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From new shows like "Macbeth" and "A Strange Loop" to long-running Tony Award winners, a rundown of everything you need to know.
Decidedly anti-sensationalistic, Alison Leiby's shrewd and funny personal monologue plays downtown. Uptown, a staged reading focuses on a gruesome case.
Mona Mansour's rich trilogy, now at the Public Theater, follows a displaced Palestinian family.
Now starring in "Wish You Were Here," the Iranian-born actress has made her mark in three works by playwrights of Middle Eastern descent.
In a mishmash new musical based on his 1992 movie, he charms the audience as a has-been comic reconnecting with family.
Camille A. Brown's revival of Ntozake Shange's 1976 Broadway landmark brings exuberant life to a play that celebrates Black women's solidarity in the face of pain.
A new musical-comedy retelling of "The Odyssey" from the York Theater Company tries to center a powerful woman but feels like a show about and for men.
In Keith Huff's new play, two friends head to the Jan. 6 insurrection, but this production substitutes unfunny cartoonishness for the characters' humanity.
In this international production, you can check into the Balkan Express Motel, if you dare, and fulfill an ancient generational curse.
This early 1990s play, based on the life of Marshall McLuhan, is being revived by the company that created it.
Huang Ruo and Basil Twist's new choral-theater piece at St. Ann's Warehouse borrows from traditional Chinese tales.
John J. Caswell Jr.'s play is a political drama wrapped in the spooky pleasures of the horror genre.
Grief for a lost love is the unhealed wound at the core of this play by Agnes Borinsky, which takes a disquieting turn into the underworld.
Lloyd Suh's play is a riff on the arrival of the real Afong Moy, possibly the first woman from China in the United States, and a lens on contemporary racism.
While full of fine shows, a long-awaited binge was also full of stress about how loosely audiences followed rules about staying healthy in a pandemic.
Five Asian American actors, all over 60, deliver monologues that touch on grief and heritage, on adult children and cultural cancellation.
In this D.H. Lawrence play, a production by the Mint Theater, men are trouble, "pure and simple."
The actor will be making his New York stage debut with Jamie Lloyd's Olivier Award-winning production, coming in April to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Arin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play, a Theater for a New Audience production that begins previews Saturday.
The return of this brisk, smart provocation of a monologue is a cheering development, all the more so because it's a belly-laugh funny show.
This opera, by Mac and Matt Ray, is as much a celebration of theater itself as it is an example of the communion humans crave but have been deprived of.
Theaterlab stages a gimlet-eyed romance involving a girl and a young Nazi soldier in Occupied France by the playwright Rita Kalnejais.
With one play closed, Nottage can focus on "MJ" on Broadway and "Intimate Apparel" at Lincoln Center Theater. And maybe even catch her breath.
The experience of Jews who fled Germany in 1939 aboard the St. Louis luxury liner is the subject of a new production from the Arlekin Players Theater.
The pandemic shutdown gave the actor time to reconnect with his clarinet, helping him fully realize his character, a lost-in-grief musician.
