‘3 Mics’: Theater Review
Neal Brennan, the co-creator of ‘Chappelle’s Show,’ performs an evening combining stand-up comedy, personal monologues and one-liners, presented by John Legend.
‘The Maids’: Theater Review
Uzo Aduba (‘Orange Is the New Black’) and Zawe Ashton throw shade at one another, playing the help of mistress Laura Carmichael (‘Downton Abbey’) in Jean Genet’s drama.
‘Hughie’: Theater Review
Forest Whitaker makes his Broadway debut as a small-time gambler running on illusion in Michael Grandage’s staging of the Eugene O’Neill one-act.
‘Pericles’: Theater Review
Trevor Nunn directs Christian Camargo in the title role in this Theatre for a New Audience production of Shakespeare’s rarely performed late romance.
‘Dot’: Theater Review
A family copes with its matriarch’s worsening dementia in this comedy-drama written by ‘Fear the Walking Dead’ actor Colman Domingo.
‘Smokefall’: Theater Review
Zachary Quinto and Robin Tunney star in the off-Broadway premiere of Noah Haidle’s absurdist dark comedy, directed by Anne Kauffman.
‘Her Requiem’: Theater Review
Mare Winningham and Peter Friedman play the parents of a teenage girl composing a full-length requiem in Greg Pierce’s play, world-premiering at Lincoln Center.
‘Guys and Dolls’: Theater Review
Tony-winner Mary Zimmerman stages a stark version of Frank Loesser’s rich musical classic that never skimps on wit or charm.
‘School of Rock’: Theater Review
Cellooo! Andrew Lloyd Webber and Julian Fellowes team up to retool the popular Jack Black movie as a stage musical, enlisting a troupe of gifted preteens.
‘Lazarus’: Theater Review
David Bowie teams with Irish playwright Enda Walsh and Belgian avant-garde director Ivo van Hove on this unconventional music-theater project starring Michael C. Hall.
‘The Color Purple’: Theater Review
Newcomer Cynthia Erivo stars alongside Jennifer Hudson and Danielle Brooks, all three making their Broadway debuts, in director John Doyle’s reappraisal of the 2005 musical based on Alice Walker’s novel.
‘King Lear’: Theater Review
After Ionesco’s absurdist ‘Exit the King,’ Geoffrey Rush and director Neil Armfield reteam for Shakespeare’s straight-faced version in this new Sydney Theatre Company production.
‘The Bridges of Madison County’: Theater Review
Following its truncated Broadway run, Jason Robert Brown’s Tony-winning musical based on Robert James Waller’s best-selling romance novel stops in L.A. on its national tour.
‘Once Upon a Mattress’: Theater Review
Jackie Hoffman and John Epperson, better known as “Lypsinka,” star in this off-Broadway revival of Mary Rodgers’ venerable musical based on ‘The Princess and the Pea.’
‘Marjorie Prime’: Theater Review
Lois Smith plays an elderly woman coping with failing health with the help of an avatar of her late husband in Jordan Harrison’s futuristic drama.
‘These Paper Bullets!’: Theater Review
Rolin Jones’ farce spoofs the Beatles, resets ‘Much Ado About Nothing’ in 1964 London and features original songs by Green Day’s Billie Joe Armstrong.
‘Les Liaisons Dangereuses’: Theater Review
Dominic West and Janet McTeer play scheming serial seducers in this classic sexual revenge drama, which is back in the West End for a 30th anniversary revival.
‘Fiddler on the Roof’: Theater Review
Director Bartlett Sher’s reputation for enriching the dramatic texture of great American musicals is further cemented by this stirring revival starring Danny Burstein.
‘Bullets Over Broadway’: Theater Review
The Woody Allen musical that flamed out on Broadway is resurrected with a touring cast that brings new life to this frothy tale of thespians and thugs, though problems persist.
‘Louis & Keely “Live” at the Sahara’: Theater Review
Director Taylor Hackford and a top-notch cast resurrect the small-scale show that became a surprise success.
‘Maurice Hines Tappin’ Thru Life’: Theater Review
The veteran song and dance man recounts the story of his life and career, including his lengthy performing collaboration with his late brother Gregory.
‘Noises Off’: Theater Review
Campbell Scott plays the frazzled director and Andrea Martin is his daft veteran star in Michael Frayn’s ingenious 1982 farce about the challenges of staging a farce.
‘1984’: Theater Review
The Olivier-nominated adaptation of the George Orwell classic makes its North American debut.
‘Our Mother’s Brief Affair’: Theater Review
Linda Lavin stars as a dying woman looking to shift the perspective on her legacy of bitterness in Richard Greenberg’s memory play.
‘Escaped Alone’: Theater Review
Veteran British dramatist Caryl Churchill mixes domestic comedy with dystopian horror in her latest London premiere.
‘The Room’: Theater Review
Despite restrictions by the Pinter estate, the Wooster Group delivers an incomparable production of the playwright’s earliest drama.
‘The Woodsman’: Theater Review
The backstory of the Tin Man from ‘The Wizard of Oz’ is told via movement, mime and puppetry in this off-Broadway show.
‘Prodigal Son’: Theater Review
In John Patrick Shanley’s new drama, Timothee Chalamet plays a semi-fictionalized version of the playwright as a volatile youth, with Robert Sean Leonard as the English teacher who takes the boy under his wing.
‘An Act of God’: Theater Review
Sean Hayes steps into the Almighty role that was a hit on Broadway for Jim Parsons in the West Coast run of David Javerbaum’s comedy.
‘Mike Birbiglia: Thank God for Jokes’: Theater Review
Delivering an extended riff on the perils of joke-telling, the deadpan comic recounts offending David O. Russell and getting parenting tips from President Obama.
‘Smart People’: Theater Review
Mahershala Ali, Joshua Jackson, Anne Son and Tessa Thompson play multi-culti Harvard intellectuals tripping up on racial and sexual politics in Lydia R. Diamond’s topical comedy.
‘The End of Longing’: Theater Review
Matthew Perry wrote and stars in this comedy-drama, world-premiering in London’s West End, about four people struggling with love and addiction.
‘Barcelona’: Theater Review
Betty Gilpin (‘Nurse Jackie’) delivers a memorable turn opposite Carlos Leal in Bess Wohl’s dramatic two-hander about an encounter between strangers in the Catalan capital.
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