Thomas Klingenstein’s new play about an unrequited interracial love is like watching a sepia-tinged tableau.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMMedora, N.D., population 132 — except in summer when 100,000 tourists pour into town to see a musical celebration of Old West values.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:18PMThe playwright is preparing to return to the stage as an actor in “American Buffalo” at the Dorset Theater Festival.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:54PMSarah Ruhl’s play, which she wrote for her mother, is about five adult siblings confronting mortality.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:36AMA program of 10 short pieces, set in and around Flushing Meadows-Corona Park, touches on tennis, dragon boats and the 1939 World’s Fair.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:48PMAt the New York Musical Festival, a love story plays out in a divided Berlin, and women entangled in suburban soccer-mom life become the center of another drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:06PMJames Smith’s solo show, part of Soulpepper’s New York residency, examines his family’s history of disorders with a striking lack of bitterness.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMHoward Barker’s BBC teleplay is being professionally staged for the first time, thanks to Potomac Theater Project, which has regularly mounted his work.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:19PMLooking after her ailing husband, and the perils of climate change, are inspirations for her new play, “Singing Beach.”
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:06PMThis Wooster Group production, inspired by Tadeusz Kantor and his play “I Shall Never Return,” is an esoteric project that fails to connect with its audience.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMGender inequality remains a problem, but it’s heartening to see playwrights and performers argue for more opportunities.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 08:18AMActresses play the brother-rivals in a lampoon of “True West” that works better on the page than on the stage.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMMr. Norris’s play, which had its premiere in 2010, is just now arriving in New York with its jaundiced view of human relations.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:54PMMrs. Malaprop misspeaks outdoors when New York Classical Theater brings a lighthearted comedy of manners to Central Park.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:04PMFor Soulpepper Theater Company, putting on 30 productions at home won’t do this year. The Toronto troupe is also programming a New York theater center for July.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:42PMFor an adaptation of “The Bacchae,” the Stratford Festival hired Tonia Sina, who teaches a codified method of approaching onstage intimacy.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:06PMAfter a bracing revival of “The Glass Menagerie” this spring, and last year’s “Othello,” Mr. Gold takes on another Shakespeare drama.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:33PMOne actor and an illuminated toy theater bring ‘A Hunger Artist’ to bitterly comic life.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 07:18PMThe immersive new eco-play “(Not) Water” has been in the making since Hurricane Katrina.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18AMAn evocative production of Charles Mee’s play features disabled actors on a set that seems reassembled from the drawings of James Castle.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:24PMScott McPherson’s play, a deathbed comedy that premiered Off Broadway in 1991, is inextricable from his struggle with AIDS.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:36PMMr. Malloy’s “Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812” is up for 12 Tonys. His studio whiteboard suggests how that came to be.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:25PMAriel Stess’s cockeyed social-justice comedy opens Clubbed Thumb’s summer festival of new plays.
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SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:48PMMs. Majok, who grew up in working-class New Jersey, has fleshed out her short work “John, Who’s Here From Cambridge” into a larger piece.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 12:42PMHalf immersive spectacle, half cabaret, this satire is a provocative and unnerving exploration of American racism.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:36PMO’Neill’s Civil War-era Greek tragedy is infused with new relevance in a production directed by David Herskovits.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:18PMThe Public Theater’s Mobile Unit winds up its five-borough tour of Shakespeare’s comedy about mistaken identity.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 11:42AMBoris Akunin’s take on Shakespeare’s broody prince is full of intrigue, but it often feels like a “Hamlet” highlight reel.
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