Updating ‘Gigi’ and Other ’50s Films Into Modern Broadway Musicals
By ANITA GATES
Sophisticated stagecraft and the contributions of artists with 21st-century sensibilities have worked their magic on some dangerous midcentury mores.
David Javerbaum at his California home.
Jim Parsons plays God in this play, making comedic observations based on Mr. Javerbaum’s God Twitter account.
Sophisticated stagecraft and the contributions of artists with 21st-century sensibilities have worked their magic on some dangerous midcentury mores.
In “The Painted Rocks at Revolver Creek,” the acclaimed playwright brings Nukain Mabuza’s life and art to a larger audience.
A stressed-out single mother makes her first foray into online dating, and almost instantly receives a call from Shackleton, the celebrated British polar explorer of the early 1900s.
Domestic tensions at a birthday party dominate this play, Mr. Kinnear’s debut as a writer.
Philip S. Birsh, the president and chief executive of Playbill, owns Tencendur, the Wood Memorial runner-up, who will compete in Saturday’s Kentucky Derby.
Fiasco Theater’s frolicking production makes a case for a little-loved comedy as a testament to the charms of vacillating youth.
Ruben Santiago-Hudson’s drama, at Two River Theater in New Jersey, is less a play than a poignant, often powerful polemic.
The death by poison of the “Ziegfeld Follies” beauty in Paris in 1920 is the subject of an immersive theater piece at the Liberty Theater.
Tony Award-nominated actors on the moment they knew they were destined for the stage.
Recommended shows from Ben Brantley, Charles Isherwood and other theater critics for The New York Times.
Recent show reviews from Ben Brantley, Charles Isherwood and other theater critics for The New York Times.
A critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.
Top-grossing Broadway shows for the week ending April 26.
The musicals “An American in Paris” and “Fun Home” tied for the most nominations, 12, with 10 for “Something Rotten!”
The complete list of nominated shows, performers, designers and others.
With this show at La MaMa, an attack on institutionalized killing, Belarus Free Theater displays its customary razor-sharp commentary.
The central characters in John Ford’s play, from Red Bull Theater, are about as star-crossed from the get-go as possible.
Five Indian women describe their experiences of abuse in Yael Farber’s harrowing documentary drama at the Lynn Redgrave Theater.
The Oscar-winning actress plays a cocky pilot raining bombs down from afar on Iraq and Afghanistan in this play by George Brant, directed by Julie Taymor.
Celebrities are flocking to see the hip-hop musical “Hamilton” at the cozy Public Theater, setting off a mad status grab.
The 1968 musical adaptation of Nikos Kazantzakis’s novel “Zorba the Greek” is the final offering of this season’s Encores! series of musicals in concert.
Ms. von Furstenberg made her debut in the movies and on the Broadway stage in the early 1950s as a teenager and later reinvented herself as a television actress, writer and philanthropist.
This darkest of the major musicals by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II fits quite snugly into even the most doom-ridden opera season.
The artist talks about a series of paintings he created for the set design of the Rodgers and Hammerstein musical at the Lyric Opera of Chicago.
Many of these shows are currently in previews.
