What would it be like to conjure up a long-deceased family member and talk to them again in the twilight of your years? With Marjorie Prime, now at the Hayes, playwright Jordan Harrison has just done it, twice actually. Premiering originally in 2015 at The Mark Taper Forum, then in its New York premiere at…
Tartuffe, Moliere’s 17th-century farce about wealthy French people easily deluded by a religious hypocrite and moral reprobate, speaks to every age. Lucas Hnath’s new adaptation, now off-Broadway at New York Theater Workshop, utilizes more modern language, but the message remains. It’s easy to swindle those blind to reality, even in the face of overwhelming proof….
St. Ann’s Warehouse revives Eugene O’Neill’s Pulitzer Prize–winning Anna Christie with Michelle Williams inhabiting one of the most formidable roles in the American canon, under the assured direction of Thomas Kail. Set against the Brooklyn waterfront and supported by a distinguished ensemble including Tom Sturridge, Brian d’Arcy James, and Mare Winningham, this production reframes O’Neill’s…
“The time to sing is when your emotional level is just too high to speak anymore, and the time to dance is when your emotions are just too strong to only sing about how you feel.” – Bob Fosse That’s precisely what unfolds at the York Theatre’s Upper East Side stage in Gotta Dance. From…
Playwright Samuel D. Hunter makes his Broadway debut with this play that originally premiered last year at Steppenwolf Theatre in Chicago. Little Bear Ridge Road takes place in Idaho, somewhere on the outskirts of Troy, a desolate spot that is as foreign as the moon. That the action happens during the Covid pandemic, 2020-2022, only…
The assassination of Archduke Ferdinand in 1914 had cataclysmic results — Austro-Hungary declared war on Serbia — and unleashed the carnage known as WWI. The assassination was carried out by 19-year-old Gavrilo Princip, aided by fellow nationalists and members of the Black Hand. In Archduke, a dark absurdist comedy by Rajiv Joseph, now Off-Broadway at…
Initiative sweeps through four tumultuous years in a nowhere town on the California coast, where seven teenagers cling to one another as they stumble into friendship, first love, and the aching question of who they’re allowed to become. Guided with tender, clear-eyed direction by Emma Rosa Went, Else Went’s sprawling five-hour epic at The Public…
In its sweeping Broadway revival, Chess transforms a Cold War standoff into a pulse-pounding triangle of power, love, and betrayal. With Aaron Tveit, Lea Michele, and Nicholas Christopher at its center, Michael Mayer’s new production turns the world’s most cerebral game into a fierce theatrical showdown. Like Jesus Christ Superstar and Evita—also penned by lyricist…
Robert Icke’s Olivier Award–winning Oedipus arrives on Broadway as a sleek, nerve-jangling thriller, propelled by Mark Strong and Lesley Manville reprising their celebrated West End roles. Set on a tense national election night where every revelation threatens to upend the future, this electrifying adaptation thrusts Sophocles’ tragedy into an urgent modern arena where destiny collides…
Transferring from a successful run on the West End and the first fully original Broadway musical of the 2025–2026 season, “Two Strangers (Carry a Cake Across New York),” tells the story of an energizer-bunny Brit named Dougal, who has flown to New York for just two days to attend his estranged father’s wedding. Tasked with…