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Randy Danson (Linda) and Emily Cass McDonnell in Lucas Hnath's <em>The Thin Place</em>, directed by Les Waters, at Playwrights Horizons.
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The Thin Place Plays Scary Games With Your Suspension of Disbelief
Lucas Hnath's new play debunks communication with the afterlife…or does it?
Harry Connick Jr. in his new concert, <em>A Celebration of Cole Porter</em>.
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Harry Connick Jr. Brings a Goofy Cole Porter Tribute to Broadway
The jazz musician takes the stage at the Nederlander for a holiday-season run.
The cast of <em>Judgment Day</em> appears on Paul Steinberg's set at Park Avenue Armory.
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A Life Derails in Judgment Day
Christopher Shinn adapts Ödön von Horváth's rarely performed 1937 drama for Park Avenue Armory.
Jamyl Dobson as Kinda Ex-Boyfriend and Leland Fowler as Donté.
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One in Two Looks at the Absurdity of Being a Black, Queer, HIV-Positive Man
Donja R. Love's semiautobiographical play makes its world premiere.
Nina Hellman, Judith Ivey, Ken Narasaki, Edmund Donovan, and Andrew Garman appear in Samuel D. Hunter's <em>Greater Clements</em>, directed by Davis McCallum, at Lincoln Center Theater.
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An American Town Dissolves and a Family Struggles to Remain Solid in Greater Clements
Judith Ivey and Edmund Donovan star in Samuel D. Hunter's latest drama.
Esteban Andres Cruz (center) plays Venus in <em>Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven</em>.
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Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven Could Easily Go Straight to Netflix
Stephen Adly Guirgis debuts his sprawling comedy-drama at Atlantic Theater Company.
John Skelley (Harry) and Benjamin Papac (Albus) in a scene from <em>Harry Potter and the Cursed Child</em> at the Curran in San Francisco.
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Harry Potter and the Cursed Child Casts a Spell for Potter Fans
The two-part epic brings its magical story and staging to San Francisco's Curran.
Lauren Patten (center) sings "You Oughta Know" in <em>Jagged Little Pill</em>.
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Alanis Morissette's Jagged Little Pill Becomes Diablo Cody's Jagged Little Broadway Musical
Broadway's latest jukebox comes in a pillbox.
Len Cariou and Craig Bierko star in George Eastman's <em>Harry Townsend's Last Stand</em>, directed by Karen Carpenter, at New York City Center Stage II.
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A Son and His Elderly Father Have "The Talk" in Harry Townsend's Last Stand
Len Cariou and Craig Bierko star in George Eastman's new play.
Dep Kirkland plays John Paris, and Christine Evangelista plays Karen in <em>MsTrial</em>.
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MsTrial: When Sexual Tension Crosses the Line Into Sexual Assault
Dep Kirkland's 2002 play receives a belated off-Broadway debut.
Eric Peters plays Walking Dead Guy, and Kayla Catan plays Keira in Bob and Tobly McSmith's <em>Love Actually? The Unauthorized Musical Parody</em>, directed by Tim Drucker, at the Jerry Orbach Theater.
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Love Actually? The Unauthorized Musical Parody Is a Rom-Com Roasting on an Open Fire
The 2003 British Christmas film starred Hugh Grant and Keira Knightley.
Angel Lin (Charlotte), Dee Hoty (Madame), Ashley Blanchet (Ella), and Rose Hemingway (Gabrielle) in <em>Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella</em> at Paper Mill Playhouse.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein's Cinderella Is a Lovely Night at Paper Mill Playhouse
The 2013 Broadway musical version of Cinderella comes to New Jersey for the holidays, starring Ashley Blanchet.
Jonathan Hadary, Nikki M. James, Michael Esper, and Crystal Lucas-Perry in <em>A Bright Room Called Day</em>, running through December 15, at the Public Theater.
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Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Corrects Its Past Mistakes — and Hopes America Will Too
Kushner updates his Reagan-era critique of dangerous right-wing politics for a new production at the Public Theater.
Sydney Farley (Ya-Ya), Jasmine Forsberg (Rat), Emerson Mae Smith (Kitty), Lena Skeele (Dorothy), Tatiana Wechsler (Judith), and Amina Faye (Susannah Son) in Two River Theater’s world premiere of Joe Iconis's <em>Love in Hate Nation</em>.
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Love in Hate Nation Is Not the New Orange Is the New Black
Joe Iconis's women-in-prison musical makes its world premiere at Two River Theater.
Amelia Workman plays Fefu in the off-Broadway revival of María Irene Fornés's <em>Fefu and Her Friends</em>, directed by Lileana Blain-Cruz, for Theatre for a New Audience at the Polonsky Shakespeare Center.
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Fefu and Her Friends: Can Misogyny Exist in a Play Without Any Men?
Theatre for a New Audience stages the first off-Broadway revival of María Irene Fornés's masterwork.
Aidan Quinn stars in <em>The Young Man From Atlanta</em>.
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The Young Man From Atlanta and the Old Man From Houston
Signature Theatre revives a Horton Foote play that it premiered 24 years ago.
Zal Owen, Vishal Vaidya, and Michael McCoy star in Joanne Sydney Lesner and Joshua Rosenblum's musical <em>Einstein's Dreams</em>.
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In Einstein's Dreams, a Young Albert Einstein Has Visions of Time and Love
Joanne Sydney Lessner and Joshua Rosenblum's adaptation of Alan Lightman's bestselling novel comes to 59E59 Theaters.
Rose McIver, Louis Mustillo, Andy Garcia, and Stephen Borrello in <em>Key Largo</em>, directed by Doug Hughes, at the Geffen Playhouse.
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Key Largo Is Full of Sound but Lacks Fury
An adaptation of the famous Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall film comes to the Geffen.
Hannah Cabell and Howard Overshown in the world premiere of Will Eno's <em>The Underlying Chris</em>, directed by Kenny Leon, at Second Stage.
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The Underlying Chris Asks, What's in a Name? It Might Not Be a Self
Will Eno debuts his latest exploration of life, death, and the identity that coalesces in between.
Reverend Parris (Randolph Curtis Rand) confronts Tituba (Shirine Babb) in <em>The Crucible</em>.
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The Crucible Conjures the Moral Panic That Fuses American Generations Together
Bedlam revives Arthur Miller's 1953 play about the Salem witch trials.
Campbell Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge in Jack Thorne's adaptation of <em>A Christmas Carol</em>, directed by Matthew Warchus, at the Lyceum Theatre.
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A Christmas Carol Brings Artistry to Broadway's Holiday Season
Jack Thorne adapts the Charles Dickens tale for a new production at the Lyceum Theatre, starring Campbell Scott.
Anthony Roth Costanzo (center) stars in Philip Glass's <em>Akhnaten</em>, directed by Phelim McDermott, at the Metropolitan Opera.
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In Akhnaten at the Met, a Pharaoh Juggles Revolution
Director Phelim McDermott stages a grand revival of the Philip Glass opera.
Francesca Faridany plays Marie Curie in Lauren Gunderson's <em>The Half-Life of Marie Curie</em>, directed by Gaye Taylor Upchurch, for Audible at the Minetta Lane Theatre.
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The Half-Life of Marie Curie Shows How Marie Got Her Groove Back
Audible produces Lauren Gunderson's two-person play about the friendship between Curie and Hertha Ayrton.
Mummenschanz's <em>Re:Play</em> runs at the New Victory Theater through December 1.
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Ordinary Things Become Extraordinary in Mummenschanz's Re:Play
Strange creatures with familiar faces await audiences at the New Victory Theater.