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In Christin Eve Cato's new backstage dramedy, an actress's plan to terminate a pregnancy collides with the rollback of reproductive rights.
Milo Cramer's new comedy about work, survival and the quest for a meaningful life opens Clubbed Thumb's venerable Summerworks festival.
Two plays at Irish Repertory Theater, one featuring a "Derry Girls" star, explore the real and the mythical in cultural identity.
On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one's dreams.
Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning "Dark Disabled Stories" with a rom-com.
One of the wonders of this glorious-sounding new Broadway production is how far from claustrophobic this Kentucky cave saga feels.
The maternal embrace of young men and their battles figures in two very different plays, one a solo work and the other a Brechtian riff starring Jessica Hecht.
With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play "The Swamp Dwellers," the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting out.
Mona Pirnot's comic ode to the downtown artist doubles as a meditation on the precariousness of playwriting as a creative life.
New short plays by Caryl Churchill, a comedy with one erstwhile Derry Girl and a musical starring Anika Noni Rose " here's what's on New York stages this month.
On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.
On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.
The protagonist of Chisa Hutchinson's new play is proud of his racial heritage, until he gets some unexpected test results.
Nia Akilah Robinson's new play, for Soho Rep, digs into an ugly historical practice.
Tim Curry and colleagues recall the musical's misadventure at the Belasco Theater in 1975.
Enda Walsh's formal experiment, at St. Ann's Warehouse, finds him in pared-back mode.
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson's "Girl From the North Country" and its passage through Broadway's pandemic shutdown.
Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman's 2023 ouster from OpenAI.
With their Tent Theater Company, Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes want to raise the profiles of older artists and keep them from being sidelined.
Also onstage in February: Calista Flockhart in a Sam Shepard revival, boldface names in Joy Behar's "My First Ex-Husband" and a marionette made of ice.
Three new plays onstage in Manhattan, "Kowalski," "Mrs. Loman" and "Nina," mine treasures of theater history.
Shakespeare's overstuffed late play gets an entertaining refresh Off Broadway, where Irish Rep is also offering a program of Samuel Beckett shorts.
In a new solo play about ordinary people under bombardment in Gaza, a woman rehearses how she would escape her building if Israeli forces were to strike.
Mischa Berlinski's shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge of playing Cleopatra.
Onstage, the flip-side of filial devotion has often been contempt. But a wave of forceful and multidimensional mothers suggests that may be changing.
