Monday, July 27, 2026
After recovering from a life-threatening stroke, a fame-hungry musical comedian contends with a worse fate: She might just be average.
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The comedian is contributing some 20,000 documents and photos covering his career, including his time in the Army and the lyrics for “Springtime for Hitler.”
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Sunday, April 19, 2026
Lust is the comic engine driving the action of a riotous revival of one of Noël Coward's early plays, with Rose Byrne and Kelli O'Hara, at Todd Haimes Theater.
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A raucous adaptation of a gritty portrait of New York stifles tension with comedy, leaving its stars, Jon Bernthal and Ebon Moss-Bachrach, adrift.
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Tuesday, March 24, 2026
Friday, March 6, 2026
Chris Fleming's wild way with language is both dazzling and hilarious in "Live at the Palace," an hour that veers in surprising directions.
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Taylor Tomlinson, Kevin Nealon, Chris Spencer, Isabel Hagen and Jackie Kashian deliver very different but very funny hours to get you through the cold.
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Not so fast. A new special from Raanan Hershberg shows how charged times can make for funnier jokes involving anxiety over Israel, Gaza and antisemitism.
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Thursday, January 8, 2026
Tracy Letts's eerily topical, decades-old play about a woman's descent into a world of conspiracy theories makes its nerve-rattling Broadway debut.
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The potential Warner Bros. Discovery sale might jeopardize a lively outlet for artier stand-up shows like those of Sarah Sherman and Adam Pally.
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Sunday, November 23, 2025
Nate Bargatze, Leanne Morgan and Dusty Slay are leading a family-friendly scene. Unlike earlier stand-ups, they don't look down at their cursing peers.
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Monday, November 10, 2025
The inventive comic actor delivers a commanding performance in Shakespeare's portrait of feckless leadership in a sleek Off Broadway adaptation.
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With a "Strangers With Candy" reunion, stars like Margaret Cho and hundreds of events across the city, how can you sort through the offerings? Try our guide.
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A documentary about the writer Jim Downey is streaming just as he can be seen in "One Battle After Another" and a new Tim Robinson series.
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Bill Burr, Dave Chappelle and others have framed their participation as a matter of open expression. Yet they're maddeningly vague about how much dissent is possible in Saudi Arabia.
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Natalie Palamides and Julia Masli are among the stars of a new clowning movement that revels in the comedy of failure. How did these fools become prestige?
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The stand-up's new YouTube special features a tight series of jokes that reflect a dramatic flair but also display his skill in a broad range of styles.
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Thursday, September 4, 2025
Dolly Parton in Vegas, a shrine to David Bowie, a new standup special from Kumail Nanjiani and other picks from our critics and writers.
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Sunday, August 17, 2025
As their magic act hits 50 years, they're bigger than ever. They say their secret is not to socialize. But misdirection is also their love language.
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The art form was already in decline; this may hasten its demise. But don't fret about the host. His talents are better showcased elsewhere.
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The term has fallen out of fashion, but the experimental spirit of the genre lives on in the refreshingly off-kilter Brent Weinbach and Eddie Pepitone.
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In his candid memoir "Comedy Samurai," the writer-director Larry Charles explains his comfort with failure and analyzes why creative collaborations end.
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Monday, March 24, 2025
In accepting the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, the comedian mounted a bristling political attack artfully disguised as a tribute.
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