Theater

  1. Review: ‘The Band’s Visit’ Is a Ravishing Musical That Whispers With Romance

    This singularly seductive show, based on an Israeli film, finds the ecstasy in ennui in a small desert town.

  2. Uma Thurman, Ready to Be Tested

    Hollywood’s “contempt and dismissiveness” toward women has led her to Broadway. In “The Parisian Woman,” she’ll be onstage for every minute of every scene.

  3. Review: ‘What We’re Up Against,’ a Sexism Story More Timely Than Ever

    Theresa Rebeck’s furious play looks at what happens when a young architect fights back against colleagues who don’t take her seriously.

  4. Review: ‘Office Hour’ Is the Play That Goes Bang

    In Julia Cho’s tense new work, a creative-writing teacher tries to reach a shut-down (and possibly armed) young student.

  5. Critic’s Notebook
    Nellie McKay Blossoms Under Pressure From Joan Rivers’s Lawyers

    A musical biography of Joan Rivers pulls together when the subject is deleted.

  6. Review: Charles Ludlam in the Cosmos Where ‘Queens Collide’
  7. Review: Distant Storytelling Leaves ‘Man to Man’ Cold
  8. Hear 8 Pieces of Music That Smartened Up ‘Latin History for Morons’
  9. Review: The Big Apple Circus Is Ripe for Another Bite
  11. What’s New in NYC Theater
  12. On Comedy: Kathy Griffin’s Wild Show: Defiant, Shaken, Then Fainting
  13. Lin-Manuel Miranda to Return to ‘Hamilton’ Role in Puerto Rico
  14. Review: ‘Hello Again,’ a Movie Musical Ode to Love and Lust Over Decades
  15. Review: Welcome to Prom. Try Not to Die.
  16. Brandeis Cancels Play About Lenny Bruce After Protests
  17. Review: ‘Lee Harvey Oswald,’ an American Assassin in Puppet Form
  18. ‘Kiss Me, Kate’ Will Head Back to Broadway With Kelli O’Hara
  19. Hear a Newly Found Kurt Weill Song That Surprised Experts
  20. The World Really Is a Stage, Scripts and All, to an Actor With Autism
  21. Putting the Ghosts of Princeton’s Racial Past Onstage
  22. Performance Space 122 to Return to Its East Village Home
  23. Review: ‘Uncommon Sense’ Looks at Life on the Autism Spectrum
  24. ‘Maybe I Am Arnold!’ How Michael Urie Agreed to Fill Harvey Fierstein’s Shoes
  25. Encounters: Preet Bharara Goes to the Theater and Sees a Familiar World on Stage