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In New York City, experience a live radio play, a Nicole Kidman-inspired “Christmas Carol,” an interactive production for children and more.
This frustratingly erratic play, by Tarell Alvin McCraney and Tina Landau at Vineyard Theater, revisits a Chicago drag queen’s 1992 presidential bid.
From a revival of August Wilson’s “Seven Guitars” to a musical parody of the reality show “The Traitors,” New York stages are full of creativity this month.
The show’s electronic dance-influenced music perfectly suits its story about a young man’s death and the rush to carry out a heart transplant.
The playwright Lauren Yee paints an amusing portrait of a Chinese American father-daughter relationship before taking audiences on a delightfully wild ride.
The Off Broadway shows “A Ghost in Your Ear” and “The 4th Witch” use aural and visual tricks to give you the seasonal spooks.
This new musical aims to tell a sexy story about perversions and pleasures but ends up blandly nodding at eroticism.
Verdi’s adaptation of the Shakespeare tragedy comes to movie screens around the world. And “Rent” holds a 30th anniversary concert.
“Tom at the Farm,” about a man visiting his dead lover’s farm, conjures a slippery rural setting at NYU Skirball.
The actor Jacob Ming-Trent faced numerous rejections. But in this solo play at the Public, he tells how he found redemption through the playwright’s worlds and words.
The TV series, our critic writes, gave us a slew of talented stage performers and used pop songs to help turn musical theater into mass entertainment.
The Scissor Sisters frontman is now playing Frank-N-Furter in “The Rocky Horror Show.” It suits his taste for horror and spookiness.
After opposing the Ukrainian war and settling in Latvia, Chulpan Khamatova now comes to New York to star in a dark comedy by Ionesco.
In translating synth pop to a theatrical format in the “American Psycho” musical, Sheik matched what he did with rock in the acclaimed “Spring Awakening.”
The fall season kicks off with a jam-packed month of riches, including experiments in docu-theater and performances by Lupita Nyong’o and Victoria Clark.
The Nashville songsmith J.T. Harding gives the lowdown on writing with Keith Urban, Uncle Kracker, Shane McAnally and more.
Other streaming picks include a deft “Winter’s Tale,” a reimagining of a solo show about sex work and a ’70s production of Chekhov by tweens.
John Cariani remains drawn to the state, despite having moved away years ago. A new production of his “Darker the Night, Brighter the Stars” illustrates why.
Concert versions and touring productions keep the spirit of 19th-century French revolutionaries alive.
A stirring but tonally muddled new musical about the “poison queen of Palermo” gets an elegant Off Broadway production.
Kerry Washington and Kara Young pay tribute to Whoopi Goldberg, while Raúl Esparza takes on Shakespeare in the Park.
The “Law & Order: SVU” actress “was really scared” about starring in “Every Brilliant Thing.” Who does she look to for inspiration? The Knicks, of course.
If you can’t make it to Shakespeare in the Park, check out a version starring Josh O’Connor. Other picks include Matthew López’s “The Inheritance.”
