This musical, at the Public Theater, looks at the younger inhabitants of the White House.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:25AMTwo women of opposing temperaments share a room in a retirement home, in David Lindsay-Abaire’s play, from the Manhattan Theater Club.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMThis solo performance piece by Pat Kinevane at the Irish Arts Center has a freshly risen corpse as its narrator, and she has a story to tell.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25PMThe Keen Company’s revival, a stage adaptation of Graham Greene’s frolicsome 1969 novel, is on Theater Row.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:37PMA critic’s journey into the politically charged world and productions of the Belarus Free Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PMThe show explores life in the White House for the likes of Amy Carter, Tricia and Julie Nixon, and Susan Ford.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:49PMMs. July, a self-conscious practitioner of self-consciousness, has an improbable gift for turning the initially irritating into the charming.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:09PMNina Arianda and Sam Rockwell tear up the scenery (and each other) in Daniel Aukin’s definitive revival of Sam Shepard’s drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:24AMStarring Julie Atlas Muz and Joey Arias, this spooky production blends surreal projections, hoisting harnesses and puppets to depict the 1915 founders of the Abrons Arts Center’s playhouse.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:39PMThis Harold Pinter revival is not an “Old Times” for purists, but it has its pleasures.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:07PMThis Atlantic Theater Company revival of Caryl Churchill’s play is set in the Victorian age (for its first act) and in 1979 (for its second).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22PMDiscussing Mr. Friel’s work, Ben Brantley reflects on the elusiveness of great art and the pain of the artist who creates it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:13PMBen Brantley and Anthony Tommasini weigh in on the debate set off by the Metropolitan Opera’s decision to forgo darkening makeup in its latest production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMElevator Repair Service takes on a script that appears to pose seemingly insurmountable difficulties for a stage director.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMHearing words in a new way is part of the experience of “Reread Another,” a 1921 avant-garde play by Gertrude Stein.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:27PMIvo van Hove’s doom-steeped production stars Juliette Binoche as the fatally rebellious daughter of the house of Oedipus.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:34PMTwo people who almost had an affair 20 years ago have another chance in Christopher Shinn’s “An Opening in Time” at Hartford Stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:22PMThis deadpan drama by the shock artist Thomas Bradshaw is more of a slice-of-life narrative than his previous ventures into new frontiers of outrage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:55PMA cast of five plays all the roles in Shakespeare’s uproarious comedy of romantic confusions.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMMegan McGinnis and Paul Alexander Nolan star in a musical about pen pals from Jean Webster’s 1912 novel best known as a 1955 movie with Leslie Caron and Fred Astaire.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:30AMA humorously made-over Greek chorus is one of the twists in Anne Washburn and Rachel Chavkin’s version of Euripides’ play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:50PMBen Brantley reviews “The Beaux’ Stratagem” at the National Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMPlaying Rosalind Franklin, a lone woman among male researchers in London, Ms. Kidman projects relentless determination.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:15PMBen Brantley on two versions of “The Oresteia,” part of the current fashion for Greek tragedy on London and New York Stages.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:57PMBen Brantley on two plays by Simon Stephens: “Song from Far Away” and “One Minute.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:10PMThis romantic love triangle, which played at the Abrons Arts Center, is now playing in Brooklyn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:26PMSo many plays and musicals are being revived so soon after their previous runs that it’s best to appreciate the opportunity rather than curse the production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:22AMBen Brantley reviews “The Heresy of Love” and “Jacqueline Wilson’s Hetty Feather.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:58PMA review of Imelda Staunton in "Gypsy."
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:19AMA review of Duncan Macmillan’s new play “People, Places and Things.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:03PMTimberlake Wertenbaker’s “Our Country’s Good” has been given a big, handsome and somewhat literal-minded revival at the National Theater.
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