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"La Soirée," a hybrid of circus and burlesque show at the Union Square Theater, offers quirky twists on classic routines.
An adaptation of "An Enemy of the People," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater, updates the play into a critique of modern society.
"Murder for Two," a vaudevillian mystery musical with an energetic two-man cast, is now playing at New World Stages.
In "Nothing to Hide," the magicians Helder Guimarães and Derek DelGaudio mesmerize the audience with nothing more (or less) than playing cards.
"Disaster!," a musical at the St. Luke's Theater, trawls through plotlines and characters from 1970s movies like "The Poseidon Adventure" as well as '70s pop music.
"After Midnight," on Broadway, time-travels back to the heyday of the Cotton Club as it moves through more than 25 songs from the jazz era.
"A Midsummer Night's Dream" may have earned its high berth on the Shakespeare hit parade because it's a bundle of high-spirited hijinks, but its view of love is divided. &nb…
"The Last Goodbye," based on "Romeo and Juliet," relies on Jeff Buckley's music to supply the emotional resonance and depth of character established by Shakespeare's verse. …
"Nothing to Hide" is a slick, smart new magic show starring two young talents, Helder Guimarães and Derek DelGaudio.
Foundry Theater's sublime production of Bertolt Brecht's "Good Person of Szechwan" reopens at the Public Theater.
The Irish Repertory Theater revives "Juno and the Paycock," Sean O'Casey's classic about a buffeted Dublin family, with J. Smith-Cameron in the title role.
In J C Lee's "Luce," a provocative essay forces parents to question how well they know their son.
"A Time to Kill," a new Broadway play adapted from the John Grisham novel, moves through a tale of rape, murder and justice amid the racial tensions of the deep South.
In "The Winslow Boy," a Terence Rattigan play now being revived by the Roundabout Theater Company, a father wages a long campaign to clear his son's name, regardless of the impact on the fam…
"Mildred Fierce," a musical spoof of the 1945 movie "Mildred Pierce," at Theater 80 St. Marks, features the drag star Varla Jean Merman.
Thomas Kilroy's version of "The Seagull," an adaptation of the 19th-century Chekhov play, stars Trudie Styler.
In "A Night With Janis Joplin," Mary Bridget Davies brings a positively uncanny vocal impersonation, interspersed with some quieter reflections, to Broadway.
A country is thrown into chaos when its leaders descend into conflict in Shakespeare's "Julius Caesar." Does this sound slightly familiar?
The jazz singer Dee Dee Bridgewater stars as Billie Holiday in the musical biography "Lady Day," at the Little Shubert Theater.
In the dark comedy "Bad Jews," two cousins argue ferociously over who's more worthy of a family heirloom.
"Mildred Fierce," making its New York premiere, is a loving musical parody of the movie that won Joan Crawford her Oscar.
In "The Velocity of Autumn" at Arena Stage in Washington, Estelle Parsons is a feisty old woman who becomes an urban terrorist to avoid being forced from her Brooklyn home. …
Times readers seemed to suggest that more often than not, theater directors are the villains when it comes to fiddling with Shakespeare's plays.
The Actors Company Theater is presenting "Natural Affection," a play by William Inge that hasn't had a major New York revival since its Broadway premiere, in 1963.
"Not What Happened," by Ain Gordon, looks at how we interpret the past.
