Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ Diane Lane stars in this terminally confused production of Chekhov’s play, about a woman who faces a changing reality when she returns to her childhood home. By BEN BRANTLEY
Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ Jamie Horton gives a strong performance as George Orwell in an otherwise standard play at 59E59 Theaters that imagines Orwell promoting “Animal Farm” in the United States. By KEN JAWOROWSKI
Free Tickets for Playwrights Who Can’t Afford the Theater Theaters across the country have signed on to an initiative that makes unsold tickets available to student and professional writers. By MICHAEL PAULSON
Review: ‘Stuffed’ Details Fights Women Wage With Their Weight The play, written by and starring Lisa Lampanelli, is a patchwork of standup comedy and monologues that are only loosely sewn together. By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
This Time, Anna Deavere Smith Cuts Close to Home Her new play, “Notes From the Field,” looks at crime, education and the Baltimore she left behind. By KATE TAYLOR
Review: In ‘Career Suicide,’ Laughing When It Hurts Chris Gethard’s solo show grapples with his uncomfortable if often mordantly funny relationship to depression. By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Review: ‘Heisenberg’ Features an Explosive Pairing of Actors The play, making its transfer to Broadway with Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt, finds a potentially psychotic American woman meeting a British butcher. By BEN BRANTLEY
Theater Listings for Oct. 14-20 A critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.
Art Review At ‘Doomocracy,’ It’s Fright Night in Brooklyn You know that Pedro Reyes’s political house of horrors in the Brooklyn Army Terminal is theater, but some acts make your pulse jump and disarm your defenses. By HOLLAND COTTER
Slide Show Step Inside a Satirical Haunted House Pedro Reyes’s “Doomocracy” is a mobile drama with rapid pacing, where visitors encounter a variety of fright-inducing short acts.
Clash of the Cosmetics Titans: ‘War Paint‘ Is Coming to Broadway Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole are to star in the musical, which is to start previews on March 7 at the Nederlander Theater. By MICHAEL PAULSON
‘Hamilton’ and Heartache: Living the Unimaginable Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater, helped create “Hamilton.” But alongside that triumph came personal tragedy. By MICHAEL PAULSON
Dario Fo, Whose Plays Won Praise, Scorn and a Nobel, Dies at 90 The Nobel-Prize-winner is best known for the “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” and his one-man show “Mistero Buffo” (“Comic Mystery”). By JONATHAN KANDELL
Review: ‘The Dudleys’: Dad’s in Control. From Beyond the Grave. In Leegrid Stevens’s play, a dead, zombielike father plays on as his squabbling family surveys its present and re-enacts its past against a video-game background. By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Review: Christine Ebersole Has a Soundtrack for Starting New Chapters The singer explores the options of a woman who suddenly finds her nest empty in “After the Ball” at Café Carlyle. By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Corbin Bleu, on Broadway and Dancing in Fred Astaire’s Footsteps The “High School Musical” star straps on his tap shoes for “Holiday Inn,” a new musical take on the 1942 film. By REBECCA MILZOFF
Mikhail Baryshnikov Prepares to Portray, What Else, a Dancer “Letters to a Man” looks at Vaslav Nijinsky in a performance piece from Robert Wilson. By BEN BRANTLEY
On PBS, the Story of ‘Hamilton’ and Hamilton The Broadway musical and the man it’s about are the subject of a “Great Performances” documentary. By NEIL GENZLINGER
Review: In ‘The God Projekt,’ He’s Old and Alone but Still Almighty This play features Kevin Augustine as a broken-down heavenly father who is better at making promises than answering prayers. By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
