Popping up once a year, works like Dickens’s holiday tale, “Amahl and the Night Visitors” and “It’s a Wonderful Life” help us gauge where we are in our lives.
Category: Theater (Off Broadway)
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Meryl Streep and More Stars Toast Tom Hanks in ‘This World of Tomorrow’
A crowd that included Meryl Streep, Martin Short and Steve Martin packed the Shed for the actor’s new show, “This World of Tomorrow.”
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‘The Seat of Our Pants’ Review: Songs for the World’s End
Ruthie Ann Miles, Shuler Hensley and Micaela Diamond lead a dream-team cast in Ethan Lipton’s musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth.”
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‘Girl, Interrupted,’ With Aimee Mann Songs, to Be Staged in New York
The Public Theater will present the play, which Martyna Majok adapted from the best-selling memoir.
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Has Theater Become Everybody’s Church?
New shows by Jen Tullock, Jordan E. Cooper and others have a common theme: You can walk away from the church, but the songs stay with you.
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‘Paranormal Activity’ Wants to Scare You From the Stage
Like “Stranger Things” and “Harry Potter,” this horror film franchise is branching out with an original story that aims to pull the rug from under theatergoers.
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‘Oh Happy Day!’ Review: And God Told Keyshawn to Build an Ark
An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.
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Review: Aubrey Plaza Shines in Ethan Coen’s Retrograde ‘Let’s Love!’
It’s unusual for an Atlantic Theater Company production to feel so uninspired, but in this set of one-acts, committed actors are let down by juvenile language.
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Review: Is Dylan Mulvaney ‘The Least Problematic Woman in the World’?
In her bold, funny solo show, the social media influencer details a life of identity-searching, controversy and a determination to be absolutely herself.
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‘Caroline’ Review: Chloë Grace Moretz as a Mother Starting Over
The actress stars in a closely observed new drama by Preston Max Allen about addiction, class and the safety of a transgender 9-year-old.
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‘Masquerade’ Review: ‘Phantom of the Opera’ Gets the Immersive Remix
Andrew Lloyd Webber’s “The Phantom of the Opera” returns to New York in an immersive spectacle, as silly as it is thrilling.