Review: In 'The Total Bent,' a Father-Son Rift and a Sensational Score
A preacher spars with his gay son in this fresh and funny if sometimes wayward musical filled with soulful music.
A preacher spars with his gay son in this fresh and funny if sometimes wayward musical filled with soulful music.
The classic story of Orpheus and Eurydice has been told for centuries, and now it has become a folk opera by the gifted songwriter Anaïs Mitchell.
The play, which stars Joe Morton as the comedian and civil rights activist Dick Gregory, feels as vital as Mr. Gregory's work did in the 1960s.
This powerful new drama by Paula Vogel sheds light on a time when history, Jewish culture and the depiction of lesbian love explosively intersected.
Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes's ensemble drama, which opened at the Signature Theater on Sunday, sympathizes with Philadelphia waifs and strays.
Bobby Steggert portrays the French painter's bohemian days and nights in the Montmartre section of Paris.
A couple, played by Tim Daly and Rachael Holmes, are unsettled after one of them invites a guest to their home in this work, at City Center Stage II.
Dianne Wiest delivers a fearless performance in a play that examines the trap that human life can become, at Yale Repertory Theater.
In this play at Second Stage Theater, Ben Platt plays a student with no friends who suddenly finds people drawn to him for the wrong reason.
This musical, directed by Michael Greif, stars Ben Platt as a teenager whose life takes a sudden turn.
Casey Nicholaw's Broadway musical avoids flashy tricks and easy sentiment, showing a natural feel for this story about a secret fountain of youth.
Becky Mode's one-man play has moved to Broadway, starring Jesse Tyler Ferguson as the poor guy who arranges five-star restaurant reservations for five-star people.
This musical, set in a diner and scored by Sara Bareilles, centers on a woman stuck in an unhappy marriage.
James Earl Jones II plays a Republican lawyer in "Carlyle," while "Hillary and Clinton" portrays a fictionalized Mrs. Clinton running for president.
This new drama by Tracy Letts follows the life of its title character at various stages, moving in a nonlinear progression.
This Gotthold Ephraim Lessing work, translated and updated, includes a loaded question as it focuses on the themes of faith and family.
Ike Holter's drama at the Cherry Lane Theater depicts a Chicago high school's faculty, and some students, trying to save their institution.
This year's Humana Festival of New American Plays includes "This Random World," "Wellesley Girl" and Sarah Ruhl's "For Peter Pan on her 70th birthday."
This cycle presents four Shakespeare history plays, both parts of "Henry IV" bookended by "Richard II" and "Henry V."
This Aaron Posner play loosely adapts "The Seagull" and notably breaks the fourth wall with regularity.
Steve Martin and Edie Brickell are behind this slice of vintage Americana that gives Carmen Cusack her Broadway debut.
Claire Danes and John Krasinski are rival partners at a private equity firm in Sarah Burgess's play about shenanigans in the world of big money.
This Labyrinth Theater Company production depicts a mother in denial about her insolvency and two daughters who seem to share her heedlessness.
The New York stage veteran Marin Ireland gives a performance of beautiful complexity in Martyna Majok's quietly gripping play.
In the comedy-drama "Dry Powder," at the Public Theater, an equity firm and its top executives behave very badly.