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America Ferrera stars in "Bethany," a Laura Marks play that uses the economic downturn as a major part of the plot.
"Hamlet, Prince of Grief," in the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater, is a 30-minute, one-person version of "Hamlet" presented by the Leev Theater Group of Iran.
In "Ruff" Peggy Shaw ruminates on life before and after her stroke, investigating the workings of her mind and memory in an impressionistic monologue that's admirably unsentimental.
"C'est du Chinois," part of the Under the Radar festival, is a no-frills, no-drama production: 80 minutes of energetic language instruction, performed by a (fictional) family from Shanghai.
In "The Other Place" Laurie Metcalf plays a pharmaceutical-company scientist who is convinced she has a brain tumor.
"Water by the Spoonful," the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes, at the Second Stage Theater, is a moving collage of lives in crisis.
Theater made "Les Misérables" part of the canon of the most successful musicals. What has film done with the screen version?
"Nothing to Hide," "Coney Island Christmas" and "Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots" each involve make-believe at varying levels of sophistication.
In "The Great God Pan," by Amy Herzog, a man's existence is upended by the suggestion that he is a victim of childhood sexual abuse.
The new revival illustrates the problem with importing English productions, and depending on celebrity casting, for Broadway.
Melissa James Gibson's new play, "What Rhymes With America," is a touching, sorrowful comedy.
Onstage in 2012 there were sidesplitting comedies and rich dramas but not many exceptional musicals.
In Robert Askins's "P. S. Jones and the Frozen City," the protagonist has heroic dreams in a postapocalyptic world.
"Dear Elizabeth" distills hundreds of letters between Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop into a play at the Yale Repertory Theater.
Kathleen Turner plays the leading role and directs the 1964 play "The Killing of Sister George" at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven.
Lincoln Center Theater's blistering production of Clifford Odets's "Golden Boy," directed by Bartlett Sher, features a superb cast of almost 20 actors.
In "Golden Age," Terrence McNally's latest play, he sets the action on the opening night of Bellini's opera "I Puritani," in Paris in 1835.
"A Civil War Christmas," by Paula Vogel, sets history as a backdrop to human dramas.
By the time it closes, "Glengarry Glen Ross" will have played a full half of its run without having to face any official critical scrutiny.
"A Christmas Story," based on the popular 1983 movie and set in Indiana in 1940, glows with sepia-toned nostalgia for a Simpler Time.
Theater tickets can be as expensive as they are popular, but there are lower-priced options.
"The Twenty-Seventh Man" is Nathan Englander's stage adaptation of his own short story about the fate that befalls a group of Jewish writers in Russia during Stalin's rule.
The Signature Theater's revival of August Wilson's "Piano Lesson" brings a timely reminder of how consoling, how restorative, how emotionally sustaining great theater can be.
"We Are Proud to Present a Presentation," at SoHo Rep, puts the audience square in the middle of deliberations over how to put on this play.
"Donka: A Letter to Chekhov," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is a theatrical curio that might have made Chekhov smile. But that may be the only real relationship it has with that great wr…
