
Joey is still a heel in this major revision of the 1940 antihero musical, but he's now a Black artist trying to find his true voice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]A story considered too dark for Broadway in its time is too much of a patchwork in ours.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07PM[SHARE]David Adjmi's riveting new play, with songs by Will Butler, is about a '70s band that nearly destroys itself making an epochal album.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19PM[SHARE]This inventive, beguiling and not quite fully solved puzzle of a show is a worthy and loving farewell to the great musical dramatist.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:03AM[SHARE]The history of movable type is a terrible idea for a show. Which is why it's so on brand for this satire of theater and its eternal hopefuls.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:19PM[SHARE]Jonathan Groff, supported by Daniel Radcliffe and Lindsay Mendez, is thrillingly fierce in the first convincing revival of the cult flop Sondheim musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:07AM[SHARE]Jocelyn Bioh's Broadway playwriting debut, set in a Harlem hair braiding shop, is a hot and hilarious workplace sitcom.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PM[SHARE]Ossie Davis's 1961 play is no period piece, as a blazing and hilarious revival starring Leslie Odom Jr. testifies.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PM[SHARE]In Donald Margulies's heavy-handed new play, Reed Birney is terrific as a farmer forced by his wife, played by Karen Allen, to face his grief.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:43AM[SHARE]Rebecca Gilman's play, set in a rural farmhouse, sees an image of the decline of Americans' interdependence in the death of wildflowers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19PM[SHARE]Illness is no metaphor, and neither is pleasure, in Annie Baker's weird and great new play set at a fasting clinic.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:55PM[SHARE]Remaking a vintage musical for the 2020s takes guts, sensitivity and perhaps a medium.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:49AM[SHARE]Remaking a vintage musical for the 2020s takes guts, sensitivity and perhaps a medium.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:04AM[SHARE]A joyful, bumpy musical version of Shakespeare's late romance closes the Delacorte Theater before an 18-month renovation.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:33AM[SHARE]A smash, a romp, a mess and a mystery are part of this Ontario festival's 12-play repertoire after two seasons of retrenchment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07AM[SHARE]Barrington Stage Company's revival of the 1998 musical brings vocal luster and newfound relevance to the story of a songwriter's near-death experience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:34AM[SHARE]Just when you thought it was safe to go back in the theater, a play about the making of Hollywood's first summer blockbuster bobs up on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:37PM[SHARE]"Candide" in an opera house. "Spamalot" and "Rent" cheek by jowl with Shakespeare. But treating them as classics may not be doing them justice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:49PM[SHARE]The addition of 17 songs turns the 1985 sci-fi classic into a big "why?" musical with a big wow factor.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PM[SHARE]This peculiar early Shakespeare comedy gets updated with 10 songs for a youthful alfresco production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:55AM[SHARE]Jason Alexander directs a Broadway farce that aims for the high style of Noël Coward but falls on its face instead.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33PM[SHARE]A new Broadway musical tells the disturbing story of Imelda Marcos by putting her, and the audience, in a disco.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:07PM[SHARE]The Public Theater's alfresco production has plenty to offer audiences who know the play already. But it may not be so easy for newcomers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:55PM[SHARE]Is it a stand-up act or a morality play? Either way, Alex Edelman's look at race, religion and the limits of empathy is at home on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:33PM[SHARE]In lyrics of rare humor, elegance and compassion, the man who put words to "Fiddler on the Roof" and "She Loves Me" explored the complex emotional architecture of love.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PM[SHARE]A revival of the 1998 revisal of the 1966 musical highlights the stories of trans and nonbinary performers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PM[SHARE]Robert Icke's surgery on a 1922 play about the disease of antisemitism turns it into a riveting debate about identity. But at what cost to the patient?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:43PM[SHARE]The writing is on the wall: With or without writers, the Broadway awards are a strangely bland and canned way to celebrate a thrillingly live medium.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:07PM[SHARE]With a clever opening number and repeated support for striking writers, the Tonys celebrated Broadway's shows, performers and creative teams.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:07AM[SHARE]Tori Sampson's look at the Black Panther movement is a warm sitcom that becomes a jarring inquest into a real murder.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:49PM[SHARE]In his haunting new play, Branden Jacobs-Jenkins updates the reunion genre with too much jungle juice and an otherworldly visitor.
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