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The deep, dark tragicomedy by Bruce Norris is set in a group home for sex offenders.
Yilong Liu's new play toggles between China in 1984 and the United States in 2021.
A play based on the writer's memoir about the death of her husband, in its first New York revival, goes small to powerful effect.
In a probing new play from the Civilians, based on the book "Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind," current and former members of the clergy grapple with the reality of losing their r…
At Irish Arts Center, a wry, experimental iteration doesn't do much to untangle the playwright's unwieldy early work.
Best known for her 1995 hit song "I Kissed a Girl," the enchanting singer-songwriter Jill Sobule is the star of a winsome and defiant autobiographical musical.
The playwright, whose Pulitzer-winning "Cost of Living" is now on Broadway, talks about "the precarity of life" and our inherent need to be taken care of.
Emma Rice's glorious stage adaptation of Emily Brontë's novel is a feat of storytelling, with a singing and dancing chorus embodying the moors.
Melissa Etheridge's limited run at New World Stages is a celebration of its smoky-voiced 61-year-old star, and contains some confessions, along with her hits.
A husband and wife who may be the "astrological doubles" of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed head toward a crisis in this new play by Kareem Fahmy.
"My Onliness" is voluptuous and frenetic, while "This and That" is a slip of a show. Both are pleasingly peculiar.
The actor David Greenspan is a tour-de-force, taking on all the roles of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's large-cast opera from 1934, sans music.
Steven Fechter's "The Memory Exam" begins with a promising setup, our critic writes, while Grant MacDermott's marriage story "Jasper" struggles for emotional resonance.
In the solo play "Remember This," David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.
Cameron Darwin Bossert's smart new play fictionalizes a 1941 labor dispute to explore the tension between passions and paychecks.
Two young men wander the city before they both must say farewell and return to very different lives.
Johnny G. Lloyd's new play about a solitaire champion examines talent, ambition and the rising stakes of success when you're Black.
The experimental theater maker Aya Ogawa ponders her distant father as well as failure and forgiveness in "The Nosebleed" at Lincoln Center Theater.
Anastasia Hille is riveting as Klytemnestra in Robert Icke's production of "Oresteia" at the Park Avenue Armory.
With age-blind casting at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, two actors who have been married for 38 years play the teenage leads.
This vaudevillian show at La MaMa in Manhattan is like a party where weed is the guest of honor, thrown by ardent, uncritical hosts.
At the Williamstown Theater Festival, Daniel Fish's "Most Happy in Concert" confounds and Anna Ouyang Moench's "Man of God" raises it own question.
The 81-year-old actress stars as an eccentric dinner party host. When she was a teenager, though, wanting to act was a secret she didn't dare tell.
A new Off Broadway musical, based on the best-selling young adult novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, is uneven but sweet, our critic writes.
At an uptown amphitheater, the Classical Theater of Harlem stages Shakespeare's comedy with fizzy delight.
