Theater Review

The Monty Python musical returns in this blissfully funny revival, directed by Josh Rhodes and featuring a first-rate cast that includes James Monroe Iglehart, Taran Killam and Ethan Slater.

The pop singer-songwriter’s admirable but busy musical centers on the Comedian Harmonists, a German vocal sextet with Jewish members whose success was cut short by the Nazis’ rise.

At the New Group, Elizabeth Marvel’s and Mr. Turturro’s performances in a stage version of the Philip Roth novel, adapted by the actor and Ariel Levy, can’t rescue this tale of a repellent sexual adventurer.

David Adjmi’s drama at Playwrights Horizons, with songs written by Will Butler of Arcade Fire, depicts the personal and musical struggles of a ’70s rock band as it attempts to record an album.

The actor plays a hoarder not ready to let go of his stuff despite the pleas of his loved ones—including his child, played by his daughter, Lucy DeVito—in Theresa Rebeck’s play on Broadway.

The master composer’s last musical, now onstage in a starry production at the Shed that features Bobby Cannavale, David Hyde Pierce and others, wittily adapts two films by Luis Buñuel.

Mint Theater Company mounts its third play by the early 20th-century British writer, which follows the savvy female proprietor of a dressmaking shop.

Patrick Page’s production at DR2 Theatre is an entertaining exploration of the playwright’s many malefactors, from Iago to Lady Macbeth.

Andrew Rannells and Josh Gad play two would-be theater impresarios attempting to put on a show about the inventor of the printing press in this energetic musical farce.

Stephen Sondheim’s 1981 musical about relationships and curdled dreams returns in thrilling form in Maria Friedman’s production, featuring the superb trio of Daniel Radcliffe, Jonathan Groff and Lindsay Mendez.

In New York, the Druid theater company presents three plays by Sean O’Casey that depict life amid the struggle for Irish independence during the early 20th century.

Jocelyn Bioh’s new Broadway comedy looks at the drama among a group of workers—most of them recent immigrants—at a Harlem beauty shop.

Ossie Davis’s knockabout 1961 comedy returns to Broadway in Kenny Leon’s production, which stars the Tony-winning actor as a preacher hoping to extract funds for a church from the plantation owner he fled decades before.

Theresa Rebeck’s play at 59E59 Theaters roots an engaging human drama in a plant shop; at SoHo Playhouse, Max Wolf Friedlich’s play depicts a session between a therapist and a tech employee who has recently suffered an emotional breakdown.

Now in New York after a successful run at Chicago’s Goodman Theatre, Rebecca Gilman’s affecting play follows a widow struggling to preserve her home amid a swirl of personal and small-town dramas.

At Atlantic Theater Company, the Pulitzer-winning writer’s latest drama focuses on five women at a California clinic—and is a compassionate, unsentimental study of suffering and the search for relief.

Creator and performer Catherine Waller’s off-Broadway solo show melds the macabre with disarming appeals to the audience.

The host of this minimalist off-Broadway magic show executes mystifying card tricks and mind games with disarming ease.

Tawni O’Dell’s play about an acclaimed author on his deathbed is a jumble of stereotypes, while Robert Montano’s one-man show is a vivid account of a young man who yearns to be a jockey.

David Cromer and Marin Ireland star in this intimate New York production of the classic play.