‘Tristan & Yseult’
The director Emma Rice’s quirky take on the love story that inspired the Wagner opera of the same title returns to St. Ann’s, where it first played in 2014. At the time, The New York Times described the “ecstasy-drunk” show as “equal parts exaggerated whimsy and overwhelming rue.” (Through Nov. 22, St. Ann’s Warehouse)
‘The Woman on the Edge’
Like a good number of shows at SoHo Playhouse, Elf Lyons’s solo straddles the line between comedy and theater. The British performer’s high-concept take on the autobiographical monologue brings to mind such masters of archness as Meow Meow and Lypsinka. (Through Nov. 8, SoHo Playhouse)
‘Legerdemain’
The excellent Danielle Skraastad (“Hurricane Diane”) plays a New England waitress in Lynn Rosen’s new play. The expert illusionist Steve Cuiffo is credited as magic consultant, and we’re always at least intrigued when he’s involved in something. (Through Nov. 22, the Tank)
‘We’ll See’
The Apples are back! Richard Nelson has added an entry to his sprawling “Rhinebeck Panorama” cycle with this play set on the midterm Election Day of 2026. Happily, regulars Jay O. Sanders, Maryann Plunkett, Sally Murphy and Laila Robins have returned as well. (Through Nov. 29, Public Theater)
‘The King’s Critique’
Nat Zegree and Eric Holmes’s new musical comedy seems to aim for campy satire. What’s certain is that the cast is stacked, led by Sky Lakota-Lynch (“The Outsiders”), Taylor Iman Jones (“Six,” “Head Over Heels”) and Justin Collette (most recently of “Beetlejuice”). (Nov. 3-Dec. 20, Pershing Square Signature Center)
‘Traitorz: The Unauthorized Musical Parody’
The reality competition series “The Traitors” gets a spoofy musical treatment from Ben Fankhauser and Tim Murray. Dylan Adler hosts as Alan Cumming, and the contestants include Jennifer Coolidge, Patti LuPone and Morgan Freeman — well, not the real ones. (Nov. 4-Jan. 31, St. Luke’s Theater)
‘Seven Guitars’
Back in 1996, Ruben Santiago-Hudson won a Tony Award for his performance in this August Wilson play revolving around a 1940s blues musician. Now he is directing a revival with an ace cast that includes Russell Hornsby, Kristolyn Lloyd, Roslyn Ruff and John Douglas Thompson. (Nov. 5-Jan. 10, Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater)
‘The Good Thief’
Beloved for his comic touch in shows like “Waitress” and “Finian’s Rainbow,” Christopher Fitzgerald switches to a very different register to play a Dublin enforcer in this Conor McPherson monologue. (Nov. 7-Dec. 13, Irish Repertory Theater)
‘The Exhibitionist’
Jeff Hiller may have won an Emmy Award last year (for the HBO series “Somebody Somewhere”), but theatergoers have long known him as a sui generis — and reliably funny — performer. He’s back playing an artist in a limited run of James Hindman’s solo play. (Nov. 9-21, SoHo Playhouse)
‘Elektra’
Anne Carson, the recent recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature, provided a new translation of the Sophocles tragedy in which Elektra (the fierce Tina Benko) is hellbent on avenging her murdered father. Daniel Fish (“Kramer/Fauci”) directs. (Nov. 10-Dec. 6, Theater for a New Audience)
La MaMa Puppet Festival
Promising fare this year includes shows about the real-life disappearance of the musician Connie Converse (“Where Did You Go, Connie?”) and a collaboration with members of the contemporary-classical ensemble Eighth Blackbird (“Mirrored Pool”). (Nov. 11-Dec. 6, La MaMa)
‘A Kidman Carol’
Marla Mindelle (“Titanique”) and Josh Sharp (“ta-da!”) portray Nicole Kidman and Cate Blanchett in this Hollywood diva spin on the Dickens tale. The supporting cast includes the distinctive comedian-performer Richard Perez. (Nov. 16-Dec. 30, New World Stages)
‘A Christmas Carol’
Jack Thorne and Matthew Warchus’s much more traditional take on the Dickens classic returns, this time with Andy Karl (“Groundhog Day”) as Ebenezer Scrooge. (Nov. 20-Jan. 3, Perelman Performing Arts Center)
‘Imitation of Life’
John Legend (score) and Lynn Nottage (book) have adapted the Fannie Hurst novel from 1933, about race, identity and motherhood. Co-produced by the National Black Theater, the show stars Adrienne Warren and Jessica Vosk as women with intertwined destinies. (Nov. 21-Jan. 3, the Shed)
‘The Conversation’
Joshua Henry (a recent Tony Award winner for “Ragtime”) and Julia Harriman wrote the score for and star in this new musical, which looks at a relationship’s up and downs. Kenny Leon directs. (Nov. 17-Jan. 10, Astor Place Theater)
‘La Distance’
Two years after “Catarina and the Beauty of Killing Fascists” drew both boos and applause, the Portuguese theatermaker Tiago Rodrigues explores the end of Earth and interplanetary relocation in 2077. (Nov. 18-29, Brooklyn Academy of Music)
‘Other Bodies’
The writer-performer Martin Moran concludes an autobiographical solo trilogy after “The Tricky Part” (2004) and “All the Rage” (2013). Of “Rage,” The New York Times wrote that “there are times when a precisely rendered moment seems to open a window onto a hauntingly expansive view.” Seth Barrish is in the director’s chair again. (Nov. 19-Dec. 20, the Barrow Group)
‘The Dead, 1904’
In Ciarán O’Reilly’s immersive staging of the James Joyce story (adapted by Paul Muldoon and Jean Hanff Korelitz), theatergoers and cast members, including Judy Kaye and Mary Beth Peil, share a yarn and a holiday meal in an Upper East Side mansion. (Nov. 21-Jan. 3, American Irish Historical Society)
‘Bigfoot Ripped My Dog in Half I Saw It’
After a buzzy run at Ars Nova earlier this year with “And Then the Rodeo Burned Down,” the physical-theater pair Xhloe and Natasha deliver a show about Appalachian teenagers who stage Bigfoot sightings. (Nov. 23-Jan. 3, SoHo Playhouse)
‘Wild Rose’
A Glaswegian mom (Madeline Brewer, from “The Handmaid’s Tale”) follows her dream to become a country music singer in Nicole Taylor’s jukebox musical (based on the movie of the same name) featuring tunes by the likes of Brandi Carlile and the Chicks. John Tiffany directs. (Nov. 24-Jan. 10, New York Theater Workshop)
‘The Jinkx and DeLa Holiday Show’
No reheated leftovers for these two divas: Every year Jinkx Monsoon and BenDeLaCreme cook up a new holiday extravaganza. This is one of the funniest shows you can see this time of year. Or any time of year, frankly. (Nov. 25 and 27, New York City Center)
‘A View From the Bridge’
Sam Rockwell takes on Arthur Miller’s tragic longshoreman Eddie Carbone in this hot-ticket revival directed by Neil Pepe. Carla Gugino plays Eddie’s wife, Beatrice, and Alfred Molina is the lawyer Alfieri. (Nov. 27-Feb. 27, La MaMa)
‘Spring Awakening’
The kids are not all right and they’re singing about it: Duncan Sheik and Steven Sater’s musical, set in 1891 about young Germans in sexual turmoil, is back in a revival directed by Danya Taymor. She’s become the go-to director when teenage characters are involved, with such hits as “The Outsiders” and “John Proctor Is the Villain.” (Nov. 27-April 4, Studio Seaview)
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