The NBA star’s trajectory forms the backdrop to a fluctuating friendship between two basketball fans in this play by Pulitzer Prize finalist Rajiv Joseph.
Theater Review
At 59E59 Theaters, the British playwright’s esoteric but insightful fusion of backstage comedy and fictional history depicts the rehearsal of a play about W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten.
Erika Dickerson-Despenza’s affecting play at the Public Theater focuses on a mother and her adult daughter riding out the maelstrom in a New Orleans bar.
“Some Like It Hot,” “Kimberly Akimbo” and “Leopoldstadt” are among the contenders for this year’s top prizes.
The stars take center stage in Lorraine Hansberry’s sly, little-seen play about a struggling couple in Greenwich Village.
Loosely inspired by the 1977 movie and featuring a mix of songs by John Kander, Fred Ebb and Lin-Manuel Miranda, this Broadway show polishes the Big Apple to a synthetic-looking shine.
The two actresses portray women recalling their growing closeness as young mothers in a sensitive new play by Pulitzer Prize winner David Auburn.
The solo play by Suzie Miller, which arrives in New York after an award-winning London run, stars the ‘Killing Eve’ actress as a defense lawyer who rethinks her belief in the legal system after being sexually assaulted.
Starring D’Arcy Carden and Katie Finneran, Larissa FastHorse’s play on Broadway is a funny if overly broad satire about über-progressives devising a Thanksgiving-themed theater piece for children.
Directed by Bartlett Sher, Lincoln Center Theater’s production of the Lerner and Loewe classic features a self-serious new book by the ‘West Wing’ creator.
James Ijames’s riff on ‘Hamlet,’ now on Broadway, is an unalloyed comedy pleasure.
Fusing a critique of racism with the deranged tropes of daytime television, the unwieldy new musical from Pulitzer Prize and Tony winner Michael R. Jackson is now playing at Second Stage Theater.
This Broadway show plows its way through a nonsensical, joke-stuffed book by Robert Horn and a lively country-music score by Brandy Clark and Shane McAnally.
Starring the remarkable actor Hiran Abeysekera, this adaptation of Yann Martel’s novel about an Indian boy adrift for months is a work of spectacular stagecraft.
The superstar vocalist headlines alongside Annaleigh Ashford in a full-scale Broadway revival of the macabre Stephen Sondheim classic, but he struggles to fully summon Sweeney’s anguished soul.
With music by Andrew Lloyd Webber and a book by Oscar winner Emerald Fennell, this Broadway show attempts to give Cinderella a contemporary twist.
The influential choreographer’s plotless 1978 show returns in an uneven Broadway revival directed by original cast member Wayne Cilento.
Ben Platt stars in a revival of Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown’s show about Leo Frank, a Jewish factory superintendent in Atlanta who was lynched after being wrongly convicted of the murder of a young girl in 1913
The actress stars in director Jamie Lloyd’s bare and bloodless Broadway production of the feminist classic, as adapted by playwright Amy Herzog.
The actress stars in a New Group production of playwright Thomas Bradshaw’s riotous contemporary adaptation of the Russian classic.
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