David Greenspan gives a wild ride of a performance in “On Set With Theda Bara,” and marionettes star in Vaclav Havel’s play “Audience.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:18PMThere’s plenty of pleasure to be found at the end of the world in the Irish Repertory Theater production of Samuel Beckett’s play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PMPing Chong discussed his more than 50-year career as a multidisciplinary artist who has found inspiration in the surreal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMAfter its original New York outing in 2019, the trippy musical returns in the post-Roe era with an updated script and sharpened fangs.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:24AMThe 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 02:32PM“Frankenstein’s Monster Is Drunk and the Sheep Have All Jumped the Fences” and “Heaven,” two plays in Origin’s 1st Irish Festival, offer two very different views of marriage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:06PMThe Public Theater’s experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:06PM“Theater traffics in unconscious symbolism.” Set designers, lighting designers and a sound designer talk about skin tones, aesthetics and more.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMAnthony McCarten’s biodrama about the artists’ work together lifts the curtain on their friendship, or at least it thinks it does.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMThe British comedian and actor is now performing her solo take on Dickens’s coming-of-age drama Off Broadway. It’s “pure storytelling,” she said.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMBailey Williams’s comedy is a sharp-toothed, sometimes bewildering satire of all-consuming workplace culture.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:32PMAn addiction and recovery tale wrapped in a romantic comedy, Leah Nanako Winkler’s play insists on acknowledging the messy coexistence of joy and pain.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:36PMWill Swenson, the star of “A Beautiful Noise,” has come a long way from his days as an eighth grader wooing girls with his Diamond repertoire.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:32AMThe ancient and contemporary swirl together in Liba Vaynberg’s ambitious, off-kilter play about life after a divorce.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:36PMThe deep, dark tragicomedy by Bruce Norris is set in a group home for sex offenders.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:48PMYilong Liu’s new play toggles between China in 1984 and the United States in 2021.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:24PMIn a probing new play from the Civilians, based on the book “Caught in the Pulpit: Leaving Belief Behind,” current and former members of the clergy grapple with the reality of losing the…
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:18PMAt Irish Arts Center, a wry, experimental iteration doesn’t do much to untangle the playwright’s unwieldy early work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:37PMBest known for her 1995 hit song “I Kissed a Girl,” the enchanting singer-songwriter Jill Sobule is the star of a winsome and defiant autobiographical musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMThe playwright, whose Pulitzer-winning “Cost of Living” is now on Broadway, talks about “the precarity of life” and our inherent need to be taken care of.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:19PMEmma Rice’s glorious stage adaptation of Emily Brontë’s novel is a feat of storytelling, with a singing and dancing chorus embodying the moors.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:33PMMelissa Etheridge’s limited run at New World Stages is a celebration of its smoky-voiced 61-year-old star, and contains some confessions, along with her hits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:37PMA husband and wife who may be the “astrological doubles” of Princess Diana and Dodi Fayed head toward a crisis in this new play by Kareem Fahmy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:19PMThe hottest celebrity in town right now is an enchanting 12-foot-tall Syrian refugee puppet. She’s drawing masses of admirers, but that’s not always a good thing.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:37PM“My Onliness” is voluptuous and frenetic, while “This and That” is a slip of a show. Both are pleasingly peculiar.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:37PMThe actor David Greenspan is a tour-de-force, taking on all the roles of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson’s large-cast opera from 1934, sans music.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:49AMSteven Fechter’s “The Memory Exam” begins with a promising setup, our critic writes, while Grant MacDermott’s marriage story “Jasper” struggles for emotional resonance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:55PMIn the solo play “Remember This,” David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:43PMCameron Darwin Bossert’s smart new play fictionalizes a 1941 labor dispute to explore the tension between passions and paychecks.
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