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The maternal embrace of young men and their battles figures in two very different plays, one a solo work and the other a Brechtian riff starring Jessica Hecht.
With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play "The Swamp Dwellers," the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting out.
Mona Pirnot's comic ode to the downtown artist doubles as a meditation on the precariousness of playwriting as a creative life.
New short plays by Caryl Churchill, a comedy with one erstwhile Derry Girl and a musical starring Anika Noni Rose " here's what's on New York stages this month.
On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.
On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.
The protagonist of Chisa Hutchinson's new play is proud of his racial heritage, until he gets some unexpected test results.
Nia Akilah Robinson's new play, for Soho Rep, digs into an ugly historical practice.
Tim Curry and colleagues recall the musical's misadventure at the Belasco Theater in 1975.
Enda Walsh's formal experiment, at St. Ann's Warehouse, finds him in pared-back mode.
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson's "Girl From the North Country" and its passage through Broadway's pandemic shutdown.
Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman's 2023 ouster from OpenAI.
With their Tent Theater Company, Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes want to raise the profiles of older artists and keep them from being sidelined.
Also onstage in February: Calista Flockhart in a Sam Shepard revival, boldface names in Joy Behar's "My First Ex-Husband" and a marionette made of ice.
Three new plays onstage in Manhattan, "Kowalski," "Mrs. Loman" and "Nina," mine treasures of theater history.
Shakespeare's overstuffed late play gets an entertaining refresh Off Broadway, where Irish Rep is also offering a program of Samuel Beckett shorts.
In a new solo play about ordinary people under bombardment in Gaza, a woman rehearses how she would escape her building if Israeli forces were to strike.
Mischa Berlinski's shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge of playing Cleopatra.
Onstage, the flip-side of filial devotion has often been contempt. But a wave of forceful and multidimensional mothers suggests that may be changing.
Several festivals, including Under the Radar, are bringing a tantalizing breadth of new work to stages across New York.
Thornton Wilder's classic, starring Jim Parsons, wraps up, as does Leslye Headland's angsty family drama. Catch these and other plays while you can.
Pernicious patterns figure heavily in two thought-provoking plays on small Manhattan stages.
In a just sweet enough production with a strong cast, the "View" host delivers a performance that reaffirms her savvy as a comic actor.
Making his Broadway debut as the show's Emcee, the singer is reveling in what he calls "a thinking piece of musical theater."
Box-office sales, discount booths, same-day rush: Here's everything you need to know about nabbing seats to plays and musicals in Manhattan.
