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Lauren Yee's boisterous play "Mother Russia," about the origins of the contemporary oligarchy, has its roots in her San Francisco childhood.
Plays about addiction are filling Manhattan stages this month, depicting very different places on the recovery spectrum, from harrowing to serene.
Across the country, a flurry of theater productions, including "Black Swan" and "The Lunchbox," are mining the movies for material.
His New Federal Theater in New York provided a rare stage for Black playwrights and emerging actors, among them Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad and Chadwick Boseman.
Sean Hayes performs a new solo thriller, Alia Shawkat leads a play revival and Ethan Slater stars as Marcel Marceau in a world premiere.
The curtain is about to come down on two jukebox musicals, a thriller by Tracy Letts, and other Broadway productions.
Catch Kristin Chenoweth basking in the excess, and Bill and Ted having a Beckettian adventure, before the curtain comes down on their productions and others.
The actress stars in Thomas Kail's luminous revival of Eugene O'Neill's play about a woman whose past threatens her future.
Popping up once a year, works like Dickens's holiday tale, "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and "It's a Wonderful Life" help us gauge where we are in our lives.
Enticements abound in New York City, including Jinkx Monsoon crooning, Dickens reciting Dickens and, for the whole family, the Big Apple Circus.
Michelle Williams leads an O'Neill drama, Matthew Broderick stars in Molière, and plenty of stages brim with non-holiday fare, Off Broadway and beyond.
Kara Young and Nicholas Braun star in the Off Broadway revival of Rajiv Joseph's two-hander about best friends on parallel paths to self-destruction.
The movie star plays a man from the future at the 1939 New York World's Fair in an adaptation of some of his stories. Kelli O'Hara shines as his love interest.
Ruthie Ann Miles, Shuler Hensley and Micaela Diamond lead a dream-team cast in Ethan Lipton's musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth."
In Anne Washburn's darkly enigmatic play, a countercultural community hides the death of one of its own. But why?
Material excess can never be too excessive for the central character of this gilded Broadway musical, based on the 2012 film.
At Lincoln Center Theater, a new play from the makers of "The Jungle" tries to dramatize the negotiations that led to the Kyoto Protocol.
The playwright Samuel D. Hunter makes his Broadway debut with an addition to his Idaho oeuvre, set during the Covid-19 pandemic and its aftermath.
All four characters in this bleak tragicomedy, staged by the Druid theater company, share the human desire to hear the same tales again and again.
Ari'el Stachel's "Other" and Zoë Kim's "Did You Eat?" are self-interrogations that deal with family, race and identity.
A gleefully provocative new musical and a quiet 1930s domestic drama speak to each other across time, resounding quite loudly in our present.
Adapted for the stage, the baseball rom-com is now less sexy and sophisticated than the '80s classic.
Joshua Henry, Caissie Levy and Brandon Uranowitz lead the glorious cast of Lear deBessonet's inspiriting Broadway revival at Lincoln Center Theater.
An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper's pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.
The "Severance" actor portrays all the roles in a play she wrote with Frank Winters, inspired by her evangelical upbringing.
