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The Delacorte Theater is being renovated, so a musical version of “The Comedy of Errors” is touring some of the city’s outdoor spaces. On a small stage, three actors practiced [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski 'Dead Letter No. 9,' 'Cocktail Magique' and 'Hypnotique' are offering theatergoers a taste of nightlife. A funny thing happened at Dead Letter No. 9, a new performance [...]

''Dead Letter No. 9,'' ''Cocktail Magique'' and ''Hypnotique'' are offering theatergoers a taste of nightlife. A funny thing happened at Dead Letter No. 9, a new performance space in Brooklyn. [...]

The first major New York revival of ''The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window,'' Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long? Lorraine Hansberry's ''The [...]

Byline: Alexis Soloski The first major New York revival of 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window,' Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 Broadway play, comes to BAM this month. What took so long? [...]

Literary influences suffuse this year's festival of avant-garde performance. Artists from six shows share the stories that inspired them. ''A story,'' the director Yngvild Aspeli said, ''is something that makes [...]

In a time of renewed awakening, a surprising number of shows smartly reflected those changes in song. Best Theater of 2022 | Unforgettable Experiences A Year That Kept on Singing, [...]

'A SOLDIER'S PLAY' AT THE AMERICAN AIRLINES THEATER (Through March 15) Charles Fuller's Pulitzer Prize-winning 1981 drama, directed by Kenny Leon and starring Blair Underwood (above) and David Alan Grier, [...]

Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at [...]

'MAC BETH' AT THE FREDERICK LOEWE THEATER (Through Feb. 22) A gaggle of teenage girls depart Dunsinane as Erica Schmidt's reimagining of the Scottish tragedy closes. Laura Collins-Hughes wrote that [...]

The Mint Theater Company pairs stage adaptations of short stories by the 19th-century Russian authors. They mesh like mismatched matryoshka dolls. In the winter of 1901 or 1902, Chekhov visited [...]

Haunted by Chekhov's ''The Seagull,'' Rachel Bonds's restless and friable play gathers a group of mostly artists at a lakeside retreat. PRINCETON -- One day, I'd like to see a [...]

CAPTION(S): PHOTOS: 'SLAVE PLAY' AT THE JOHN GOLDEN THEATER (Through Jan. 19) A work that has changed the Broadway conversation around race, sex, audiences, ticket prices and even talkbacks, Jeremy [...]

'OUR DEAR DEAD DRUG LORD' AT THE MCGINN/CAZALE THEATER (Through Jan. 5) It's time to put away the Ouija board for Alexis Scheer's Off Broadway play, directed by Whitney White [...]

Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at [...]

'THE HALF-LIFE OF MARIE CURIE' AT THE MINETTA LANE THEATER (closes on Sunday). Lauren Gunderson's play about chemistry -- onstage and otherwise -- ends its experiment. Francesca Faridany (left) stars [...]

'FOR COLORED GIRLS WHO HAVE CONSIDERED SUICIDE/WHEN THE RAINBOW IS ENUF' AT THE PUBLIC THEATER (Through Dec. 15) Leah C. Gardiner's ecstatic, anguished revival of Ntozake Shange's choreopoem reaches its [...]

'SCOTLAND, PA' AT THE LAURA PELS THEATER AT THE HAROLD AND MIRIAM STEINBERG CENTER FOR THEATER (Through Dec. 8) Adam Gwon and Michael Mitnick's update of Shakespeare's ''Macbeth,'' with '70s [...]

'IS THIS A ROOM' AT THE VINEYARD THEATER (Through Nov. 24) Tina Satter's lauded play, based on a transcript of an F.B.I. interview with the whistle-blower Reality Winner, ends its [...]

'SOFT POWER' AT THE PUBLIC THEATER (Through Nov. 17) David Henry Hwang and Jeanine Tesori's new play, a metatheatrical meditation on creativity and control, lowers its curtain. This show, about [...]

'LINDA VISTA' AT THE HAYES THEATER (Through Nov. 10) Tracy Letts's comedy about a toxic middle-aged man heads into its final performances. Ian Barford (above right, with Jim True-Frost) stars [...]

'RUNBOYRUN' AND 'IN OLD AGE' AT NEW YORK THEATER WORKSHOP (Through Sunday) These paired plays, chapters of Mfoniso Udofia's nine-part epic about a Nigerian-American family, finish their Off Broadway run. [...]

'SEA WALL/A LIFE' AT THE HUDSON THEATER (Through Sept. 29) Make sure you have handkerchiefs at the ready for the final performances of Simon Stephens and Nick Payne's twinned one-acts [...]

