their roles in this staging at the Barrow Street Theater.
Annie Baker's play, which had a short, controversial run at Playwrights Horizons, is reopening at Barrow Street Theater.
In this play, an artist in South Africa is dogged by apartheid as he paints boulders and stones to brighten a dry landscape.
This season, shows like "Disgraced," "Airline Highway," "Hand to God," "Skylight" and "The Visit" portrayed the plight of the poor, the dominance of the rich and the anger of the newly radic…
The Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris helped inspire Dael Orlandersmith's introspective work.
Domestic tensions at a birthday party dominate this play, Mr. Kinnear's debut as a writer.
The central characters in John Ford's play, from Red Bull Theater, are about as star-crossed from the get-go as you could get.
This darkest of the major musicals by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II fits quite snugly into even the most doom-ridden opera season.
The Oscar-winning actress plays a cocky pilot raining bombs down from afar on Iraq and Afghanistan in this play by George Brant, directed by Julie Taymor.
In Lisa D'Amour's dark comedy, the characters would rather not think about the unhappy past or the foggy future.
The stage adaptation of Boris Pasternak's novel and David Lean's film stars Tam Mutu and Kelli Barrett.
The Classic Stage Company's modern-dress production features Peter Sarsgaard as the Danish prince still coming to grips with the wedding of Gertrude to Cladius.
This documentary drama recounts the story of Jyoti Singh Pandey, who was subjected to a brutal gang rape in India that subsequently led to her death.
An oppressively antic show, about the uneasy relationship between a teenager and her mother, plays like a series of songs, scenes and sketches with little connecting tissue.
