'Hound Dog' Review: A Soul-Searching Journey Strays Off Course
Melis Aker's new play with music, presented by Ars Nova and PlayCo., follows a musical prodigy without drive or passion.
Melis Aker's new play with music, presented by Ars Nova and PlayCo., follows a musical prodigy without drive or passion.
The palace intrigue behind a mythic battle from 18th-century Japan is the subject of this bilingual play in Manhattan.
He might be the greatest Shakespearean actor you've never heard of. At last, New Yorkers will get to see his no-holds-barred portrayal of Hamlet in Thomas Ostermeier's production at BAM.
In Douglas McGrath's one-man show, his account of an experience as a teenager unfurls with the can't-look-away quality of a slow-motion crash.
After the twists and turns of a pop career, the British singer-songwriter adds a new string to her bow: musical composer.
They both first made a splash in the '90s. They're now in New York to present new theatrical memoirs that mix storytelling and songs.
"300 el x 50 el x 30 el," the Belgian troupe FC Bergman's ambitious theatrical installation, will open BAM's Next Wave festival with an elaborate set that recreates a rural settlement onstag…
This musical may lack the 1989 movie's nihilism, but the gags still work and the songs are great " who are we to quibble?
Michael John LaChiusa's delicate new musical starts in Depression-era California and follows two people across six decades.
The Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein musical, in which the drag queen Lola saves a provincial shoe factory, makes an Off Broadway return at the spacious Stage 42.
After reporting on the Creede Repertory Theater last summer, our writer returned for her vacation and took stock as the company restarted indoor performances.
In her new autobiographical solo play, the actress Jade Anouka recounts the joys and fears of falling for a woman after her marriage to a man ends.
The splashy show, an example par excellence of what makes modern French musicals distinctive, begins a run at Lincoln Center.
Robert Quillen Camp's play, about an antiracist discussion group, starts out naturalistically, but then pivots, with bloody abandon, to the absurd.
A gleefully juvenile show about the Belgian star, from the writer Timothy Haskell, barrels through his life and oeuvre using toy action figures.
The camp reimagining of the maritime blockbuster revs up into increasing absurdity and Celine Dion songs.
Angela Hanks's new comedy is set in Santa Fe, N.M., where five women of color have traveled for some fancy R&R laced with New Age spirituality.
A three-day retrospective will shine a spotlight on the group's most daring projects.
Honoring Pride, Juneteenth and the Fourth of July, the festival features Idina Menzel and Tonya Pinkins alongside poets, fire artists and marching bands.
Championing collaboration and digital projects, Mia Yoo is forging her own path at the experimental theater incubator.
The protagonist of this new play by Michael McKeever steps gingerly out of grief's stasis and into the unknown.
With its production of "The Orchard," juxtaposing the human and the virtual, the Arlekin Players continue taking creative leaps.
The playwright Trish Harnetiaux's new show, set entirely in a car, follows a family of travelers. It bravely, if not entirely satisfyingly, explores alternate realities.
Anchuli Felicia King's play about an internet firewall belongs to multiple genres all at once.
In her new comedy, Ana Nogueira spins zippy fun out of a fairly conventional story about a friendship strained by resentment.