
Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMInua Ellams discusses his surprise hit play, which has its New York premiere at the Next Wave Festival this week.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMAlan Lightman’s novel loses its charm in Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum’s show, which lacks a sense of a sure artistic voice.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMA critic who once resisted the charms of this holiday clownfest found herself floating on happiness this time around.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48PMThis meandering jazz-infused drama, told across generations of a black family, strains to pull its focus from white women.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:48PMThe return of Tony Kushner’s “A Bright Room Called Day” prompted us to ask leading writers: How did it go for you? And what did you learn?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMThe Next Wave festival’s latest digital dive: A tale of grief staged in a Brooklyn cafe that the audience only pieces together by smartphone.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMAnthony Black’s play is about the life-sustaining power of creating art. But it never overcomes the dull short story from which it’s adapted.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMIn this Irish production, an 11-year-old actor plays the child who died too soon to get to know his immortal father.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMJazz unites two brothers, one accused of plotting terrorism, in Idris Goodwin’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMA bracingly lucid Corey Stoll embodies Shakespeare’s thane who, step by step, cedes his soul to his own darkest impulses.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33PMSylvia Khoury’s insidiously sharp new play arrives as the eight-year-old conflict is making fresh headlines in the United States.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:48PMIn Sean Daniels’s grim autobiographical comedy, a charming stage director tries, and tries again, to sober up.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMGeorge Bernard Shaw gets sensitively streamlined in a briskly entertaining production with winning performers at its center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMKate Hamill and Andrus Nichols made their names in a theater company specializing in scaled-down classics. Now they’re forming their own troupe.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:12PMAn easily legible production of the ancient Greek tragedy borrows from the tradition of Noh theater at the Park Avenue Armory.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMJohn Glover lifts Michael Tucker’s otherwise convoluted and crowded dramedy of baby boomers contemplating life on a commune.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PMBy definition, live theater vanishes in the moment; Ms. Corwin pushed to have shows videotaped and deposited in a library collection, which she ran for decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMA French stage adaptation of the John Cassavetes film misses the #MeToo moment.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMNtozake Shange’s play, with its unflinching depiction of black women’s experience, is coming back to the Public Theater more than 40 years after opening there.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:33AMThe Flea Theater has revived this brief play, in which a flat tire is the least of the problems you might encounter in Central Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMWas it a one-time telephone interruption, or was it written into the show? And why was it so crucial to find out?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:03PMA frenzy of strained joke-making and audience participation overwhelms a promising exploration of romance in the internet age.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMThe screen and stage star is making his Broadway debut as the bottled-up husband wearing a “mask of control” in Harold Pinter’s romantic triangle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:33AMIn a tender pair of monologues, Tom Sturridge and Jake Gyllenhaal portray young fathers shaken out of complacency.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:03PMWith plays and musicals folding left and right, Broadway stars impart wisdom they gained when it happened to them.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMIn Domenica Feraud’s potent drama, hard-driving parents don’t recognize the examples they set for a daughter with anorexia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMThis new “comedy musical” is lesser material than she deserves, but Ms. Rudner delivers an innocuously pleasant evening.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:54PMBereavement and self-destruction stalk the plays in Series A of this year’s Summer Shorts Festival in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24PMThe New York Music Festival production tells the story of the summer when Emmett Till was murdered.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PMIsaac Gomez’s one-woman play follows the trail violence in a city on the Mexican border.
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