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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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Thursday, February 5, 2026
Wednesday, February 4, 2026
Libby Howes was an imposing presence onstage with the Wooster Group. But after abruptly leaving New York in 1981 she became a theater world mystery. What happened?
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"Watch Me Walk," "Ulysses" and other offerings from Under the Radar and the Exponential Festival engage with personal histories and the works of literary lions.
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Thursday, December 18, 2025
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Sunday, November 30, 2025
The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking.
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"Coyote," a new biography by Robert M. Dowling, recounts how the cowboy laureate of American theatre invented himself.
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The Broadway veteran stars as a Marie Antoinette wannabe in a musical about excess, and Anne Washburn goes post-apocalyptic with "The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire."
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The playwright Samuel D. Hunter tailors a family drama to the actress's specific gifts; at Powerhouse: International, the artist Carolina Bianchi explores violence against women.
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