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In this stark, eloquent new play, three women reflect on what remains in the aftermath of an American civil war.
In Martin Crimp's time-bending version of the Rostand "Cyrano de Bergerac," directed by Jamie Lloyd, people make love and war through glorious language.
New takes on beloved works by Elena Ferrante, Anton Chekhov and Neil Gaiman testify to the pleasures and perils of adaptation.
An electrifying revival, starring a heartbreaking Wendell Pierce, reimagines Willy Loman as a black man in a white man's world.
A brassy celebration of optimism and urbanity, "Put on Your Sunday Clothes" from "Hello, Dolly!" can still stir the emotions.
This tuneful adaptation of John Carney's movie, about the saving grace of pop music in 1980s Dublin, hasn't quite found its ideal voice.
Stephen Adly Guirgis's bumpy, vibrant and expansive comic drama about a women's homeless shelter features a cast of 18 (or 19, counting the goat).
Inua Ellams's energizing, globe-traveling play considers the barber's chair as the black man's confessional.
Shows that defied categorization offered a stark choice: Escape an angry world, or face up to its travails. Beyond Broadway, writers explored race, inequality and addiction.
In retooling his first produced work, Tony Kushner himself appears as a character in this lumbering portrait of endangered artists in Nazi Berlin.
The Signature Theater's compassionate revival of Horton Foote's 1995 Pulitzer Prize-winning play takes a slow route to devastation.
This lively reimagining of Dickens's yuletide perennial, written by Jack Thorne, returns the story's social conscience to center stage.
Breadth doesn't always equal depth in Matthew Lopez's supersize, vividly painted portrait of gay life in the 21st century, featuring E.M. Forster as a spirit guide.
The Signature Theater revival of Anna Deavere Smith's drama about the Crown Heights race riots confirms this play's status as an enduring work of art.
Garry Hynes's visually hypnotic interpretation of the tale of the crookback who would be king sees medieval England as a cold slaughterhouse.
Kristin Chenoweth and Ian McKellen demonstrate the increasingly popular art of turning theater palaces into cozy parlors for confabs with fans.
The Emmy-winning "Game of Thrones" star shows off his abundant charisma in a lachrymose musical adaptation of Rostand's classic.
In this delicately wrought portrait of a dying choreographer and her family, Richard Nelson's play considers the redemptive powers of art in fractious times.
This convoluted play chronicles the breakdown of a conflicted, displaced East African woman in the cosmopolitan West.
Tina Satter's remarkable docudrama recreates the bizarrely banal interrogation that led to the arrest of the intelligence contractor Reality Winner.
The director Leah C. Gardiner delivers a warm and inspiriting revival of the landmark poetic drama, with a gloriously interdependent cast.
Gerard Alessandrini's franchise was looking as long in the tooth as the shows it aimed to skewer. A new edition brings it back to hilarious life.
This jubilant production, choreographed by Annie-B Parson, transforms an icon of alienation into a cosmically cozy senior statesman.
Michael Mayer's revitalizing revival of this genially gruesome classic becomes a sly morality tale for the age of universal celebrity.
Trip Cullman's unmoored production of this atypical comedy from Tennessee Williams presents sexual attraction as a raging force of nature.
