
A classic tragedy, a curious musical and three new of-the-moment plays open Off Broadway this month
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48AM[SHARE]An intermittently thrilling new musical built around 22 Alanis Morissette songs seems to have 22 different themes, all worthy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PM[SHARE]An English professor may have chosen the wrong role model for his love life in "Faust." Just ask his wife. And his mistress.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Upstairs, the matriarch is ready to die. Downstairs, her adult children might kill each other first.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PM[SHARE]Twelve angry men and women await the return of a missing corpse in a revival of Stephen Adly Guirgis's dark comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]In Dominique Morisseau's new play, Detroit's mayor wants to clear "urban blight," but some black jazzmen say, "We the blight he talkin' about."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]A 2018 look at the 1986 Broadway version of a 1937 musical leaves some things blurry and others all too clear.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PM[SHARE]Disagreeing on classic musicals, agreeing on "The Band's Visit," and worried about a season when revivals outshone new plays.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:18AM[SHARE]Caryl Churchill's play about a moment of hope after the English Civil War gets a very dark revival at New York Theater Workshop.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Ain Gordon's new play tells a powerful story of gay life in America from the unusual point of view of a psychiatrist most famous for wearing a mask.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PM[SHARE]Even a riveting central performance isn't enough to release the potential of Tennessee Williams's follow-up to "A Streetcar Named Desire."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PM[SHARE]Condola Rashad stars in a thoughtful if mostly becalmed Manhattan Theater Club revival of the 1923 play on Broadway.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]Lauren Ambrose stars as a newly empowered flower girl in a gorgeous revival that transforms the classic musical into an ur-text for our #MeToo moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]The first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff's 1980 play shows that it was ahead of its time about deafness, but not about gender.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]A new musical at the Public Theater reinvents the family road trip narrative as a mother-daughter tale of immigration policy gone astray.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Years after committing a senseless murder, a young man returns to his Nebraska hometown. That's when the real trial begins.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]A new electro-folk singspiel by the authors of "100 Days" finds horror under the skin of a seemingly idyllic childhood.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]After 23 years in politics, the English star of "Elizabeth R" returns to the American stage in a torrential revival of Edward Albee's play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Beyond the blockbuster musicals (and Harry Potter) this month, there are a handful of potential gems like "Saint Joan," "Miss You Like Hell" and "Iceman Cometh."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:08PM[SHARE]Arin Arbus's new production at Theater for a New Audience makes a powerful case for one of Shakespeare's strangest works.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]The neurotic stage musical adaptation of the animated blockbuster raises questions about how Disney transforms its biggest hits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]The Parrotheads were after me. Parrotheads are fans of the singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and I am the co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. Normally our flight paths would not…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:32PM[SHARE]The Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical is so laid back it collapses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]In Joshua Harmon's new comedy, all it takes to turn a liberal into a martyr is a deferment from Yale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]David Rabe's dramedy is set in the emotional war zone of a mental health center, where the patients are colorful and the therapists are troubled.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]The characters in Martyna Majok's new play come from Poland, Afghanistan, Honduras and elsewhere. Illegal or not, they're New Yorkers now.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]As Taylor Trensch takes over the title role in the Tony-winning musical, the show's meaning and impact change too.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]In Jordan Harrison's wily comedy, a medieval theater troupe tries to outrun the Black Death " and the critics.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PM[SHARE]Hammaad Chaudry's first play is an ambitious look at the traumas of dislocation among the assimilated children of Pakistani immigrants in London.
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