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Defiance and justice drive this brisk staging from the Classical Theater of Harlem, directed by Carl Cofield.
Rajendra Ramoon Maharaj's visceral play with music explores an ugly historical chapter in the fight for school integration.
In this Charles Mee play, two sixty-somethings, who have never known true love, find the tender comfort of companionship.
There are shows that find their true best form in concert. "Songs for a New World," which was Jason Robert Brown's first musical, is one of these.
Lorena Hickok and Eleanor Roosevelt are just a few of the apparitions in Christina Quintana's bittersweet new comedy about a lesbian wrestling with her Catholic upbringing.
The women in Will Arbery's funny, surreal, ultimately muddled play devote vast emotional acreage to men who don't return the favor.
Natalie Soto and her brother, Christian, joined a training program at Roundabout Theater Company that aims to diversify the ranks of theater workers.
Certain moments are politically and artistically potent, but most of "Fruit Trilogy," a program of three short plays, is pervaded by a curious flatness.
In the middle of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child" and "Angels in America" are late-afternoon gaps to fill. We offer some ideas to pass the time.
Antoinette Nwandu's "Pass Over" considers the fate of young black men in a gun-torn city. Its first production caused a stir " and won a fan in Spike Lee.
In Nilo Cruz's poetic tangle of a play, an opera star finds the recipient of her husband's heart after he dies in a car accident.
Maly Drama Theater's spare, subdued " and slow " adaptation finds dreamy lovers split apart by political schemers.
Brad Birch's psychological thriller finds former lovers warily circling each other in Wales.
Marina Carr's blistering play seems ideal for this cathartic cultural moment. Its Irish Repertory Theater production is a missed opportunity.
The aftermath of the Fukushima disaster infiltrates the lives of a young couple in Toshiki Okada's spare, affecting play
Philip Dawkins's play blends realism and campy melodrama as it envisions the fumbling beginnings of an affair between Williams and William Inge
As the first black actor to play Billy Bigelow on Broadway, Mr. Henry is changing theater, while a newborn son is changing him.
The show had its premiere on Cape Cod two summers ago. It has been revised, but it retains its primary strengths and its fatal weaknesses.
Twins who discover they're far more than sisters are at the center of a high-tech sci-fi drama at Here.
A conquering hero comes home in a ferociously funny, and surprisingly timely, revival of the novelist's 1970 play.
Jason Grote and Marisa Michelson's new musical, set in modern-day New York, deconstructs the Middle Eastern folk tales of "One Thousand and One Nights."
First produced in 2011, this coming-of-age story about a pregnant teenager lands uncomfortably in the wake of #MeToo.
A solo show by Eliza Bent and directed by Knud Adams explores cultural appropriation " and how we can call it out when we see it.
The Bengsons are a folk-rock duo adapting their personal stories for the stage. But their new show, "The Lucky Ones," posed a painful challenge: "Is it possible to tell the truth kindly?"
In this Primary Stages production, Sharon Washington recalls how an enchanting period in her family's history was also tinged with pain.
