Theater

Plenty of plays, from “Hamlet” to “Hamilton,” feature a restless title character itching for action. But “The Perplexed,” which opened on Tuesday at New York City Center Stage I, has...

At the very beginning of the new play “Coal Country,” we are told it is “a West Virginia story about 29 men and a big machine.” This is an understated...

The Jamie Lloyd Company’s West End revival of “Cyrano de Bergerac” is coming to the Harvey Theater of the Brooklyn Academy of Music for a limited run in May. Directed...

Even the word sounds spellbinding: “Incantata” is Italian for “enchantment.” Leave it to the Pulitzer Prize-winning Irish poet Paul Muldoon, in his poem-turned-play of that name, to use all the...

“Designing Women” is under renovation. Linda Bloodworth-Thomason, the creator of that 1980s and ’90s sitcom about the employees of an Atlanta design firm, has reimagined the show as a stage...

Lucy Prebble — the British playwright and writer for TV series including “Succession” — won the Susan Smith Blackburn Prize on Monday for “A Very Expensive Poison,” an acclaimed play...

One morning in January, Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick found themselves together on the Upper East Side, close to a luncheonette they used to love, with an hour to...

Some shows play things close to the vest as long as they can, and reveal their intentions progressively. “Tumacho” is not one of them. Ethan Lipton’s delirious play with music...

The final sound cue for “The Perplexed,” Richard Greenberg’s new comedy about two estranged, wealthy families brought together by their children’s impending nuptials, is offstage laughter. Heralding the arrival of...

Place six, highly individual and equally quarrelsome men in a small kitchen, and it’s inevitable that they’re going to make a mess, literal and otherwise. Yet while Katori Hall’s “The...