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The characters in some plays -- generally the not-so-good ones -- leave your consciousness almost as soon as you leave the theater. Others stay a while, or never leave at [...]

The year just passed, or soon to pass anyway, has been inspiring, both on Broadway and off. As if speaking to the contentiousness of the election, it has also been [...]

The New York theater talked back this year -- to its audiences, to a nation, to the world. This new boldness made international headlines when a cast member of the [...]

For a theatrical evening with a gloomy title, ''The Dead, 1904,'' based on the celebrated James Joyce story (absent the date, of course), makes for an unusually sparkling affair. Unless [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDA fierce tide of feeling -- rage and despair, love and hope and exaltation -- courses through ''Can I Get a Witness?,'' an almost indefinable work of music theater [...]

A loose, loopy and enjoyable seminar on the making of ''The Wizard of Oz'' and its influence on pop culture, this Builders Association production, running through Dec. 18, combines live [...]

Even before you enter the auditorium at St. Ann's Warehouse to see Penny Arcade's solo show ''Longing Lasts Longer,'' the voice of the performer can be heard echoing through the [...]

As the title character in ''Dear Evan Hansen,'' a lonely teenager who inadvertently becomes a social media sensation and a symbol of the kindness that is often cruelly absent in [...]

Sometimes plain old pasta with red sauce is just what the doctor ordered. ''A Bronx Tale,'' which opened at the Longacre Theater on Broadway on Thursday, might be called the [...]

If your knees go weak at the mere sight of a roller coaster, and you shrink in your seat whenever a Six Flags commercial comes on television, you may want [...]

The musical ''Ride the Cyclone,'' which comes to New York courtesy of MCC Theater after an acclaimed, extended run in Chicago, has a premise as fanciful as it is freaky. [...]

Last time I checked, there were not a lot of laughs in Shakespeare's tragedy about a Moorish general beset by the green-eyed monster. Yet giggles abound in ''Othello: The Remix,'' [...]

Memory is notoriously unreliable, so I am hoping that mine quickly expunges any recollection of ''Memory Rings,'' an obscure, whimsy-sprinkled dance-theater work about, well, I'm not sure what. Trees, basically, [...]

Say it ain't so. Can it really be that Molly Ringwald, who for a generation of moviegoers -- my generation of moviegoers -- will forever be fondly recalled as the [...]

''When is the play gonna be over?'' wails a beleaguered character near the close of the first act of the Theater for a New Audience production of Carlo Goldoni's 18th-century [...]

Last time I checked, there were not a lot of laughs in Shakespeare's tragedy about a Moorish general beset by the green-eyed monster. Yet giggles abound in ''Othello: The Remix,'' [...]

There is good reason that '''Master Harold' ... and the Boys'' ranks among the South African writer Athol Fugard's most celebrated and popular plays. As the sterling new production that [...]

A couple comes together, breaks apart and just about everything in between in ''Homos, or Everyone in America,'' a daringly frank, funny and affecting new play by Jordan Seavey that's [...]

A Big Gulp plopped on top of a Steinway piano isn't something I ever expected to see. But there it was, almost towering over Kristin Chenoweth, the petite performer with [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDIn Lynn Nottage's scorching play ''Sweat,'' the bonds among a group of working-class friends and family are frayed to the breaking point by the pressure of an eroding economic [...]

Two lonely women search for connection online, with unexpected results, in ''Kingdom Come,'' a low-key but likable new comedy-drama by Jenny Rachel Weiner that opened at the Roundabout Underground on [...]

Two lonely women search for connection online, with unexpected results, in ''Kingdom Come,'' a low-key but likable new comedy-drama by Jenny Rachel Weiner that opened at the Roundabout Underground on [...]

With the Broadway season getting especially busy, we're here to offer monthly help on what you should see in New York. Here, the New York Times theater critic Charles Isherwood [...]

You don't have to squint too hard to discern unsettling contemporary relevance in the Red Bull Theater's gripping new production of Shakespeare's ''Coriolanus,'' which opened on Sunday at the Barrow [...]

Kristin Chenoweth, a Broadway baby if ever there was one, returns to the boards she's trod off and on for almost 20 years in a series of concert performances at [...]

A fierce, sad gale blows through ''Wilderness,'' a terrific, moving new multimedia theater piece about troubled youth being presented by En Garde Arts in association with Abrons Arts Center. The [...]

There's hardly a moment in the exhilarating, devastating revival of the musical ''Falsettos'' that doesn't approach, or even achieve, perfection. This singular show, about an unorthodox family grappling with the [...]

A fierce, sad gale blows through ''Wilderness,'' a terrific, moving new multimedia theater piece about troubled youth being presented by En Garde Arts in association with Abrons Arts Center. The [...]

For positive proof that in certain realms of theater, we have moved firmly beyond political correctness, see ''Vietgone,'' a raucous comedy by Qui Nguyen that strafes just about every subject [...]

Context is not everything when it comes to our experience of theater, but it's not nothing, either. ''The Harvest,'' a new play by Samuel D. Hunter about a group of [...]

CORRECTION APPENDEDA great fear of single urbanites comes unhappily true for the central character in ''A Life,'' a bleak new play by Adam Bock that opened on Monday at Playwrights [...]

Mikhail Baryshnikov, one of the great ballet dancers of the late 20th century, tries to evoke the violently disordered mind of Vaslav Nijinsky, one of the great ballet dancers of [...]

Given how the objectification and exploitation of women has become an ugly but central topic in the presidential campaign -- I trust I don't need to remind you of any [...]

There's New York-neurotic, with which many of us are familiar, ranging from the friend who insists on altering the most anodyne of food offerings, to the more serious cases, the [...]

A vintage video game opens a portal into a fractured family's past in ''The Dudleys!,'' a meandering, quirky comedy-drama by Leegrid Stevens presented by the Loading Dock Theater. In one [...]

The Christmas season seems to start earlier every year, it is often noted -- or lamented. Will we soon be hearing sleigh bells in spring? This year, the Roundabout Theater [...]

Important public service announcement: There are no scary clowns in the latest show from Cirque du Soleil, ''Kurios,'' which is being staged in a grand, old-school big top on Randalls [...]

The Roundabout Theater Company enters the seasonal-treats sweepstakes with ''Holiday Inn,'' a stage adaptation of the 1942 movie starring Bing Crosby as an entertainer who decides to call it quits, [...]

"The Lonely Few" is an intimate rock musical set in an unnamed Kentucky town. The story follows Lila, the lead singer of a band, as she navigates a budding love affair with Amy, a more established musician. The musical explores themes of family loyalty, sexuality, and the struggles of young people trying to find their place in the world. Lauren Patten delivers a moving and vocally impressive performance as Lila, anchoring the show with her powerful singing. The score by Zoe Sarnak is varied and emotionally resonant, with songs that reflect the characters' hopes, fears, and disappointments. While the book by Rachel Bonds may feel somewhat sketched-in at times, the characters are well-defined and the dialogue and songs are tightly woven together. Overall, "The Lonely Few" offers a compelling and affecting rock 'n' roll romance. [Extracted from the article]

"Here There Are Blueberries" is a powerful play by Moisés Kaufman and Amanda Gronich that explores the disturbing paradox of how seemingly ordinary German citizens became willing participants in the Holocaust. The play draws on interviews with real people and uses photographs taken at Auschwitz to depict the staff's relaxation and enjoyment amidst unimaginable horror. It focuses on the donation of a photograph album to the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum and examines the reactions of contemporary Germans to the album. The play's staging is simple and unemotional, allowing the impact of the visual imagery to speak for itself. [Extracted from the article]