
The impish provocateur makes his Broadway debut in a show that's less post-traumatic Trump therapy than self-aggrandizing autobiography.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:04PM[SHARE]An Encores! Off-Center production of this 1980 musical by Maurice Sendak and Carole King shows how far the story has strayed from the dour books it is based on.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PM[SHARE]If you knew what your life would hold, would you try to change it? And could you succeed? Bruce Norris's new play answers, "Maybe" and "Not much."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:48PM[SHARE]Don't look for politicians in the Public Theater's second Central Park production this season " or real tears. Be glad for the comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PM[SHARE]Kirsten Childs's 2000 musical about internalized racism gets a playful, poignant production at Encores! Off-Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:32PM[SHARE]In Mohammad Al Attar's new play, a 20-something Syrian is beaten nearly to death. Will his family and friends (and his country) ever recover?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PM[SHARE]In the Encores Off-Center revival of the 1991 Sondheim-Weidman musical, men and women who have shot American presidents get to sing. Will anyone listen?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PM[SHARE]All 13 of last season's new Broadway shows, plus two revivals, produced cast recordings. Here's our critic's take on what to play and what to skip.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PM[SHARE]Ins Choi's story of a Toronto store and the Korean immigrant family that runs it is at Pershing Square Signature Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PM[SHARE]Two outstanding performances in a "Children of a Lesser God" revival are a Berkshires highlight.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PM[SHARE]It's politics as unusual on stages across the city in July.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PM[SHARE]Scott McPherson's 1991 Off Broadway hit about duty to self and to others makes its Broadway debut in a very different world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]In Meghan Kennedy's kitchen-table drama at the Roundabout, an immigrant Italian family in 1960 seems ready to explode. Then it does.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]Thrilling argument and a strong American debut make a sometime-strange play soar despite some silliness at Theater for a New Audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]Horton Foote's 1954 drama of repression is given an affectionate if muddy revival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM[SHARE]At Arthur Ashe Stadium in Queens, a one-man show about the crusading liberal lawyer defies all of Mr. Spacey's efforts to bring it to engaging life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PM[SHARE]The assassination of a Trumplike figure in the Public Theater's production of "Julius Caesar" is already revving up outrage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PM[SHARE]What if Mark Twain's fictional slave Jim wasn't fictional? What if his descendants included a righteously angry Afro-Futurist artist?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PM[SHARE]John and Ani have disabilities. Jess and Eddie do not. But in Martyna Majok's gripping new play, all four are constrained by circumstances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24PM[SHARE]Mr. Perry has written "The End of Longing," in which he also stars, and he'll be there for you when the drinks start to pour.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PM[SHARE]The bohemians and aristocrats are gathered in the Sussex countryside in 1914. Guess who's crashing the party?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36PM[SHARE]A new musical explores the ancient (and continuing) Afghan practice of bacha bazi, the sale of boys to wealthy men.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PM[SHARE]Martial law, then impeachment. Robert Schenkkan's new future-history play is red meat for blue states.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12PM[SHARE]In Gina Gionfriddo's new play, a college graduate working off a catastrophic debt and a working-class single mother both aim to become upwardly mobile.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PM[SHARE]Two plays by Mfoniso Udofia, part of a cycle about the members of a Nigerian family, track their migration to the United States.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PM[SHARE]What makes the insight fresh in Edward Einhorn's play is the absurdist language (and Dada style) in which it's told.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:12PM[SHARE]Encores! makes a marvelous if last-ditch case for the cult musical based on "The Iliad" and "The Odyssey."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PM[SHARE]In numerous subplots set against a vicious civil war, MartÃn Zimmerman's play explores the contagion of culpability.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PM[SHARE]Our new co-chief theater critic, Jesse Green, offers his take on Ms. Wiest's work in this Beckett revival. Follow him on Twitter (@JesseKGreen) and Facebook (jesse.green.critic).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:24PM[SHARE]Our new co-chief theater critic, Jesse Green, makes his reviewing debut with this Sondheim musical. Follow him on Twitter (@JesseKGreen) and Facebook (jesse.green.critic).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:48PM[SHARE]Offerings include a revival of Suzan-Lori Parks's "Venus," at the Signature Theater, and Robert Schenkkan's "Building the Wall," at New World Stages.
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