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Adrienne Warren stars in "Room," Rachel Chavkin directs the satire "The Thanksgiving Play," accident-prone Brits put on "Peter Pan Goes Wrong," and more.
Most performance spaces in the city have been shut down since the start of the war. Some residents are reënacting experiences from the invasion themselves.
Nathan Lane and Danny Burstein rely on shtick in Sharr White's adaptation of Larry Sultan's book, while Norbert Leo Butz can't save the musical "Cornelia Street."
Burt Bacharach's complex, existential pop.
The actor, a fixture of New York's experimental-theatre scene, did not "become" his characters; he stood, somehow, next to them, amused and delighted.
At the Irish Repertory Theatre, John Douglas Thompson and Bill Irwin wring moments of superb physical comedy from two characters who struggle to move.
In "Small Talk," "Without You," and "cryptochrome," Colin Quinn, Anthony Rapp, and Evan Silver take the mike.
This raucously pro-choice musical, by the Philadelphia-based theatre collective Lightning Rod Special, sniffs out taboos and hunts them down at the pace of a sprint.
The New Yorker's co-theatre critics chat about "seven methods of killing kylie jenner," a puppet version of "Moby-Dick," and the other plays they saw during this year's event.
Recent shows' visions of the future haven't exactly been post-apocalyptic, with the violence and darkness that term implies. Instead, they have delighted in our disappearance, savored it.
A lot of people are completely delusional about their high-school theatre programs being special, but not us.
Getting lost with "Orlando," "My Neighbour Totoro," and "The Burnt City."
The return of the Public's annual festival includes "LatinXoxo," by the Venezuelan-born performance artist Migguel Anggelo.
After George Floyd's murder, Black artists like Britton Smith forced Broadway to acknowledge structural racism in the industry. Now Smith looks at what has changed"and what hasn't.
"Swagger and Tenderness," at the Bronx Museum, brings back the beauty of a struggling community.
The poet's new book of photographs and verse is haunted by the dead who will not stay dead.
The playwright and author discusses preshow rituals, throbbing anger, tenderness, and her new play, "Becky Nurse of Salem."
Brilliant casting and a palpable sense of joy make old stories feel new.
A very funny, moving new play looks at the foibles of a Protestant youth group. Plus: Adrienne Kennedy's Broadway début, with "Ohio State Murders."
The shows we couldn't stop thinking about had a way with words.
Even when the scenes drag, the songs soar.
Will Arbery tackles the climate crisis with a funny nightmare about human and environmental fragility.
A new musical, based on Billy Wilder's classic man-in-a-dress comedy, splices old-school fun with contemporary gender politics.
Mia Chung's drama, by turns comedic, bitter, and ineffable, shows how racism soaks through an American family.
Adrienne Kennedy's 1992 one-act play, which revisits the playwright's time in college, has its Broadway début, directed by Kenny Leon.
