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Caryl Churchill's play about a moment of hope after the English Civil War gets a very dark revival at New York Theater Workshop.
Ain Gordon's new play tells a powerful story of gay life in America from the unusual point of view of a psychiatrist most famous for wearing a mask.
Even a riveting central performance isn't enough to release the potential of Tennessee Williams's follow-up to "A Streetcar Named Desire."
Condola Rashad stars in a thoughtful if mostly becalmed Manhattan Theater Club revival of the 1923 play on Broadway.
The late Queen of Disco and pioneer of electronic dance music gets the Broadway jukebox treatment.
A French verse craze inspired a 1738 farce and now a comedy in couplets by David Ives.
Lauren Ambrose stars as a newly empowered flower girl in a gorgeous revival that transforms the classic musical into an ur-text for our #MeToo moment.
The first Broadway revival of Mark Medoff's 1980 play shows that it was ahead of its time about deafness, but not about gender.
A new musical at the Public Theater reinvents the family road trip narrative as a mother-daughter tale of immigration policy gone astray.
Years after committing a senseless murder, a young man returns to his Nebraska hometown. That's when the real trial begins.
A new electro-folk singspiel by the authors of "100 Days" finds horror under the skin of a seemingly idyllic childhood.
After 23 years in politics, the English star of "Elizabeth R" returns to the American stage in a torrential revival of Edward Albee's play.
Beyond the blockbuster musicals (and Harry Potter) this month, there are a handful of potential gems like "Saint Joan," "Miss You Like Hell" and "Iceman Cometh."
Arin Arbus's new production at Theater for a New Audience makes a powerful case for one of Shakespeare's strangest works.
The neurotic stage musical adaptation of the animated blockbuster raises questions about how Disney transforms its biggest hits.
The Parrotheads were after me.
Parrotheads are fans of the singer-songwriter Jimmy Buffett and I am the co-chief theater critic for The New York Times. Normally our flight paths would not…
The Jimmy Buffett jukebox musical is so laid back it collapses.
In Joshua Harmon's new comedy, all it takes to turn a liberal into a martyr is a deferment from Yale.
David Rabe's dramedy is set in the emotional war zone of a mental health center, where the patients are colorful and the therapists are troubled.
The characters in Martyna Majok's new play come from Poland, Afghanistan, Honduras and elsewhere. Illegal or not, they're New Yorkers now.
As Taylor Trensch takes over the title role in the Tony-winning musical, the show's meaning and impact change too.
In Jordan Harrison's wily comedy, a medieval theater troupe tries to outrun the Black Death " and the critics.
Hammaad Chaudry's first play is an ambitious look at the traumas of dislocation among the assimilated children of Pakistani immigrants in London.
Playwrights this season are focused on many kinds of unsentimental education.
Bernadette Peters, sadder but wiser, makes a very different Mrs. Levi from her predecessors in the hit revival.
