The actor, who starred in the original Broadway run of ‘Rent,’ reflects on the show’s early days and dealing with the grief of his mother’s death.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:06PMThe film star embodies one of opera’s greatest divas in the solo show “Maria Callas: Letters & Memoirs,” coming to the Beacon Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18AMFeaturing a lobster telephone and a robot boy with batlike wings, this puppet romance set in a future post-ecological collapse succeeds on its own weird terms.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMEduardo Machado’s autofictional play follows the playwright’s alter ego as he navigates gay life in the 1980s and ’90s.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMThe Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a second selection of the works on display.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMTwo passengers share more than just an eerie commute aboard a train headed upstate.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:42PMThis wacky family show respects the codes of the British holiday tradition known as panto, which means playfully not holding anything back.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:32PMIn the new Broadway show, Will Swenson plays the superstar, who seems perpetually dissatisfied, as if on a quest — but for what?
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:54PMIn Jordan E. Cooper’s biting satire, Black Americans descended from slaves are offered one-way airfare to Africa.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:06PM“Underneath the Skin,” a theater piece by John Kelly, meditates on the life of Samuel Steward, who always lived boldly when others dared not.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:54PMNoël Coward’s bleak portrait of a collapsing marriage between two artists has its American premiere at New York City Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06AMIn the playwright David Cale’s thriller, a woman looking for a vanished friend discovers a new sense of self.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:12PMThe comedian once again proves his virtuosity as a narrator, weaving a new harrowing tale in his latest Broadway show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:18PM“I think that the legacy is more how we offer a model for future young companies,” Bogart said of the theater company she leads, which is ending its producing activities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMThe show’s creative team talks about revamping the immersive Off Broadway hit so that it moves “around the audience” at Circle in the Square Theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:32AMEnsemble Studio Theater’s 38th Marathon of One-Act Plays showcases what can be accomplished in short-form productions, and how, in some cases, they hem ideas in.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:07PMMelis Aker’s new play with music, presented by Ars Nova and PlayCo., follows a musical prodigy without drive or passion.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:07PMThe palace intrigue behind a mythic battle from 18th-century Japan is the subject of this bilingual play in Manhattan.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:07PMHe might be the greatest Shakespearean actor you’ve never heard of. At last, New Yorkers will get to see his no-holds-barred portrayal of Hamlet in Thomas Ostermeier’s production at BAM.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMIn Douglas McGrath’s one-man show, his account of an experience as a teenager unfurls with the can’t-look-away quality of a slow-motion crash.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:07PMAfter the twists and turns of a pop career, the British singer-songwriter adds a new string to her bow: musical composer.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:25AMThey both first made a splash in the ’90s. They’re now in New York to present new theatrical memoirs that mix storytelling and songs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:07PM“300 el x 50 el x 30 el,” the Belgian troupe FC Bergman’s ambitious theatrical installation, will open BAM’s Next Wave festival with an elaborate set that recreates a rural settlemen…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:13AMThis musical may lack the 1989 movie’s nihilism, but the gags still work and the songs are great — who are we to quibble?
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:34PMMichael John LaChiusa’s delicate new musical starts in Depression-era California and follows two people across six decades.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:19PMThe Cyndi Lauper and Harvey Fierstein musical, in which the drag queen Lola saves a provincial shoe factory, makes an Off Broadway return at the spacious Stage 42.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMAfter reporting on the Creede Repertory Theater last summer, our writer returned for her vacation and took stock as the company restarted indoor performances.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMIn her new autobiographical solo play, the actress Jade Anouka recounts the joys and fears of falling for a woman after her marriage to a man ends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:54PMThe splashy show, an example par excellence of what makes modern French musicals distinctive, begins a run at Lincoln Center.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMRobert Quillen Camp’s play, about an antiracist discussion group, starts out naturalistically, but then pivots, with bloody abandon, to the absurd.
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