Friday, November 8, 2024
Pulling back the curtain on the peculiar customs and enduring superstitions that help define life backstage.
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Dominique Morisseau’s new play explores the tensions between a Haitian American woman and her Haitian-born cousin.
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Two years after debuting the “Titanic” parody, Marla Mindelle says her new show, with Margot Robbie as a producer, may be her last as an actor.
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The actor Krysta Rodriguez has found an avid audience for her new side business: creating dramatic interiors.
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Henry Hoke’s 2023 novel, “Open Throat,” narrated by an animal in peril in the Hollywood Hills, is adapted for a staged reading.
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In José Rivera’s latest play, a Puerto Rican family moves to Long Island in 1960, contending both with Hurricane Donna and their neighbors’ hostility.
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In Charles Busch’s satire of Henrik Ibsen’s plays, a widow faces a rather catty fight to save her husband’s legacy.
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Friday, January 12, 2024
“Queens of Sheba” and “Volcano” at Under the Radar, and “Bacon,” at International Fringe Encore Series, expound on identity, captivity and violence.
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A new revival directed by Emily Mann and starring Tim Daly leans into its flailing characters’ confusions.
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Michael John LaChiusa’s beautifully sung tribute to sisterly admiration, starring Priscilla Lopez, was inspired by the early life of the show’s director, Graciela Daniele.
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Friday, September 22, 2023
In Max Wolf Friedlich’s nimble play, a crisis therapist tries to connect with a tech worker who is broken by her profession.
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In “Once Upon a One More Time,” Jennifer Simard finds value in seeing “how small you can make something and achieve a big result.”
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Old relationships bend, then break, in Danny Tejera’s finely detailed character study of languishing jet-set twentysomethings.
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Borrowing its powers from Greek and Yoruba mythologies, Inua Ellams’s play tells the story of a demigod who becomes an N.B.A. superstar.
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The actor is starring in a modern-dress production of the play through Aug. 6 at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park.
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Justin Huertas’s indie-rock musical, in which he also stars, follows a young misfit whose first date spirals into a comic book adventure.
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Two men’s kindred obsession with a basketball player is the scaffold for Rajiv Joseph’s examination of male friendship at the Manhattan Theater Club.
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Wednesday, April 19, 2023
A new memoir traces the three-time Tony Award winner’s life and career working with Balanchine, Robbins and Fosse.
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A new show at the Wild Project in Manhattan imagines how a small 1950s community weathers the arrival of the mass media age.
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Thursday, March 16, 2023
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Thursday, March 2, 2023
The new work from Shayok Misha Chowdhury creates a strong enough center for the rest of its disparate parts to hold, and leaves the audience craving more.
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Depicting the final hours of a young fashion designer’s life, Caitlin Saylor Stephens’s play lacks the sturdiness to make its connection to real events believable.
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Presented by Richard Maxwell’s New York City Players as part of this year’s Under the Radar Festival, the two-act play tries to measure humanity’s progress.
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The Emmy-winning “Big Bang Theory” actor “could’ve done anything he wanted.” Now starring in the tear-jerker film “Spoiler Alert,” he’s forging his own path.
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The York Theater Company’s production is enthusiastically performed by a cast of seven. But the nostalgic revue pushes the limits of its case for the songwriter’s music.
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An overcomplicated one-act play addresses anti-Asian racism and mental illness at a Christmastime family reunion.
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City Center’s gala production delves further into America’s history of violence and delivers the best-sung musical in many a New York season.
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Andrew Rincón’s play about reigniting passions in the heavens and the bedroom is a jumble of genres at 59E59 Theaters.
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The actress, a Tony nominee for “The Skin of Our Teeth,” is bringing her sharp eye for comedy to Atlantic Theater Company’s production of “I’m Revolting.”
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The “Schmigadoon!” actress explains the things that keep her in a Broadway state of mind: her Vespa, Lizzo’s music and French Fries.
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Sophie McIntosh’s new play gathers five women in a college production for an exercise in youthful ambition and the corrupting clashing of egos.
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On the eve of a concert with three of the flop musical’s talented stars, time to celebrate a production that thrilled loyal fans — and at least one critic.
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The Ruth Stage’s production understands the violence and identity crisis at the core of Brick’s character, but other elements fail to cohere.
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Two Robert Icke productions have endured illnesses and last-minute casting changes. Now they have finally settled into a repertory groove.
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