''Will you take a picture of my severed head?'' Derren Brown asked, dropping to his knees and angling himself behind a couple of trick mirrors that vanished him from the [...]

'DOUGLAS' AT THE DARYL ROTH THEATER (Through Sept. 14) This solo show from Hannah Gadsby (above), named for her dog, says goodbye to New York. Like ''Nanette,'' its celebrated predecessor, [...]

'WHAT THE CONSTITUTION MEANS TO ME' AT THE HELEN HAYES THEATER (Through Aug. 24) The harrowing, hilarious interrogation that Heidi Schreck (above) undertakes regarding her family's and our nation's history [...]

'THE CHER SHOW' AT THE NEIL SIMON THEATER (Through Aug. 18) Do you believe in life after Broadway? This jukebox bio-musical, which needed three actresses -- Micaela Diamond, Teal Wicks [...]

'FRANKIE AND JOHNNY IN THE CLAIR DE LUNE' AT THE BROADHURST THEATER (Through July 28) Arin Arbus's revival of Terrence McNally's 1987 drama, with Michael Shannon and Audra McDonald (above) [...]

These are the facts, more or less: On Dec. 5, 1975, Ronald Egleton, of Luton, England, killed his wife, Barbara Egleton, bludgeoning her with a hammer and leaving her in [...]

'INK' AT THE SAMUEL J. FRIEDMAN THEATER (Through Sunday) James Graham's play (above), which explores Rupert Murdoch's early forays into tabloid journalism, makes its final headlines. According to Ben Brantley, [...]

Forty-odd years ago, a little boy on Long Island had one dream: to star in a Broadway show. The straight razors, tarantulas and latex naughty-nurse costumes? Those came later. In [...]

At the end of a dinner break recently, a group of actors and designers sprawled in a loose circle. Two men huddled together, sharing an online video, another man scrolled [...]

Our guide to cultural events in New York City for children and teenagers happening this weekend and in the week ahead. 'AROUND THE WORLD IN 80 DAYS' at the New [...]

'AIN'T NO MO'' AT THE PUBLIC THEATER (Closing on May 5) Jordan E. Cooper's debut play, a comedy with turbulence, comes in for a landing. This series of vignettes is [...]

'THE TRIAL OF THE CATONSVILLE NINE' AT ABRONS ARTS CENTER (Closing on Feb. 23) The Transport Group's revival of Daniel Berrigan's 1971 play about a band of antiwar activists closes [...]

At Earrings Plaza, a Herald Square emporium devoted to all things bright, beautiful and cubic zirconium, the costume designer Montana Levi Blanco plucked a pair of feathery blue danglers from [...]

Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at [...]

'STRAIGHT WHITE MEN' AT THE HAYES THEATER This family drama, which is set during Christmastime, packs up its stockings and plastic tree on Sept. 9. The critic Jesse Green described [...]

'GIRLS & BOYS' AT THE MINETTA LANE THEATER Dennis Kelly's harrowing solo show, starring a translucent Carey Mulligan (above), puts away its toys on July 22. Ben Brantley wrote that [...]

Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages -- and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are [...]

Some tennis matches are tragedies. Some are comedies. Some are farces. And the outfits are pretty nifty, too. With the sport's mix of grace and ferocity, brains and brute force, [...]

''I would love to see more trans stories by trans people in every theater,'' the playwright MJ Kaufman said. ''That'd be great.'' Kaufman, a transgender writer who foregoes honorifics like [...]

On a rainy Tuesday morning, the actor John Gallagher Jr. settled into a chair in a lounge above the American Airlines Theater and described a bleary night off, which began [...]

A calendar of entertainment events for the New York City area in March 2009 is presented which includes a panel discussion between New York City police and a group of graffiti artists, a comedy performance called "Imposters!" and a performance titled "SOS."

The article focuses on television actor Ian Barford and his role as the main character in "Linda Vista," by Tracy Letts, a Broadway play about a toxic man in midlife who may or may not achieve decontamination. Topics discussed include how Barford can tell when the audience has turned against him, background of Barford and Barford's expectations for the play and for his character.

A calendar of entertainment and social events for the week of May 27, 2010 in New York City, New York is presented. Events include a Literary Pub Crawl, a performance by musical band Reverend Horton Heat and the theatrical production "Get Mad at Sin!"

The article offers information on several theatricals to be held at New York from January 25-26, 2020 including "Queens Row," "Sing Street," and "The Thin Place".