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Innovative musical theater Off Broadway is having a fertile season, with characters including superheroes, a serial killer and Alexander Hamilton.
In the play "And I and Silence," two prisoners form a bond in prison while contemplating a future on the outside.
"Wicked," which passed the 10-year mark last fall, evinces little sign of box office fatigue, especially among tweens.
"Family Album," at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is a new musical about a band, by Stew and Heidi Rodewald.
"The Great Society," at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, is the second installment in Robert Schenkkan's Lyndon B. Johnson saga.
Revisiting "The Phantom of the Opera," the long-running Andrew Lloyd Webber tale of love, obsession and murder.
The Stratford Festival presents an opportunity to relate the themes of Shakespeare's seldom-staged history play "King John" to those of "King Lear."
Peter Sellars directed only one of two productions of "A Midsummer Night's Dream" at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival, but his touch can be seen in both.
In "The Opponent," Brett Neveu's play at the 59E59 Theaters, a young fighter preparing for a big match pops by his old gym to see his onetime trainer.
This season, A. R. Gurney is in residency at the Signature, and the first production is a revival of his 1977 work "The Wayside Motor Inn."
Aaron Posner's a tarter "sort of" adaptation of Chekhov, returns to the Woolly Mammoth in Washington.
Anna Gunn and Billy Magnussen star in "Sex With Strangers," a twisty and timely new play by Laura Eason, at Second Stage Theater.
A young woman finds herself caught between her rich but abusive husband and her lesbian lover in Tanya Saracho's new play "Mala Hierba."
Elia Kazan's letters underscore his central importance in the maturing of American film and theater at midcentury.
"The Pianist of Willesden Lane," at 59E59 Theaters, is about a Jewish girl who escapes Vienna on the kindertransport and finds refuge in music while living without her family in London.
It's common to describe a talent as one of a kind or larger than life. And yet those words seem strictly accurate when applied to Elaine Stritch.
"Pump Boys and Dinettes," a jubilant yet plaintive musical revue at City Center, is set in a filling station and coffee shop in the rural South.
The quick closing of the Tupac Shakur musical, "Holler if Ya Hear Me," prompts a critical assessment.
In the musical "Pageant," all the contestants, played by men, vie for the title of Miss Glamouresse.
The midcentury musical "Brigadoon," set in a mystical Scottish town, has been given a first-class revival at the Goodman Theater in Chicago.
"The Qualms," at the Steppenwolf Theater in Chicago, is a ribald and funny if lightweight new play by Bruce Norris.
Sandra Oh, of "Grey's Anatomy" fame, stars in a different kind of doctor drama in Ariel Dorfman's "Death and the Maiden," in Chicago.
"Pageant" is a musical in which all the contestants in a beauty competition are played by men.
"Kaidan Chibusa no Enoki," a Kabuki ghost story from the Heisei Nakamura-za company, is at the Lincoln Center Festival.
The City Center Encores! Off-Center series presents "Randy Newman's Faust," with the composer playing the Devil.
