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.
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.
“Bootycandy,” Robert O’Hara’s searing and sensationally funny comedy, looks at attitudes toward gays in black culture.
The revival of Wendy Wasserstein’s Pulitzer- and Tony-winning play will star Ms. Moss, Jason Biggs and Bryce Pinkham.
Poetry plays a big part in the one-man show “A Sucker Emcee,” “Ndebele Funeral” and the Irish play “Boys and Girls.”
Justin Elizabeth Sayre is busy, as a writer of “2 Broke Girls” and host of the monthly variety stage show, “The Meeting*.”
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.”
The play “Little Revolution,” about the 2011 London riots, falters, while two other plays, “Breeders” and “The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd,” underwhelm.
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.
Works at the FringeArts festival in Philadelphia deal with the many ways both nature and human relationships can go wrong.
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Recommended shows from Ben Brantley, Charles Isherwood and other theater critics for The New York Times.
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Sylvester, the flamboyant androgyne and disco diva, has now become fodder for the latest jukebox musical.
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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.
Lauren Gunderson’s play “Bauer” follows the trajectory of Rudolf Bauer, a 20th-century painter who came close to stardom until his patron died.
Milton Rokeach’s psychological study with three paranoid schizophrenics is the basis of the play “3 Christs.”
“Boys and Girls,” Dylan Coburn Gray’s play at 59E59, follows four young hot-blooded people through a boozy night in Dublin.
Christine Ebersole brings both her inner hippie and the operetta starlet to her new show, “Big Noise From Winnetka,” at 54 Below.
In Kim Davies’s “Smoke,” two strangers engage in erotic power games in a kitchen at an uptown sex party.
In “My Old Lady,” a failed American playwright inherits a splendid Paris apartment, but French law gives his tenant the upper hand.
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.
“Here Be Sirens,” by Kate Soper, is a hybrid of opera, play and musical theater that presents these creatures as avian-humanoid femme fatales.
The Lerner and Loewe musical is aiming to end up on Broadway.
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.
Six premieres by playwrights with ties to the Garden State are scheduled to be part of the state’s 2014-15 professional theater season.
Many of these shows are currently in previews.
Actors, composers and directors talk (briefly) about making their Broadway debuts.
“On the Town” marked the Broadway debut of Leonard Bernstein, Jerome Robbins, Betty Comden and Adolph Green, a foursome known as “the kids.”
At 25, Alex Sharp is preparing for his Broadway debut, playing a 15-year-old mathematician in “The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time.”
Glenn Close is returning to Broadway for the first time in 20 years this fall in Edward Albee’s “A Delicate Balance.”
Innovative musical theater Off Broadway is having a fertile season, with characters including superheroes, a serial killer and Alexander Hamilton.