A musical adaptation of the popular fantasy novel comes to Broadway and goes to Hades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMA complex look at democracy from an Asian perspective turns “The King and I” inside out.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54PMThis inaugural offering from the Coop squeezes whimsy, character comedy and ecological allegory into one crowded play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42PMAn astonishing new play by Will Arbery risks a rare stage subject: Christian conservatism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:12AMJeremy O. Harris’s Off Broadway hit about race and sex in America shakes things up on Broadway.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36AMGay dads and their “woke genius” daughter face the limitations of life in a patchy new play by Jeff Augustin.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMBrian Cox plays Lyndon B. Johnson at the height of his powers, when history decided to bring him down.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMBen Brantley and Jesse Green respond to readers curious about the Tony race, hungry for happy fare, and heading to London.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMA new work from one of the indisputably great directors is partly a tribute to theater and partly a warning about theatricality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMAs a work of high drama, Jesse Green writes, the Trump-Zelensky script lacks stagecraft and subtlety.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:48PMFlorian Zeller’s tiresome new play features Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins as a long-married couple, one of whom may be dead.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMIn ‘runboyrun’ and ‘In Old Age,’ the latest installments of Mfoniso Udofia’s nine-play cycle, America is no place to hide from the past.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMThe epicenter of New York’s AIDS epidemic, St. Vincent’s (1849-2010) is the subject of a memorial service that’s also a play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMA new play argues that no one knows more about Shakespeare’s great tragedy than a man “born black in America.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMSeven of this season’s Broadway and Off Broadway shows come from an eight-week theatrical powerhouse in Williamstown, Mass.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:54AMA new musical about a Filipino faith healer bringing “psychic surgery” to America expands the frontiers of the form.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33AMWith shrewd casting and amateur performers joining professionals onstage, a middling 1997 animated Disney musical becomes a pageant of civic engagement.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMBess Wohl’s daring, mysterious new play is a comedy of underparenting and a tragedy of selfishness. Or is it the other way around?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42PMA sumptuous Ibsen revival starring Uma Thurman and a knockout premiere by Adam Bock close the Williamstown season with a metaphysical “boo!”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18AMHow does who you are affect how you see this Pulitzer Prize-winning drama? Two critics finally have the talk.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMAs a lowly apprentice on a notorious flop, I got to see how the “Dark Prince” achieved his effects and cut his losses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:42PMBetter known for its classics, the Stratford Festival has long presented fine-tuned versions of Broadway musicals. This year: “Billy Elliot” and “Little Shop of Horrors.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMA follow-up to the startling and divisive “Nanette” is just as startling and probably just as divisive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12PMAn Encores! Off-Center revival reveals the tantalizing cleverness and intractable faults of the 1997 (and 1999, 2003, 2004 and 2008) musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMAnnie Golden stars in a musical B-movie pastiche that lands in the gap between tribute and spoof.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThis season’s wide-ranging offerings, including Shakespeare and “Little Shop of Horrors,” reveal the surprising root of our longest-lasting stories.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMHalley Feiffer’s “Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow Moscow” turns the master’s refined Russians into “Mean Girls.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:06PMHow did a lush throwback like “People Will Say We’re in Love” become the lean, sexy, countrified number being sung today? Follow along as we break it down.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMA new work — and revivals of a classic play and musical — are having a conversation about different kinds of incarceration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:36PMIn a memory play with songs, the monologuist David Cale recreates the chaos of his youth in a rough town and a violent home.
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