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What's the going rate for a soul these days? A little more than $200 on weekends, less on weekdays, handling fees included. That's the ticket price for 'Life and Trust,' […]

The new Broadway play conjures a group as dazzling as peak Fleetwood Mac. This is how five actors with limited training (one never held a bass) became rock stars. About [...]

Jessica Lange stars as a ferocious matriarch alongside Celia Keenan-Bolger and Jim Parsons in Vogel's latest family drama. In the first scene of ''Mother Play: A Play in Five Evictions,'' [...]

At the sound of a gunshot, a performer, wreathed in white silks, tumbles from the ceiling. His body somersaults, over and over, faster and faster, until it hangs suspended, just [...]

Though a tour de force for its actors, an Off Broadway adaptation of Philip Roth's willfully obscene 1995 novel is too faithful to its source. John Turturro begins the New [...]

Directed by Hansol Jung and Dustin Wills, this sportive, vividly acted production fails to make a convincing case for its new gags and directorial flights. ''Romeo and Juliet'' is at [...]

The 17th-century play, staged by the theater company Molière in the Park, skewers those who preach morality yet practice anything but. I like to think that Molière, the great French [...]

Tornadoes whoosh dinner from the table and a shark swims through a flooded living room in a clown show that brings the environmental crisis home. A clown show and a [...]

With a 17th-century grocer as its hero, Red Bull Theater and Fiasco stage a 400-year-old comedy that's both a satire of the theater and a valentine to it. When did [...]

Zadie Smith brings her first play, an adaptation of Chaucer's the Wife of Bath tale, to the Brooklyn Academy of Music. This April, in New York, when the rains have [...]

Human ingenuity and animal grace course through this rich, inventive play about difficult choices and the stories we tell to make sense of them. The butterflies enter first, quivering gaily [...]

Attention to culinary detail is the best part of this heavily seasoned family drama by Christin Eve Cato at the WP Theater. ''Sancocho,'' a new play by Christin Eve Cato, [...]

Keith Bunin's gentle, rueful play at Lincoln Center's Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater settles down among six passengers traveling from Los Angeles to Seattle. A northbound trip on the Coast Starlight, [...]

At La Jolla Playhouse, the musical adaptation of the novel and film has considerable appeal, but is weighed down by too many characters and themes. LA JOLLA, Calif. -- No [...]

An affectionate elegy to a Greenwich Village restaurant, Neil Pepe's production at Atlantic Theater orders everything on the menu. The midcentury novelist Dawn Powell, Greenwich Village's great chronicler, wrote that [...]

The Public Theater's experimental theater festival is back in person for the first time since 2020. Here, our critics review a handful of the works on display. 'Your Sexts Are [...]

The Under the Radar festival kicks off with an allegory about climate destruction by the Belgian provocateurs Ontroerend Goed. Stop me if you've heard this one before: A woman. A [...]

A play first performed in a tavern in 1665 survives with its title, and the court case it precipitated, intact -- but nothing else. The first scripted performance in colonial [...]

Early 20th-century San Francisco and Guangdong, China, overlap in Lloyd Suh's artful examination of the emotional price of immigration. A young man in a fine suit outlines the terms of [...]

Jefferson Mays stars in a Broadway adaptation of the Dickens classic, a one-man production that was originally live-captured for streaming. Has Jefferson Mays ever met a role -- or a [...]

Will Arbery's play explores the existential dread filling the minds of an Illinois city's public employees with the subtlety of a polar vortex. To be human is to be buffeted [...]

In Quiara Alegría Hudes's new play at the Signature Theater, five performers try to summon generations of willful women. English was the playwright Quiara Alegría Hudes's first language. But her [...]

The Irish actor's one-man show on Broadway delves into painful and playful memories alike. He even imitates the oddballs of his Dublin boyhood. The Irish actor Gabriel Byrne has a [...]

Not quite a comedy and not quite a thriller, Kate Tarker's play is an antic study of two women preparing for a game (or possibly an attack). In a basement [...]

The playwright Jiehae Park's sly and polished adaptation of ''Macbeth'' transports the characters from the Scottish heath to the halls of a Midwestern high school. Toil and trouble? That's how [...]

