Review: ‘A View From the Bridge’ Bears Witness to the Pain of Fate
By BEN BRANTLEY
From its opening scene, Ivo van Hove’s revival of Arthur Miller’s play evokes an acute sense of dread and a relentless aura of grim predestination.
A scene from the musical “On Your Feet!,” the new Broadway musical about Gloria and Emilio Estefan.
The issue is sharply divisive in the presidential campaign. But it’s being celebrated on the nation’s most prestigious stages.
From its opening scene, Ivo van Hove’s revival of Arthur Miller’s play evokes an acute sense of dread and a relentless aura of grim predestination.
Peter Story performs in his one-man show about man-woman relationships, adapted from the book by John Gray.
The play by Marguerite Duras, involving a grandmother and granddaughter, is being presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Fishman Space.
On Monday, Disney will start an online lottery offering tickets to “The Lion King” for $30.
Both Lin-Manuel Miranda and Leslie Odom, Jr., of “Hamilton” will be eligible for the prize as best actor in a musical.
Patti LuPone and Christine Ebersole, will portray competing cosmetics industry executives in a new musical, “War Paint,” scheduled to premiere in Chicago next summer.
“The Diary of Anne Frank” reminds us that the Franks weren’t just hallowed historical names but something far more complex: human beings.
Directed by Phyllida Lloyd and starring Harriet Walter, this production of two condensed Shakespeare plays reveals the desperation behind the bravado.
This interactive comedy-mystery opens in New York, following its decades-long run in Boston.
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Recommended shows from Ben Brantley, Charles Isherwood and other theater critics for The New York Times.
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Top-grossing Broadway shows for the week ending Nov. 8.
Randy Graff, Cady Huffman and Judy Kaye, three alumnae of Coleman shows, perform an affectionate tribute, directed by Will Nunziata, at Feinstein’s/54 Below.
Ms. Burns, who plays Gloria Estefan’s mother in “On Your Feet,” is an entertainer at ease in the place where Broadway tradition merges with Latin American pop.
“Lord of the Dance: Dangerous Games” is your last chance to watch Mr. Flatley dancing. And with him, you’ll get flames, fog-banks and explosions.
Caroline V. McGraw’s dark comedy is set in a former fraternity house whose denizens work for a living but otherwise behave in disconcerting ways.
Members of a school choir meet their deaths on a roller coaster and must compete for redemption in this musical at the Chicago Shakespeare Theater.
This play is adapted from “The Mysterious Affair at Styles,” Agatha Christie’s first Hercule Poirot novel.
As in the word game, the audience is asked to help fill in the blanks — a license to go a little lowbrow — in this show at New World Stages.
In Peter Parnell’s new play at Lincoln Center, gay couples with children learn about having (or not having) it all.
The playwright John Pollono is a deft practitioner of the sort of twist-in-the-tale narratives that are mostly associated with O. Henry and W. Somerset Maugham.
An long-ailing woman who would like to die has a proposal for her nurse in Chisa Hutchinson’s play, at the National Black Theater.
This Broadway musical with George Takei and Lea Salonga sets out to illuminate a dark passage in American history.
Many of these shows are currently in previews.
The coming theater season will look forward to a possible future king and look back to some of Arthur Miller’s works.
