This New York-based showcase offers the kind of experimental plays, like “Pillowtalk,” that thrive in more obscure performance spaces.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:26PMThe Mint Theater’s handsome, rough around the edges production makes a better case for this 1912 play as a curiosity than as a forgotten gem.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:39PMIn her new play “Sovereignty,” Mary Kathryn Nagle brings together her legal activism and her family history.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:13AMIn this gentle, humane show by Ping Chong + Company, young New Yorkers share their real-life victories and fears.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:34PMStark, intricate and often exciting, the two-character chamber opera finds a prisoner tormented by the insect in her cell.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:20PMThe dancer Robert Fairchild’s creature has a delicate, disarming beauty in Ensemble for the Romantic Century’s ambitious but awkward production.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12PMIf you missed the preholiday rush, fret not. There is still time for festive theater.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33AMIn acclaimed works like “The Children,” now on Broadway, the British writer argues for collective responsibility in the face of environmental and other challenges.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:18PMThree small, powerful pieces of political theater consider those wounded by racism and xenophobia.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:04PMThe sprawling life of a New York titan is given superficial treatment — and set to rock music — in this show.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMTwenty-five-year-old Londoner Jamael Westman has definitely come around, now that he’s starring in Lin-Manuel Miranda’s hip-hop smash.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33AMThis multimedia show, featuring the Lemon Bucket Orkestra and set during the Maidan revolution, doesn’t translate its protest anthems, which the audience is asked to join.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMCultural appropriation isn’t a worry for the director Ariane Mnouchkine, who, at 78, isn’t slowing down, but knows she won’t be here forever.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMBig Dance Theater’s animated investigation of Samuel Pepys reads like a refraction of our recent monster parade.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMTheresa Rebeck’s furious play looks at what happens when a young architect fights back against colleagues who don’t take her seriously.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:04PMThe Wales Millennium Center’s take on this dark, dreamy 1982 play, part of BAM’s Next Wave Festival, seems to prize atmospherics over narrative.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMMickey Rowe is thought to be the first openly autistic actor to play Christopher, a 15-year-old with autism, in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:54AMWilliam Nicholson’s biodrama, is directed by Christa Scott-Reed for the Fellowship for Performing Arts.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:07PMAs a Manhattan therapist, Alison Fraser may seem composed. But when she tells her story, Aaron Mark’s ghoulish monologue earns its title.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:48PMDavid Greenspan’s performance in the 6-hour melodrama is masterful in its clarity and endurance.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:04PMDavid Henry Hwang has reworked his gender-blurring, career-launching Tony-winning play to assure that it feels “resonant with the culture today.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:33PMDiana Oh’s rambunctious show is more a concert with storytelling than a play, but that doesn’t make it any less heartfelt, joyous or necessary
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:06PMAnnette O’Toole plays a mother whose daughter inexplicably falls for a boasting buffoon in this classic George Kelly comedy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMSeeing Sarah Ruhl’s “For Peter Pan” reminds a critic of her own father and why she turns to theater to “confront the hard stuff,” like grieving his death.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:42AMBringing together wrestlers, a food cart, a cellist and a bandstand, Pig Iron Theater Company takes on catastrophe in “A Period of Animate Existence.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:36PM“Macbeth Muet” is a frolic through tragedy with puppetry, while “Makbet” is a darkly gregarious production (shots included).
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:12AMThe National Black Theater production of Liza Jessie Peterson’s monologue explores the personal and societal costs of mass incarceration.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:42PMNoni Stapleton wrote and stars in a solo show about an Irishwoman unsettled by life on the farm.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:33PMA plantation-set adaptation of “The Cherry Orchard” and a scatological monologue are visceral reminders of theater’s power to unsettle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:54PMThomas Klingenstein’s new play about an unrequited interracial love is like watching a sepia-tinged tableau.
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