Review: In ‘Acoustically Speaking,’ a ‘Rent’ Duo Returns Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, who starred in the original Broadway cast, team up to pay tribute to musical theater’s relationship with modern pop. By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Review: All’s Not Well in This ‘Cherry Orchard’ Diane Lane stars in this terminally confused production of Chekhov’s play, about a woman who faces a changing reality when she returns to her childhood home. By BEN BRANTLEY
Review: A Dynamic Actor Redeems ‘Orwell in America’ Jamie Horton gives a strong performance as George Orwell in an otherwise standard play at 59E59 Theaters that imagines Orwell promoting “Animal Farm” in the United States. By KEN JAWOROWSKI
Free Tickets for Playwrights Who Can’t Afford the Theater Theaters across the country have signed on to an initiative that makes unsold tickets available to student and professional writers. By MICHAEL PAULSON
Review: ‘Stuffed’ Details Fights Women Wage With Their Weight The play, written by and starring Lisa Lampanelli, is a patchwork of standup comedy and monologues that are only loosely sewn together. By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
This Time, Anna Deavere Smith Cuts Close to Home Her new play, “Notes From the Field,” looks at crime, education and the Baltimore she left behind. By KATE TAYLOR
Review: In ‘Career Suicide,’ Laughing When It Hurts Chris Gethard’s solo show grapples with his uncomfortable if often mordantly funny relationship to depression. By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Review: ‘Heisenberg’ Features an Explosive Pairing of Actors The play, making its transfer to Broadway with Mary-Louise Parker and Denis Arndt, finds a potentially psychotic American woman meeting a British butcher. By BEN BRANTLEY
Theater Listings for Oct. 14-20 A critical guide to productions in New York City, including shows in previews.
Art Review At ‘Doomocracy,’ It’s Fright Night in Brooklyn You know that Pedro Reyes’s political house of horrors in the Brooklyn Army Terminal is theater, but some acts make your pulse jump and disarm your defenses. By HOLLAND COTTER
Slide Show Step Inside a Satirical Haunted House Pedro Reyes’s “Doomocracy” is a mobile drama with rapid pacing, where visitors encounter a variety of fright-inducing short acts.
Clash of the Cosmetics Titans: ‘War Paint‘ Is Coming to Broadway Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole are to star in the musical, which is to start previews on March 7 at the Nederlander Theater. By MICHAEL PAULSON
‘Hamilton’ and Heartache: Living the Unimaginable Oskar Eustis, the artistic director of the Public Theater, helped create “Hamilton.” But alongside that triumph came personal tragedy. By MICHAEL PAULSON
Dario Fo, Whose Plays Won Praise, Scorn and a Nobel, Dies at 90 The Nobel-Prize-winner is best known for the “Accidental Death of an Anarchist” and his one-man show “Mistero Buffo” (“Comic Mystery”). By JONATHAN KANDELL
Review: ‘The Dudleys’: Dad’s in Control. From Beyond the Grave. In Leegrid Stevens’s play, a dead, zombielike father plays on as his squabbling family surveys its present and re-enacts its past against a video-game background. By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Review: Christine Ebersole Has a Soundtrack for Starting New Chapters The singer explores the options of a woman who suddenly finds her nest empty in “After the Ball” at Café Carlyle. By STEPHEN HOLDEN
Corbin Bleu, on Broadway and Dancing in Fred Astaire’s Footsteps The “High School Musical” star straps on his tap shoes for “Holiday Inn,” a new musical take on the 1942 film. By REBECCA MILZOFF
Mikhail Baryshnikov Prepares to Portray, What Else, a Dancer “Letters to a Man” looks at Vaslav Nijinsky in a performance piece from Robert Wilson. By BEN BRANTLEY
On PBS, the Story of ‘Hamilton’ and Hamilton The Broadway musical and the man it’s about are the subject of a “Great Performances” documentary. By NEIL GENZLINGER
Review: In ‘The God Projekt,’ He’s Old and Alone but Still Almighty This play features Kevin Augustine as a broken-down heavenly father who is better at making promises than answering prayers. By LAURA COLLINS-HUGHES
Review: In ‘Acoustically Speaking,’ a ‘Rent’ Duo Returns Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp, who starred in the original Broadway cast, team up to pay tribute to musical theater’s relationship with modern pop. By STEPHEN HOLDEN