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Adapted from the offbeat 2012 film, this new musical about loneliness and the longing for do-overs is promising but still needs to find its shape.
The Off Broadway plays "Fatherland" and "Blood of the Lamb" explore the grief, anger and fear of no longer recognizing the country you love.
But she did "burst into tears" reading Jez Butterworth's rewrite of his new Broadway play, which left her with 10 days "to create an entirely new character."
Holding tightly to the Dublin accent of her character, the actress talks about starring in Nancy Harris's feminist thriller at Irish Rep.
As the acclaimed "Counting and Cracking" makes its North American debut, the playwright describes the work as "my soul on a plate."
The Tony winner leads a top-notch cast in Zhailon Levingston's alluringly designed production of Douglas Lyons's hopeful new play.
Matthew Broderick stars in "Babbitt" in Washington, D.C., and five companies nationwide will stage Eboni Booth's Pulitzer-winning play "Primary Trust."
New York stages are welcoming Robert Downey Jr., Adam Driver, Audra McDonald and more this season.
Kristin Chenoweth stars in "The Queen of Versailles" in Boston, while a new "Gatsby" musical in Cambridge takes Myrtle seriously.
At Lincoln Center Theater, Phillip Howze's daring new play offers a hefty critique but takes aim at more targets than it can accommodate.
Fun is the main point of Carl Cofield's stylish outdoor staging of Shakespeare's comic fantasy for the Classical Theater of Harlem.
Marin Ireland's play opens with Tatiana Maslany in a rotating cast of stars, and "What Became of Us" continues its own experiment with changing casts.
In the Tony-nominated "Mother Play," the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to understand " and to forgive.
Shayan Lotfi's topical play about a family building a new life in a new country leaves the details vague, deliberately.
Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute "All of Me" " proof that depictions of disability onstage don't have to be "a buzz kill," as Ferris puts it.
In "The Playbook," James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.
Lauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones star in an achingly romantic, softly sexy new musical by Rachel Bonds and Zoe Sarnak.
Maia Novi stars in her play about a Hollywood-struck actress from Argentina who stops at Yale's drama school and an inpatient psych ward on her way.
The actress is back in concert mode at 76, and doing new material. She's also looking forward to a bold new take on "Sunset Boulevard."
Abigail and Shaun Bengson muse on death in their latest work, but its looseness makes it hard to get a handle on.
Steve Carell, William Jackson Harper, Alison Pill and Anika Noni Rose discuss the new translation of Chekhov that brought them to the farm.
This musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald's 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy.
At St. Ann's Warehouse, this documentary play about a London fire is blood-boiling and aggrieved.
"Agreement," at Irish Arts Center, and "Philadelphia, Here I Come!," at Irish Repertory Theater, have a timeless feel, rooted in their eras and resonant in ours.
