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This ripped-from-the-headlines story has a strong cast and a worthy message. But it ought to be more thrilling than it is.Â
'Doubt,' one of the top ten American dramas of this century, is now back on Broadway in an impressive revival.
The veteran playwright-director tosses together two soiled souls"played by Cecily Strong and David Zayas"adds softener, and gives 'em a whirl.
Between now and the end of April a whopping 18 plays and musicals will open on the Great White Way. Here's the best of what's coming, both on and Off Broadway.
Page-filling blocks of strong words are unfurled in this campus drama, as playwright Itamar Moses articulates"passionately and eloquently"each side of weighty issues of the moment, from Isra…
The "And Just Like That..." and "Gilded Age" star talks about playing a performance artist (and seven other roles) in the Off Broadway show "The Seven Year Disappear."
In 'Spamalot,' Leslie Rodriguez Kritzer pays homage to"or shamelessly satirizes"pop icons. "They change every night," she says. "I do a little Celine Dion"although there are some people who …
Set 22 years from now " as climate change has doomed the bees and thus humanity " this high-concept play mixes sci-fi with black comedy.
This musical about a fabulist at a magazine draws on the Stephen Glass scandal of the '90s, but it's more than a bit of stretch itself.
"I learn more about directing while acting and more about acting while directing," says David Cromer, who directed 'Prayer for the French Republic' on Broadway and is currently appearing in …
Set entirely at group therapy sessions, this 80-minute exploration of psychodynamics and healing may leave you wishing for characters with more interesting problems.
Foster generates waves of zany ecstasy in this delightful concert version of this fractured fairytale for City Center Encores.
In 'Maestro,' Michael Urie played choreographer-director Jerome Robbins. He now finds Robbins' spirit haunting the rehearsal spaces at New York City Center, where he's performing in 'Once Up…
The performance metaphorically and physically draws us into the many strands of a multifaceted quest.
The London stage version of 'Stranger Things' is a prequel with impressive practical effects that provoke gasps and screams, and producers say it's Broadway bound.
A Jewish family " shaken by a recent rise in European antisemitism " uproots itself in Joshua Harmon's passionately argued play.
After playing the devil himself in 'Hadestown,' Patrick Page keeps it on the dark side with 'All the Devils Are Here: How Shakespeare Invented the Villain'
"I've got this idea for a musical, and I wondered if you wanted to work on it with me," Sondheim said to David Ives. Thus began the collaboration that resulted the adaptation of two Luis Bu�…
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's slow-burning satire of white privilege arrives on Broadway in an impeccable production with a dream cast, led by Sarah Paulson.
This jukebox musical alternates passionate renditions of Afro-Cuban son, danzón, and bolero with scenes in English that chart the lives of musicians across four decades of love and loss.
"My character didn't exist a year ago," Broadway veteran Chip Zien says of his role as the Rabbi in Barry Manilow and Bruce Sussman's long gestating musical. "It's a real gift."
'How to Dance in Ohio' was clearly made with love, but this musical adaptation of an HBO documentary about autistic people learning to dance tries to balance good intentions and razzle-dazzl…
Using music, dance, puppets, miming, and physical comedy, the Happenstance Theater brings late medieval paintings to life.
Mary Kathryn Nagle's play shifts between the Dutch colonization of Manhattan and the subprime mortgage crisis, a concept that looks good on paper but diminishes the characters and their choi…
'Translations' is the first of three Brian Friel plays that Irish Rep is staging this season. "It has a kind of politics, but it's so embracing of human life," director Doug Hughes says.
