Clare Barron
The playwright Clare Barron, whose “You Got Older” is about to start performances at Here, leans on her own experiences and fantasies to ponder fate, faith and family.
A new Rockettes show, “New York Spring Spectacular,” is the latest attempt to create an annual springtime attraction with the drawing power of the “Radio City Christmas Spectacular.”
Maggie Gyllenhaal and Ewan McGregor are both making Broadway debuts in the revival of Tom Stoppard’s “The Real Thing.”
Kimber Lee’s “Brownsville song (b-side for tray),” at the Claire Tow Theater, explores a teenager’s death.
A Polish reinvention of Sarah Kane’s play “4:48 Psychosis,” by the TR Warszawa company, is at St. Ann’s Warehouse.
“Hand to God,” a dark comedy about a demonic sock puppet that wreaks havoc on relationships and faith in a small Texas town, is an unusual entry in the Broadway season.
Ms. Maslany, the star of “Orphan Black,” will make her New York stage debut opposite Thomas Sadoski in the world premiere of Neil LaBute’s play “The Way We Get By.”
There were fewer chanteuses onstage at this year’s New York Cabaret Convention than in the past, and a lot more male performers.
“Billy & Ray,” a play written by Mike Bencivenga and directed by Garry Marshall, looks at the film “Double Indemnity” and its writers, Billy Wilder and Raymond Chandler.
“Inner Voices” consists of two solo musicals: one about an artist whose friend is dying of AIDS in the next room, and the other about a famous writer in the process of going blind.
Recommended shows from Ben Brantley, Charles Isherwood and other theater critics for The New York Times.
Recent show reviews from Ben Brantley, Charles Isherwood and other theater critics for The New York Times.
Brad Zimmerman traded his restaurant misery for “My Son the Waiter, a Jewish Tragedy,” writing about the frustrations and absurdities of dealing with diners in New York City.
Top-grossing Broadway shows for the week ending Oct. 19.
A critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.
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“Lippy,” from the Dublin-based Dead Centre company, explores an apparent suicide pact among four women.
Joely Richardson plays Emily Dickinson in a new production of “The Belle of Amherst,” directed by Steve Cosson at the Westside Theater.
“Lennon: Through a Glass Onion” at the Union Square Theater looks at the life of the former Beatle.
“The God Game,” produced by Hudson Stage, considers whether answering a call to higher public office means betraying private beliefs.
Tom Stoppard’s masterpiece offers piquant ruminations on love, time and mathematics.
In “Outside Mullingar,” by John Patrick Shanley, two unmarried Irish neighbors, one quirky and one stubborn, deal with lost youth and thinning chances.
In the ebullient Broadway revival of “On the Town,” New York is a bustling, jostling cartoon that also floats like a swan.
Mark Dendy, a Broadway choreographer, structures his autobiographical piece “Labryinth” around the myth of Theseus, combining confession with dance, video and songs.
Jimmy Nail, who stars in “The Last Ship,” and Sting, who wrote its songs and conceived the show, draw from their hometown, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, for inspiration.
The new play “Billy & Ray” is the latest stage work to focus on filmmaking.
A tradition of honoring the death of a Broadway figure by dimming the lights in all the theaters first began in the 1950s.
Puppetworks theater in Brooklyn was founded in 1991 by Nicolas Coppola, a lifelong puppeteer. It has been a neighborhood institution ever since.
Many of these shows are currently in previews.
How to wade through the crush of culture coming your way this season? Here’s a guide to 100 events that have us especially excited, in order of appearance.
