"Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway," and impossibly energetic, at the Broadhurst Theater.
In “Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway” the impossibly talented, impossibly energetic Mr. Jackman is a glorious dinosaur among live entertainers of the 21st century: an old-fashioned matinee idol.
There’s considerable theater-of-cruelty entertainment in watching four fledgling novelists cringe beneath the blistering stares, scornful dismissals and disdainfully curled lips of Alan Rickman in “Seminar.”
Have you ever been tempted at the theater to lean toward the stage and yell at the performers, "What did you say?"
In “__ Done Broke,” at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, D. J. Mendel plays a drunk who ruefully recalls better days.
In “Dreamless Land,” written and directed by Julia Jarcho, comedy and menace compete.
“The Blue Flower,” at Second Stage Theater, is a high-minded muddle of a musical that may leave you scratching your head.
“Pangs of the Messiah,” at the 14th Street Y, follows a family of Zionist settlers being removed from the West Bank in 2014 as part of a fictional peace treaty.
“Venus in Fur,” David Ives’s sexy comedy, has opened on Broadway with Hugh Dancy and Nina Arianda, who is giving the first must-see performance of the Broadway season.
Bill Irwin pops up like a daffodil in February amid the gray slush of the Public Theater’s “King Lear,” starring Sam Waterston and directed by James Macdonald.
A. R. Gurney’s depiction of upper-crust privilege in its death throes is revived by the Actors Company Theater in “Children,” a family drama at the Beckett Theater.
The Broadway revival of “Godspell”is like being trapped in a summer camp rec room with a bunch of kids who have been a little too reckless with the Red Bull.
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A selected guide to theater performances in New York, including previews and openings.
Nina Arianda and Hugh Dancy in a scene from David Ives's play at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater. (Video courtesy of Manhattan Theater Club.)
Julie Taymor, who was fired as director of “Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark,” is suing the producers for royalties.
What is the best new American drama of the first decade of this century? I would make the case for Kenneth Lonergan’s “Lobby Hero.”
Patrick Willingham, the former president and chief operating officer of Blue Man Productions, is the new executive director of the Public Theater.
The 83-year-old powerhouse Marilyn Maye is performing an all-Jerry Herman program at Feinstein’s at Loews Regency through Saturday.
Julia Brownell’s “All-American” is about a high school football player who happens to be a girl.
Michael John LaChiusa’s “Queen of the Mist” is a musical portrait of the obsessive Anna Edson Taylor, who made her name in 1901 by going over Niagara Falls in a barrel.
Randall Colburn’s “Verse Chorus Verse,” at the Cherry Lane Studio Theater, is a bitter valentine to the legacy of grunge.
Amy Herzog’s “Belleville” is a heartbreaking and hair-raising new play at Yale Repertory Theater about a young American couple living in Paris.
Many of these shows are currently in previews.
Interviews with performers, designers and others in the theater, on Broadway and off.
Video: 'Hugh Jackman: Back on Broadway'
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Document: Julie Taymor's 'Spider-Man' Lawsuit
