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Here are some of the brilliant moments our writers can’t shake from this year’s batch of Tony-nominated productions.
Lea Michele, Adrien Brody and other boldface names were left out, while June Squibb, André De Shields and Layton Williams as an iceberg were among the surprises.
A new musical version of the 1980s tear-jerker comes to Broadway, but the production is too muddled to make an emotional impact.
Daphne Rubin-Vega stars as a laid-off office worker who spins into a murderous rage in this update of Elmer L. Rice's 1923 classic.
Alden Ehrenreich makes a show-stealing Broadway debut in Gina Gionfriddo's comedy about two old friends, one disastrous blind date and the dicey aftermath.
Two Shakespeare adaptations " Teatro La Plaza's uplifting remix and Red Bull Theater's gore fest " place very different values on human existence.
Two Shakespeare adaptations " Teatro La Plaza's uplifting remix and Red Bull Theater's gore fest " place very different values on human existence.
Jennifer Tilly and Daphne Rubin-Vega in "The Adding Machine," plus Jane Fonda in an eco-musical and Cecily Strong and Corey Stoll as a couple on their first date.
A new play at the Public Theater written by Michael J. Chepiga and the former ambassador Julissa Reynoso is a diplomatic memoir of sorts, and a meditation on loving one's country.
James Caverly and Andrew Morrill star as Deaf roommates in their new comedy at the Perelman Performing Arts Center.
The Lazours' intimate new musical about illness and mortality is also about finding solace in other people, and in art.
In Aya Ogawa's compassionate, sharply comical play, the pastel-pink public image of mommyhood doesn't stand a chance.
Lauren Yee's boisterous play "Mother Russia," about the origins of the contemporary oligarchy, has its roots in her San Francisco childhood.
Plays about addiction are filling Manhattan stages this month, depicting very different places on the recovery spectrum, from harrowing to serene.
Across the country, a flurry of theater productions, including "Black Swan" and "The Lunchbox," are mining the movies for material.
His New Federal Theater in New York provided a rare stage for Black playwrights and emerging actors, among them Denzel Washington, Phylicia Rashad and Chadwick Boseman.
Sean Hayes performs a new solo thriller, Alia Shawkat leads a play revival and Ethan Slater stars as Marcel Marceau in a world premiere.
Crowds are flocking to an annual festival for performances of "A Doll's House," a "Macbeth"-inspired witch tale and more featuring puppets big and small.
The curtain is about to come down on two jukebox musicals, a thriller by Tracy Letts, and other Broadway productions.
Catch Kristin Chenoweth basking in the excess, and Bill and Ted having a Beckettian adventure, before the curtain comes down on their productions and others.
The actress stars in Thomas Kail's luminous revival of Eugene O'Neill's play about a woman whose past threatens her future.
Lea Michele's star turn in "Chess." Kara Young as an 8-year-old. A 12-minute monologue delivered from a cloud. These are our favorite scenes from this year.
Popping up once a year, works like Dickens's holiday tale, "Amahl and the Night Visitors" and "It's a Wonderful Life" help us gauge where we are in our lives.
Enticements abound in New York City, including Jinkx Monsoon crooning, Dickens reciting Dickens and, for the whole family, the Big Apple Circus.
Michelle Williams leads an O'Neill drama, Matthew Broderick stars in Molière, and plenty of stages brim with non-holiday fare, Off Broadway and beyond.
