
Kathleen Chalfant, Elizabeth Marvel, April Matthis and other actors deliver top-notch performances in a play that leaves questions unanswered.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PM[SHARE]Fifty years ago, Junior LaBeija couldn't afford to see André De Shields in "The Wiz." Now, they're starring together in a reimagining of "Cats."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AM[SHARE]A revival of a 1964 musical, which puts a supernatural spin on a Noël Coward play, features a starry cast: Andrea Martin, Phillipa Soo, Steven Pasquale and Katrina Lenk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AM[SHARE]Opera Philadelphia's latest premiere is like an exquisite corpse, with a libretto by Michael R. Jackson and starring Justin Vivian Bond.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AM[SHARE]She watched the movie as a teenager, now the star of "School Spirits" and "Cobra Kai" is playing the acid-tongued queen bee Heather Chandler onstage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AM[SHARE]Other picks include "Bat Out of Hell: The Musical," a new season of Playing on Air podcasts and "Lazarus," featuring the music of David Bowie.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32PM[SHARE]The composer Michael Gordon collaborated with Foreman on "What to Wear" in 2006. The opera makes its belated New York premiere at BAM on Thursday.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PM[SHARE]Several festivals run across New York this month, but none are as big and eclectic as Under the Radar, founded in 2005. Here are our picks for what to see.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:24PM[SHARE]Matthew Broderick plays Tartuffe and David Cross his naïve prey in this Lucas Hnath adaptation of a 17th-century French comedy classic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PM[SHARE]Lea Michele's star turn in "Chess." Kara Young as an 8-year-old. A 12-minute monologue delivered from a cloud. These are our favorite scenes from this year.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM[SHARE]June Squibb stars in the Broadway premiere of Jordan Harrison's meditation on grief and the nature of human and artificial intelligence.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PM[SHARE]Spinning off Shakespeare, waltzing through Imperial Russia, bantering about literature or diving deeply into history, Stoppard shared his gifts on the screen.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PM[SHARE]"It's almost like a movie set," said the actor, now in the Christmas film "Oh. What. Fun.," "and I have to pretend I'm working, too."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:01AM[SHARE]James Bundy leads the theater program at Yale while directing his own revival of "Hedda Gabler." He told us about a week in his cultural life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AM[SHARE]A new production at the Public Theater takes up five hours of stage time to tell the story of a group of friends from their first day to graduation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02PM[SHARE]Adult actors play fierce middle-school spellers in a wonderful revival of William Finn and Rachel Sheinkin's musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]This new revival, starring Lea Michele, Nicholas Christopher and Aaron Tveit, is a reminder why the erratic yet rewarding show has endured all these years.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PM[SHARE]This month's picks include a ravishing Nyong'o in the return of Shakespeare in the Park, and an audio play starring Liev Schreiber and Maggie Siff.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AM[SHARE]The Oscar winner takes on a lovely yet tricky role in a Stephen Schwartz musical that never made it to Broadway back in 1976.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]Prince was mysterious, sexy. This adaptation of his 1984 film, onstage in Minneapolis, explains too much and comes off as disorienting.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06AM[SHARE]The Off Broadway shows "Hannah Senesh," "Jewish Plot" and "Playing Shylock" take stock of discussions around casting and storytelling.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:42AM[SHARE]Drew Droege's newest play Off Broadway is a lot like his others, skewering the entitlement of wealthy, oblivious gay men in Manhattan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48AM[SHARE]This movie adaptation has a couple of laughs, but could have been better served by expanding its reach.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AM[SHARE]Tom Hanks returns to New York theater alongside Kelli O'Hara, and Ariana DeBose leads "The Baker's Wife," a cult musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AM[SHARE]For its gala, New York City Center revives an antic show about a half-man tabloid sensation, with catchy music and lyrics by the versatile Laurence O'Keefe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:06PM[SHARE]Bess Wohl's play, about a consciousness-raising group in 1970s Ohio, transfers to Broadway where it remains powerfully moving " and funny.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PM[SHARE]This firebrand guitarist pulled songs from his lesser-known catalog for "Revolution(s)," about family of activists, now playing in Chicago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:02AM[SHARE]David Cale's astonishing one-man show in Brooklyn erects some familiar signposts before swerving into the unexpected.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12PM[SHARE]Like "Stranger Things" and "Harry Potter," this horror film franchise is branching out with an original story that aims to pull the rug from under theatergoers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AM[SHARE]This month's picks include Clooney's Broadway run as the CBS journalist Edward R. Murrow and an audio play starring Hugh Jackman.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42AM[SHARE]Jen Tullock's Off Broadway play, "Nothing Can Take You From the Hand of God," delves into growing up in a Christian family.
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