A Kiss, a Sigh ... and a Postage Stamp

By ALEXIS SOLOSKI

Dominic Bugatto

The playwright and director and some of the actors in the coming revival of “Love Letters” answer questions about the lost art of the title.

Theater Review | 'Bootycandy'

This Love Dares to Speak Its Name, Explicitly

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

“Bootycandy,” Robert O’Hara’s searing and sensationally funny comedy, looks at attitudes toward gays in black culture.

ArtsBeat

‘Heidi Chronicles’ to Return to Broadway in February With Elisabeth Moss

By PATRICK HEALY

The revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play will star Ms. Moss, Jason Biggs and Bryce Pinkham.

The actor-playwright Craig Grant, known as muMs (with the D.J. Rich Medina in background), incorporates poetry into his one-man show “A Sucker Emcee,” which is coming to the Labyrinth Theater Company.

Versifying Above the Footlights

By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES

Poetry plays a big part in the one-man show “A Sucker Emcee,” “Ndebele Funeral” and the Irish play “Boys and Girls.”

Snapshot | Justin Elizabeth Sayre

Hitting Hollywood With Wit and Hankie

By BROOKS BARNES

Justin Elizabeth Sayre is busy, as a writer of “2 Broke Girls” and host of the monthly variety stage show, “The Meeting*.”

On the Runway Blog

Ryan Raftery, the performer, on stage dressed in drag as Anna Wintour.

Anna Wintour’s Celebrity Extends to Theater

By JOHN KOBLIN

On Friday night, at Joe’s Pub, a sold-out crowd took in a one-man show about Ms. Wintour called “Ryan Raftery is the Most Powerful Woman in Fashion.”

Theater Review

Barry McCarthy, left, Rufus Wright and Alecky Blythe in a scene from Ms. Blythe’s ‘‘Little Revolution,’’ at the Almeida.

Bumpy Starts to London’s Fall Theater Season

By MATT WOLF

The play “Little Revolution,” about the 2011 London riots, falters, while two other plays, “Breeders” and “The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd,” underwhelm.

Theater Review | 'Juárez: A Documentary Mythology'

Weaving Their Tapestry of Murder and Mayhem

By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES

In “Juárez: A Documentary Mythology,” at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater, actors recite the accounts of residents who have witnessed that border’s town’s cycle of violence.

Critic’s Notebook

A scene from New Paradise Laboratories’ “The Adults,” about three couples at a lakeside cabin, at the FringeArts festival in Philadelphia.

Facing Up to Threats of Nature

By BEN BRANTLEY

Works at the FringeArts festival in Philadelphia deal with the many ways both nature and human relationships can go wrong.

Theater Listings for Sept. 12-18

By THE NEW YORK TIMES

A critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.

Show Reviews

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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The Week Ahead

Anthony Wayne as Sylvester, center, with Anastacia McCleskey, left, and Jacqueline B. Arnold.

Theater

Diva to Die for Shakes It Anew

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

Sylvester, the flamboyant androgyne and disco diva, has now become fodder for the latest jukebox musical.

Tantalizingly Close to Art World Fame, Then Plunging Into Obscurity

By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES

Lauren Gunderson’s play “Bauer” follows the trajectory of Rudolf Bauer, a 20th-century painter who came close to stardom until his patron died.

Theater Review | '3 Christs'

Most People Think They’re Special, but These Think They’re Divine

By ALEXIS SOLOSKI

Milton Rokeach’s psychological study with three paranoid schizophrenics is the basis of the play “3 Christs.”

Theater Review | 'Boys and Girls'

Night of Free-Flowing Verse, Booze and Elusive Connections on Dublin Bar Stools

By ANDY WEBSTER

“Boys and Girls,” Dylan Coburn Gray’s play at 59E59, follows four young hot-blooded people through a boozy night in Dublin.

Music Review

Big Noise From Winnetka Christine Ebersole brings a little Broadway, a little rock and even a touch of hip-hop to her cabaret show at 54 Below.

A Star From Winnetka Blows Into Town

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

Christine Ebersole brings both her inner hippie and the operetta starlet to her new show, “Big Noise From Winnetka,” at 54 Below.

Theater Review | 'Smoke'

Pair of Partygoers Turn Up the Heat in the Kitchen

By ANITA GATES

In Kim Davies’s “Smoke,” two strangers engage in erotic power games in a kitchen at an uptown sex party.

Movie Review | 'My Old Lady'

Kevin Kline as an American in Paris, and Maggie Smith as his tenant for life, in “My Old Lady.”

An Apartment in the Marais, With Complications and Family Secrets

By STEPHEN HOLDEN

In “My Old Lady,” a failed American playwright inherits a splendid Paris apartment, but French law gives his tenant the upper hand.

Theater Review | 'The Winter's Tale'

With Fur and Song, Transforming the Tragic

By CHARLES ISHERWOOD

A musical twist of Shakespeare’s “The Winter’s Tale,” presented in Central Park by the Public Theater, spritzes the post-summer air with an invigorating sense of excitement and discovery.

Opera Review

Wingless, but They’ve Found Their Soul Mates

By ANTHONY TOMMASINI

“Here Be Sirens,” by Kate Soper, is a hybrid of opera, play and musical theater that presents these creatures as avian-humanoid femme fatales.

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Vanessa Hudgens to Star in ‘Gigi’ at the Kennedy Center

By ALLAN KOZINN

The Lerner and Loewe musical is aiming to end up on Broadway.

ArtsBeat

‘Wolf Hall’ and Its Sequel Aiming for Broadway After London Success

By PATRICK HEALY

Producers are in talks about a New York run of the hit British plays “Wolf Hall” and its sequel “Bring Up the Bodies,” based on the historical novels by Hilary Mantel.