17 Off Broadway Shows to Enliven Your October
André De Shields does Molière, Romy and Michele take the stage and Bat Boy makes his return just in time for Halloween.
André De Shields does Molière, Romy and Michele take the stage and Bat Boy makes his return just in time for Halloween.
As director of Odéon-Théâtre de l'Europe, one of France's top playhouses, Julien Gosselin is facing strong budgetary headwinds. But he's keeping his vision big.
For a British soldier, a fatal night out breeds a hunger for revenge in Leo McGann's suspenseful play at Irish Repertory Theater.
After his Tony win, Jonathan Spector returns with a dark, cerebral comedy involving academics and Stalin's daughter.
The actress stars in a closely observed new drama by Preston Max Allen about addiction, class and the safety of a transgender 9-year-old.
The company will perform the contemporary choreographer Hofesh Shechter's "Red Carpet" in California and New York.
The actor Tim Blake Nelson has penned a dystopian drama set in an unspecified future that puts forth lofty themes. Too bad it's short on specifics.
BRIC, the Noble Maritime Collection, Pregones/Puerto Rican Traveling Theater, the Bronx Children's Museum and the Louis Armstrong House Museum get a permanent investment.
Andrew Lloyd Webber's "The Phantom of the Opera" returns to New York in an immersive spectacle, as silly as it is thrilling.
James Graham's Broadway play tells the true story of how restorative justice brought together a young man who threw a fatal punch and the parents of the victim.
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jonathan Groff and Kieran Culkin were among the headliners who came out to support Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter's new collaboration.
Natalie Palamides's mind-scrambling work oscillates between big laughs and pathos. Her show "Weer" is the first long run at the renovated Cherry Lane Theater.
Jamie Lloyd's pristinely chic Broadway revival of the existential tragicomedy casts the "Bill & Ted" stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as Samuel Beckett's clowns.
The actor fits in tennis with his son, a writing session and lots of dancing before performing his new show at the Public Theater.
Kevin Carillo dreams up an unlikely combination, with results that are delirious and often persuasive, but also excessive.
A stage adaptation of the Nobel laureate Svetlana Alexievich's "The Unwomanly Face of War" gives Soviet women credit for their complex roles in World War II.
The Broadway play "Punch" retells the true story of a fatal blow and how restorative justice brought healing to the parents and to the young man who threw the punch.
Alice Birch's latest play offers two modish genres for the price of one: the trauma narrative and the earnest inquiry into masculinity.
For the first play he's written, the actor stars as a striving Colombian American patriarch in the mold of Willy Loman or Walter Younger.
No phones, no street clothing. The artist Rashid Johnson has returned to the Russian and Turkish Baths with Amiri Baraka's incendiary play "Dutchman."
Nicki Hunter will succeed Lynne Meadow in December, taking charge of a major nonprofit that stages shows on and off Broadway.
A night out with the composer as he attended his latest project: "Masquerade," a $25 million reimagining of "The Phantom of the Opera."
In this new hip-hop musical from Nygel D. Robinson and Brian Quijada, audiences hear a tale of reverse migration: Slaves leaving the United States for Mexico.
With the cost of staging song-and-dance spectacles skyrocketing and audiences drawn to older hits, none of the musicals that opened last season has made a profit. Fewer are planned this seas…
The choreographer's dances were athletic, often sexy, and dealt with contemporary themes. A two-week festival of his work comes to the Joyce Theater.