Amy Herzog’s heartbreaker arrives on Broadway with Rachel McAdams as the alarmingly upbeat mother of a fearfully sick child.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PMMichael Stuhlbarg and Will Keen shine as a kingmaker and his creature. But in Peter Morgan’s cheesy-fun play, it’s not always clear which is which.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:02PMEddie Redmayne and Gayle Rankin star in a buzzy Broadway revival that rips the skin off the 1966 musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMShaina Taub’s new Broadway musical about Alice Paul and the fight for women’s suffrage is smart and noble and a bit like a rally.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PMThe 30-year relationship between Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson is the basis for Suzan-Lori Parks’s hilarious and harrowing nesting doll of a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMA musical about the groundbreaking Art Deco painter is vocally thrilling but historically a blur.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:32PMThe classic coming-of-age novel has become a compelling, if imperfect, musical about have-not teenagers in a have-it-all world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32PMIn works like “Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike,” the playwright would force you to laugh, not to dull the pain but to hone it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48AMWill the Who’s rock opera about a traumatized boy hit the jackpot again?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:00PMThe circus-themed love story, already a novel and a movie, becomes a gorgeously imaginative Broadway musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36PMA cult horror film about a teenage girl with a surprise set of chompers gets another surprise: the song-and-dance treatment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMThe “Succession” star headlines a Broadway revival of Ibsen’s play about a lifesaving doctor and the town that hates him.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:02PMThe 2004 weepie comes to Broadway with songs by Ingrid Michaelson and a $5 box of tissues.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMLiev Schreiber and Amy Ryan star in a revival of John Patrick Shanley’s moral head spinner about pride, the priesthood and presumptions of pedophilia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PMSufjan Stevens’s 2005 concept album has become an unlikely and unforgettable dance-musical hybrid, directed and choreographed by Justin Peck.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:02PMRecordings of Broadway musicals are often better than the shows they preserve. Here’s a ranking of last year’s crop, with samples and bonus tracks.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMItamar Moses’s play offers eloquent arguments on all sides of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. But it doesn’t offer much drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMDid Jelly Roll Morton “invent” jazz, as he claimed? A sensational Encores! revival offers a postmortem prosecution of one of the form’s founding fathers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMEighteen openings in two months will drive everyone crazy. But maybe there should be even more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMWorldwide colony collapse is the subject of a bright, strange, upbeat thought experiment about insect hives, and our own.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMAn unlikely dark comedy imagines the people pushing #PizzaGate, Donald Trump and who knows what next.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMAn Off Broadway musical about the sins of journalistic fabrication might benefit from more make-believe.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:32PMHow watching gay coming-of-age stories has helped repair a heart still stuck in the past — and still scarred by a less welcoming world.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMHer dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMHer dancing sometimes overshadowed her thrillingly dramatic way with a song: husky yet clarion, unaffected but full of comment and character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:18PMLess than 30 years after her death, fictional reincarnations of Diana are everywhere. But even icons deserve more time to rest in peace.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMHeather Christian’s latest exploration of the religious sublime is a musical spectacle about the often overlooked “caregivers and makers.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMIn Joshua Harmon’s play about the legacies of antisemitism, a Parisian family must decide when it’s time to get out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PM“Mad Max” gets a prequel, “The Wiz” returns to Broadway and Larry David gets another crack at a series finale.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMStories evolve. But a recent review proved to a theater critic that people can change even more.
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