This play, by James Ijames, which won last year’s Pulitzer Prize for drama, transfers to Broadway from the Public. It’s a sometimes faithful, sometimes dizzyingly disruptive riff on...

Before the play starts, DJ (Khloe Janel) bathes the house with pop and R. & B. from the early two-thousands, but the work itself begins with Marvin Gaye’s “Star-Spangled...

In Tom Stoppard’s “Leopoldstadt,” we see the Merzes and the Jakoboviczes, two intermarried and interfaith Viennese families, in five different years—1899, 1900, 1924, 1938, and, at last,...

Translating a film to the stage stumps even the great Mira Nair, who conceived and directed this musical adaptation of her stunning 2001 film. It’s a violation of texture,...

Once upon a time in Chicago, a Britney Spears jukebox musical was poised to make its world première. Then, alas,...

Mischief, the British theatre company behind the long-running “The Play That Goes Wrong,” re-brews its crowd-pleasing screwball formula using the J. M. Barrie classic. Directed by Adam Meggido, with a...

Suzie Miller’s latest one-woman play—which comes to Broadway, directed by Justin Martin, after a widely ballyhooed première in London—runs on rhythm toward its harrowing end....

Eboni Booth’s delicate, dream-quiet play is a character study in search of a character: thirty-eight-year-old Kenneth (William Jackson Harper, astonishing on the edge of tears) certainly has traits—...

This play by David Auburn, commissioned and presented by Manhattan Theatre Club, recounts a fleeting but unforgettable friendship between two Midwestern mothers in America’s bicentennial year. Diana (Laura Linney)...

Tuesday evening. Seven New Yorkers have retreated from the daily bustle to come together at a Buddhist center. Their leader pings a meditation bowl, and they close their eyes, taking...

What are writers looking for when they set stories amid the radical movements of the sixties? Some of it, surely, is the moral certainty of that already settled era, its...