A new play by Diane Davis at the New Ohio Theater addresses the topic head-on, but clumsily, our critic writes. It has been about five years since the rise of [...]

This three-actor play initiates a dialogue with Georg Büchner's ''Woyzeck,'' examining men's violence against women. Girlish, perilous, sexy and bleak, Minor Theater's ''Marie It's Time,'' at Here, resurrects a marginal [...]

David Strathairn is remarkable in a solo show about Jan Karski, who was profoundly changed by what he witnessed during World War II. There are catastrophes so terrible that the [...]

The comedian Kate Berlant's latest experiment, directed by Bo Burnham at the Connelly Theater, positions her as an actress with a semi-traumatic origin story. There are more than 40 individual [...]

This shimmering Shakespeare adaptation at the Delacorte Theater retains the outline of the original, while making space for songs. You don't have to sing along, though you may want to. [...]

The new Elton John-Shaina Taub musical, based on the popular film about a fashion-world ingénue and her demanding boss, isn't yet ready-to-wear. CHICAGO -- A movie-to-musical that wants to have [...]

Themes of change, death and rebirth abound in this peculiar production, a triumph of style and low-budget ingenuity. A spa day, a sound bath, a moving meditation and an initiation [...]

Themes of change, death and rebirth abound in this peculiar production, a triumph of style and low-budget ingenuity. A spa day, a sound bath, a moving meditation and an initiation [...]

Anne Washburn's 2012 play about a post-pandemic society reckoning with loss has not aged at all, our critic writes. Stories, like viruses, are transmissible. In the brain, in the blood, [...]

The Encores! revival of this fairy-tale musical, with songs by Stephen Sondheim, arrives on Broadway with its humor, wonder and humanity intact. After the woods and the wolf and the [...]

A new comedy by Steph Del Rosso starts as a satire of conservatives, then takes aim at progressives. Too bad the jokes barely cut either side. In America, to vote [...]

Our writer checked out two very different experiences in New York. In Netflix's TV re-creation, you fight Demogorgons. In ''Cascando,'' you walk off your existential angst. Before the pizza parlor, [...]

With war as a backdrop, Gab Reisman's lively comedy is content to hang out with a motley group of women at the dawn of modern capitalism. A siege is terrifying. [...]

Adapted from a 13th-century drama, Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's play is part ghost story, murder mystery and family melodrama. In the Chinese town of New Harmony, a three-year drought has ravaged [...]

The musical is Somi Kakoma's thank-you note, written across generations, to the South African singer and activist Miriam Makeba. If you want to see a performer in full command of [...]

Mara Vélez Meléndez's ''Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management and Economic Stability Board Members'' ferociously explores the intersection of the personal and the political. ''Notes on Killing Seven Oversight, Management [...]

A historical drama revisits a 19th-century scheme in which Irish girls of ''good character'' were encouraged to immigrate to Australia. In 1850, it took about three months to travel to [...]

This gentle musical, a hit at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, combines Scottish folklore and live looping technology. The island of Kinnan is grievously underpopulated. The school has closed. The last [...]

Sara Bareilles and Neil Patrick Harris lead a starry Encores! revival of Stephen Sondheim and James Lapine's sweet-sour musical. For nearly three decades, the Encores! concert series at New York [...]

Thornton Wilder's antic play, from 1942, packs in an ice age, a deluge and midcentury décor. This Lincoln Center Theater production is the maximalist revival it deserves. No fossil evidence [...]

From Bated Breath Theater Company, the antics of this show, which winds through the East Village, offer little insight into Andy Warhol or his work. It's so easy. A Breton [...]

The author of ''The Lehman Trilogy'' sets his new work in a fictional textiles factory, where workers debate in real time the new owners' demands. Though based on real events, [...]

John Douglas Thompson stars in Arin Arbus's caustic and assertive new production of the Shakespeare play. More than 30 years ago, John Douglas Thompson, then a successful salesman at a [...]

This hybrid of theater and game asks us to consider homelessness empathetically but can't overcome the friction between education and entertainment. In June, after a series of court battles, 60-some [...]

A lighthouse keeper, the nephew living with her and a Japanese employee are on alert for U-boats and graver threats in this chamber musical set in 1942. The ghosts, at [...]