Will Arbery's play explores the existential dread filling the minds of an Illinois city's public employees with the subtlety of a polar vortex.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24PM[SHARE]Their new Off Broadway play, a dark comedy about power, inheritance and, of course, witchcraft, is now in previews at Lincoln Center Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AM[SHARE]In Quiara AlegrÃa Hudes's new play at the Signature Theater, five performers try to summon generations of willful women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PM[SHARE]The Irish actor's one-man show on Broadway delves into painful and playful memories alike. He even imitates the oddballs of his Dublin boyhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:55PM[SHARE]Not quite a comedy and not quite a thriller, Kate Tarker's play is an antic study of two women preparing for a game (or possibly an attack).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PM[SHARE]How a real-life pro-Nazi summer camp on Long Island inspired a "deeply American play" about seduction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33AM[SHARE]The playwright Jiehae Park's sly and polished adaptation of "Macbeth" transports the characters from the Scottish heath to the halls of a Midwestern high school.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:19PM[SHARE]American Airlines Theatre, New York A diverse re-envisioning of the 1969 historical musical offers up some great opportunities for a game cast but struggles to justify its existence The firs…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 10:00PM[SHARE]A new play by Diane Davis at the New Ohio Theater addresses the topic head-on, but clumsily, our critic writes.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PM[SHARE]A Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman" has a Black lead for the first time, giving Pierce a chance to step into a role he was "born to play."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37AM[SHARE]A handful of works deal with the many questions of nourishment and nurture. How we feed. How we are fed.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37AM[SHARE]This three-actor play initiates a dialogue with Georg Büchner's "Woyzeck," examining men's violence against women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PM[SHARE]David Strathairn is remarkable in a solo show about Jan Karski, who was profoundly changed by what he witnessed during World War II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37PM[SHARE]We spoke to three actors and a playwright " Gregg Mozgala, Bonnie Milligan, Solea Pfeiffer and Noah Diaz " who are taking big shots this season.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34PM[SHARE]The comedian Kate Berlant's latest experiment, directed by Bo Burnham at the Connelly Theater, positions her as an actress with a semi-traumatic origin story.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:07PM[SHARE]The Broadway legend, who has won more Tony awards than any other performer, on what 'the American songbook' means to her "I'm trying to get to the truth of why I'm singing this song," says A…
SOURCE: The Guardian at 06:37PM[SHARE]Daniel K. Isaac's stylistically daring play at La MaMa doesn't quite fulfill its promise, but it suggests the playwright has more stories to tell.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PM[SHARE]This shimmering Shakespeare adaptation at the Delacorte Theater retains the outline of the original, while making space for songs. You don't have to sing along, though you may want to.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]The Tony-winning Broadway actor has made a career playing powerful women. Her latest is a drug queenpin inspired by 50 Cent's mother in the newest "Power" series on Starz.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07AM[SHARE]The new Elton John-Shaina Taub musical, based on the popular film about a fashion-world ingénue and her demanding boss, isn't yet ready-to-wear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]Themes of change, death and rebirth abound in this peculiar production, a triumph of style and low-budget ingenuity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PM[SHARE]Anne Washburn's 2012 play about a post-pandemic society reckoning with loss has not aged at all, our critic writes.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PM[SHARE]The Encores! revival of this fairy-tale musical, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, arrives on Broadway with its humor, wonder and humanity intact.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42PM[SHARE]Piety is just a pose in Ashley Tata's gender-swapped production of Molière's tragicomedy at Bard's SummerScape festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PM[SHARE]A new comedy by Steph Del Rosso starts as a satire of conservatives, then takes aim at progressives. Too bad the jokes barely cut either side.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]Our writer checked out two very different experiences in New York. In Netflix's TV re-creation, you fight Demogorgons. In "Cascando," you walk off your existential angst.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:03PM[SHARE]We spoke to the veteran actress as she returned to work, preparing for the opening of her new Off Broadway show "Corsicana."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM[SHARE]With war as a backdrop, Gab Reisman's lively comedy is content to hang out with a motley group of women at the dawn of modern capitalism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:03AM[SHARE]Adapted from a 13th-century drama, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's play is part ghost story, murder mystery and family melodrama.
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