Fun is the main point of Carl Cofield’s stylish outdoor staging of Shakespeare’s comic fantasy for the Classical Theater of Harlem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMMarin Ireland’s play opens with Tatiana Maslany in a rotating cast of stars, and “What Became of Us” continues its own experiment with changing casts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:02PMIn the Tony-nominated “Mother Play,” the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to understand — and to forgive.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:36AMShayan Lotfi’s topical play about a family building a new life in a new country leaves the details vague, deliberately.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMMadison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute “All of Me” — proof that depictions of disability onstage don’t have to be “a buzz kill,” as Ferris puts it.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AMIn “The Playbook,” James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18AMLauren Patten and Taylor Iman Jones star in an achingly romantic, softly sexy new musical by Rachel Bonds and Zoe Sarnak.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24AMMaia Novi stars in her play about a Hollywood-struck actress from Argentina who stops at Yale’s drama school and an inpatient psych ward on her way.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:36PMThe actress is back in concert mode at 76, and doing new material. She’s also looking forward to a bold new take on “Sunset Boulevard.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMAbigail and Shaun Bengson muse on death in their latest work, but its looseness makes it hard to get a handle on.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMThis musical adaptation, now on Broadway, is a lot of Jazz Age fun. But it forgot that Fitzgerald’s 1925 novel endures because it is a tragedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:32PMAt St. Ann’s Warehouse, this documentary play about a London fire is blood-boiling and aggrieved.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:36AM“Agreement,” at Irish Arts Center, and “Philadelphia, Here I Come!,” at Irish Repertory Theater, have a timeless feel, rooted in their eras and resonant in ours.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54AMA new play by J.T. Rogers goes behind the scenes of the shady “news-gathering” that rocked Rupert Murdoch’s British media empire over a decade ago.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMThe creators of “The Band’s Visit” return with this mischievous ghost story of a musical based on an odd slice of Old West history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:02PMJohn Patrick Shanley’s new play, starring Cecily Strong and David Zayas, is a romantic comedy with a penchant for the resolutely dismal.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:24PMDael Orlandersmith’s slender new solo play is a meditation on living that seems also like a curveball response to loss.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:12AMIf Taylor Mac and Matt Ray’s four-hour rock opera were aiming to succeed on aural gorgeousness and visual spectacle alone, there would be no cause to quibble.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:18PMGabby Beans shines as a time-hopping protagonist tracing her trauma in Rachel Bonds’s slip-slidey new Off Broadway play.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:42PMA meditation on mortality and renewal, “The Following Evening” presents mirror images of two married pairs of theater makers.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMKelli O’Hara and Brian d’Arcy James are superb as a midcentury-modern couple free-falling into addiction in Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel’s musical.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:06PMA once-powerful clan gathers for a family wedding and muddles through the facts and fiction of their past and present.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PM“Queens of Sheba” and “Volcano” at Under the Radar, and “Bacon,” at International Fringe Encore Series, expound on identity, captivity and violence.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMAfter years of fighting to win parity and recognition for women in theater, Julia Jordan said: “Everybody gets produced now. There’s much more competition. In a good way.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:12PMMelanie La Barrie, who brought the role of Angélique from the West End to Broadway, flew back on New Year’s Eve with “Hadestown” on the horizon.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMA musical adaptation of “Curves” and a play about two Asian women becoming friends both look at immigrants’ experiences, with mixed results.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:42PMIn Sandra Tsing Loh’s zany play, the stage is star-studded but familiarity alone can’t sustain this story about a group of old college friends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMHarrison David Rivers’s new drama, featuring a strong cast, is having its world premiere at Yale Repertory Theater.
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