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Shakespeare’s brooding prince comes off as bored at the Brooklyn Academy of Music. But Bedlam’s lean production of “Othello” is positively thrilling.
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Lea Michele, Adrien Brody and other boldface names were left out, while June Squibb, André De Shields and Layton Williams as an iceberg were among the surprises.
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Wilson’s 2024 adaptation of Herman Melville’s classic, with music by the British singer-songwriter Anna Calvi, has a short run at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
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A Broadway musical adaptation of the 1987 movie gets a lot of mileage from ’80s rocker aesthetics and over-the-top spectacle — until its second half.
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This revival starring Cedric the Entertainer and Taraji P. Henson may be uneven at times, but it still unlocks Wilson’s mysterious drama.
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Sam Pinkleton’s new revival at Studio 54 gives us the big gay mayhem we want while also maintaining some order via Rachel Dratch’s droll Narrator.
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David Lindsay-Abaire’s comedy about a wealthy homeowners association thrown into disarray makes a case for the same social compact it skewers.
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The actress stars as a haunted genius opposite Don Cheadle as her father in David Auburn's 2001 drama. This revival, though, exposes the play's lack of rigor.
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Tuesday, April 7, 2026
For their 10th life, the cats strut and duckwalk in a reappraisal of Andrew Lloyd Webber's 1981 musical, which has shifted to the queer ballroom scene.
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The directors Michael DeFilippis, Dmitry Krymov and Aleksandr Molochnikov all infuse their current productions with a burning, modern rage.
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Sunday, March 22, 2026
Antigone, an ancient Greek play, is being adapted in several theaters across New York City. Our critic Helen Shaw explains why Sophocles's anti-heroine is such a relevant figure today.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:32AM[SHARE]"Antigone" gave us the original "bad girl," but its themes go beyond that. How do adaptations keep making Sophocles' ideas about democracy and theater new?
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Two monologue revivals " Jesse Tyler Ferguson as Truman Capote and Wallace Shawn's solo " reveal how wealth warps our perceptions. Only one pays dividends.
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Encores! revisits a Jazz Age tale of debauchery, with showstoppers from Jasmine Amy Rogers, Adrienne Warren, Jordan Donica, Tonya Pinkins and others.
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The actor's fondness for the audience radiates outward in this delightful interactive play about naming and noticing the good in the world.
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Thursday, March 5, 2026
The playwright and his collaborator André Gregory are together again, delivering a sumptuous set of interlinked monologues about life, death and betrayal.
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Tuesday, February 24, 2026
Clare Barron's gorgeous play, about an unmoored young woman returning home to care for her father, finds a new home at Cherry Lane Theater.
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Without the usual flood of new musicals, the playwrights of works like "Becky Shaw," "Dog Day Afternoon" and "Giant" are getting a chance to shine.
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Theater for a New Audience's reimagining of the Shakespearean tragedy misses an opportunity to engage the play's many echoes with our own tense era.
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Milo Rau's examination of the infamous broadcast that preceded the Rwandan genocide is onstage now. Two other works, including "The Pelicot Trial," arrive in March.
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The chameleonic actor takes on several characters in David Cale's solo play about a writer in pursuit of his stalker. Or is it all in his mind?
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