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"The Last Ship," a bleak musical with a score by the rock star Sting, is about an English shipbuilding town in decline.
A dinner party becomes a verbal jousting tournament in Ayad Akhtar's terrific, turbulent drama "Disgraced."
"Billy & Ray," a play written by Mike Bencivenga and directed by Garry Marshall, looks at the film "Double Indemnity" and its writers, Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler.
Joely Richardson plays Emily Dickinson in a new production of "The Belle of Amherst," directed by Steve Cosson at the Westside Theater.
"Employee of the Year," part of the Crossing the Line festival, follows a woman's tragedy and her search for her birth mother.
"Found" is a funny musical based on the odd snatches of writing published in the magazine of that name.
In "Jacuzzi," four people talk about their problems but at least two are careful not to divulge everything.
A revival of the 1953 Cole Porter musical "Can-Can" at Paper Mill Playhouse stars Kate Baldwin and Jason Danieley.
In "While I Yet Live," Billy Porter's depiction of one family's dramas over 10 years, S. Epatha Merkerson plays the mother at the center enduring the storms.
In Robert Wilson and Rufus Wainwright's "Shakepeare's Sonnets," actors from the Berlin Ensemble caper about to musical accompaniment as the poetry is recited or sung in German.
"When January Feels Like Summer," a romantic comedy by Cori Thomas, reopened at the Ensemble Studio Theater in Manhattan.
"Tail! Spin!," a comedy revisiting hanky-panky-in-high-office scandals, opened at the Lynn Redgrave Theater on Wednesday.
The Shakespeare's Globe "King Lear," presented at N.Y.U.'s Skirball Center, takes an informal and even festive approach to the tragedy.
The Berliner Ensemble returns to the Brooklyn Academy of Music, in tandem with the director Robert Wilson, to present "Shakespeare's Sonnets," featuring a score by Rufus Wainwright.
"Bright Star," a new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, is having its premiere run in San Diego.
"Mighty Real" is a slender but musically vibrant show about the androgynous pop star Sylvester.
In A. R. Gurney's "Love Letters," Brian Dennehy and Mia Farrow animate an epistolary romance " never consummated " that lasts from youth to old age.
Bridget Everett's show "Rock Bottom" features songs and stories that don't hold back.
The musical "Bull Durham," adapted from the 1988 movie and making its premiere at the Alliance Theater in Atlanta, feels more formulaic than inspired.
Nico, the 1960s chanteuse and muse to musical greats of the time, is resurrected by the singer and performance artist Tammy Faye Starlite in "Nico: Underground."
"Bootycandy," Robert O'Hara's searing and sensationally funny comedy, looks at attitudes toward gays in black culture.
Sylvester, the flamboyant androgyne and disco diva, has now become fodder for the latest jukebox musical.
A musical twist of Shakespeare's "The Winter's Tale," presented in Central Park by the Public Theater, spritzes the post-summer air with an invigorating sense of excitement and discovery.
Four short plays examine various aspects of "Miss Julie," August Strindberg's 1888 drama about a chauffeur and the boss's daughter.
A. R. Gurney's "The Wayside Motor Inn," being revived by the Signature Theater Company, presents five short dramas spliced together.
