High Camp and High Tragedy in Two Electrifying Off-Broadway Productions
Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel's stately "Translations."
Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel's stately "Translations."
The critic, professor, producer, and author was a pugilistic champion of the stage.
The writer David Ives and the director Joe Mantello continued without the late composer on an adaptation of two lacerating Luis Buñuel films.
The playwright behind "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" chose boho mermaid locks before opening on Broadway.
A new biography provides a glimpse into the life of the celebrated classicist.
Two new intergenerational sagas, by Nathan Alan Davis and Javier Antonio González, explore the American legacy.
In Jocelyn Bioh's new Broadway comedy, West African immigrants navigate a Harlem salon fraught with cultural dissonance.
"Someone's yelling 'Lauren Boebert' in a crowded theatre."
The duo behind "Beetlejuice" on Broadway began their latest show, "Gutenberg! The Musical!," as a goof.
Sophisticated comedic turns from Leslie Odom, Jr., and Kara Young guide Kenny Leon's Broadway revival of Ossie Davis's 1961 play.
Dmitry Krymov starts from scratch in New York.
Hilton Als reviews Michelle Buteau's "Full Heart, Tight Jeans": sentiment and a sense of community provide the framework for the comedian's new standup show.
Rebecca Gilman and Theresa Rebeck use plants as metaphors for human flourishing in their latest works.
Beyond the amber marble that sheathes PAC NYC are three maximally transformable theatre spaces and a Marcus Samuelsson restaurant.
With humor and pathos, the movie presents the stage as a haven to be protected.
The playwright's exquisite new comic drama, "Infinite Life," nails the absurdity of having a body.
What's happening in TV, art, theatre, music, movies, and more.
The new Broadway play, by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, imagines frequently irritable chats among the movie's three main actors, including Shaw's father, Robert Shaw.
Todd Haynes's "Superstar: The Karen Carpenter Story" exists in diametrical, generational opposition to Greta Gerwig's box-office-topping "Barbie."
The actor Robert Shaw used to bring his son Ian to the "Jaws" set. Now Ian's playing his dad in "The Shark Is Broken," his play about the mechanical predator.
A new venue with an archive, an exhibition space, and a theatre has opened up across from the Louis Armstrong House Museum, in Corona, Queens.
David Byrne's electro-pop Imelda Marcos is a series of hard, mirrored surfaces.
Helen Shaw reviews Robert Icke's adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler play, starring Juliet Stevenson as a doctor who is a target of anti-Semitism and language policing.
"Operation Mincemeat," "Guys and Dolls," and "The Motive and the Cue" gallop into the past.
It was a big night for the off-kilter appeal of "Kimberly Akimbo," the nonbinary winners Alex Newell and J. Harrison Ghee, and try-hard musical-theatre-kid energy.