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By ERIK PIEPENBURG
Four drag performers with Christmas-themed shows at the Laurie Beechman Theater chat about their love-hate relationship with the holidays.
With expert help, the cast and crew of the Broadway play “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time” have softened its sensory edges for an audience within the autism spectrum.
Taking over the role in “Cabaret” at Studio 54, Emma Stone portrays Sally as a desperately energetic flapper whose worst fear is not mattering.
Four drag performers with Christmas-themed shows at the Laurie Beechman Theater chat about their love-hate relationship with the holidays.
In “The Illusionists” at the Marriott Marquis Theater, seven magicians perform with the accompaniment of a band, laser beams, digital video screens and more.
A boy and his elderly cousin enact an annual holiday ritual in Truman Capote’s “A Christmas Memory,” adapted as a musical presented by the Irish Repertory Theater.
Illustrators and designers offer different takes on the antihero of “The SantaLand Diaries” for posters promoting regional stage productions.
After 46 years, Michael P. Price is stepping down as executive director of Goodspeed Musicals in Connecticut.
“Up and Away,” an immersive work inspired by Jules Verne’s “Around the World in 80 Days,” will open next fall, with previews in the spring.
Nneka Okafor, starring in Katori Hall’s “Our Lady of Kibeho,” talks about her star turn, religious experiences and Texas cuisine.
Liv Ullmann’s version of Strindberg’s “Miss Julie” features Jessica Chastain and Colin Farrell as class-bound lovers repelled and attracted by each other in a battle of the sexes.
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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.
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In the comedian Jeff Achtem’s “Swamp Juice,” a despicable man enjoys torturing snail, snake and bird puppets in the bayou.
“On a Stool at the End of the Bar,” by Robert Callely, follows a couple as they adjust to some surprising truths.
Annaleigh Ashford juggles a cabaret act at 54 Below with her Broadway role in “You Can’t Take It With You” and her TV role as Betty in “Masters of Sex.”
On the London stage, Jamie Lloyd’s production of “Assassins”; a revival of “Accolade”; and Mordaunt Shairp’s 1933 play “The Green Bay Tree.”
In “Rollo’s Wild Oat,” a 1920 comedy by Clare Beecher Kummer, a rich man buys his way into playing Hamlet on Broadway and then tries to win Ophelia.
“A Christmas Story: The Musical,” playing at the John W. Engeman Theater at Northport, is centered on a child’s concern that he won’t get the present he wants.
“The Fabulous Lipitones,” in New Brunswick, works just fine without much glitter or glamour — its greatest pleasures spring from the simplest of intentions.
Members of the Bedlam troupe play multiple roles in productions of “The Seagull” and “Sense and Sensibility.”
In Mat Smart’s “Naperville,” a son moves back home to help his mother deal with losing her sight, but she finds that even her coffee is different.
The producers of “Peter Pan Live!” aimed to update elements of the original musical that were insensitive to Native Americans.
“Every Brilliant Thing” arrives in New York with lots of good reviews and a high concept that sounds a bit mawkish.
A computer-generated Tinker Bell, moving sets and a contraption-heavy pirate ship are among the technical hurdles that face NBC in presenting a live “Peter Pan.”
This week’s video features Joy Behar, the comedian and former co-host of “The View” in a scene from her autobiographical show.
Joseph Silovsky’s “Send for the Million Men,” based on the 1927 execution of the anarchists Sacco and Vanzetti, stars his signature creation: a robot called Stanley.
Many of these shows are currently in previews.
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