Mr. Sunshine is one of the rare Westerners to become a master of the centuries-old Japanese comic storytelling form.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 03:33PMA barbed comedy takes a grim turn when friends find themselves tested over how far they’ll go to defend their choices and protect their children.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 10:54PMChisa Hutchinson’s earnest morality play spends time with a Newark schoolboy and the brusque cafeteria worker he befriends.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 09:45PMIn this stage memoir, Chesney Show struggles to balance a powerful personal story with historical heft.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 02:24PMThis “Lysistrata” update at the Flea Theater is consistently lively, but its comic aims are scattershot.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:05PMThis retelling of the ancient Greek queen’s plight, set in the modern Midwest, is hilarious until it takes a grisly turn.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 01:26PMThe show features jazz, blues and country music from Allan Harris, who also plays the title character.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 05:18PMThe National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene show is at once a rapid-fire revue and a textbook chronology of Jewish history in New York.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 04:04PMA man who lost his family in a plane crash funnels his grief and despair into a quest for revenge.
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