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In Lucy Kirkwood's chilling play, the meltdown of a nuclear power plant is not just an environmental crisis, but an existential one.
The nonprofit theater in TriBeCa will offer three world premieres in its coming season, starting with a new play by Steph Del Rosso on Jan. 22.
The revival, directed by Julie Taymor and starring Clive Owen, failed to draw an audience and will end its run even earlier than expected.
The musical, which marries a 16th-century romance with the songs of the Go-Go's, had its first production in 2015.
Jimmy Fowlie's one-man show satirizes the struggling, self-involved actress played by Emma Stone in the movie.
The choice lines and the soundtrack hits are there in this enjoyable adaptation of the movie. Now it's time to make a full-fledged show out of a quasi concert.
"A Tribute to Barbara Cook" will honor her life and work with a night of songs, stories and speeches on Dec. 18. Ms. Cook died this year at age 89.
The British panto tradition finds a welcoming home on the Lower East Side.
The venerable experimental troupe Mabou Mines incorporates "Frankenstein," fetishwear and puppetry in excavating the playwright's obsessions.
New shows in New York include "Iphigenia 2.0" and "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Smaller and out-of-the-way theaters are increasingly presenting musicals angling for the big time. For the creators of "Hadestown," the path veered way north.
Susan Soon He Stanton's new play uses only audio interactions, from voice mail to intercom, to tell a story about the breakdown of intimacy.
Also the week of Dec. 10: Nicholas Nixon's "Brown Sisters" portraits in Boston; Merce Cunningham alumni in Brooklyn.
Geoff Sobelle's hallucinatory performance piece at the Brooklyn Academy of Music is set in a house that comes to life before your eyes.
Theatergoers were excited for the musical's West End preview. Though many were hazy on the details of the founding father it's named after.
Théâtre du Soleil brings a huge, dizzy epic of all the world's ills (and theatrical styles) to the Park Avenue Armory.
A new play at the Young Vic portrays life in a bleak migrant camp and how theater and music united some members of that homeless, fractured community.
Christmas stalwarts like the Rockettes' Radio City show, participatory events including a festive caroling walk, and even a dose of Taylor Mac's wild cabaret.
This 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.
Rajiv Joseph's new play jams 90 years of lies, fantasies, propaganda and conspiracy into just under three hours. Also: the worst soup ever.
Our chief theater critics on their favorites this year, from "Bruce Springsteen on Broadway" to a host of playwrights tackling life's chaos.
The celebrated playwright spent the last months of his life working tirelessly on a final book, an intimate and philosophical look at his protagonist's " and his own " health struggles.
A lawsuit by the Broadway League alleges that casting offices have violated antitrust laws in an attempt to unionize. The directors have said they want health care and pension benefits.
A revised version of a musical memoir from the Bengsons affectingly reimagines commitment-phobia in existential terms.
This ginormous adaptation of the beloved Nickelodeon television series perfectly captures the innocently idiotic spirit of its prototype
