The Young Vic’s freewheeling adaptation starring Billie Piper updates the story to contemporary London. Yerma is now called Her, which is the least of Her problems
Sometimes movie stars make the segue to Broadway in high style
Marianne Elliott puts the fantasy front and center in her National Theatre staging of Tony Kushner’s marathon drama
Patti Murin and Jelani Alladin occasionally unthaw a rather frigid show
A new musical takes its cue from Buffett’s odes to gluttony “Cheeseburger in Paradise” and “Why Don’t We Get Drunk (and Screw)?”
In Harmon’s insightful new comedy, it’s the parents who may never recover from their child’s rejection
Various troubled souls stumbled into a mental health clinic in David Rabe’s purely cornball new drama
The playwright delivers an uproarious indictment of power, privilege and totally deregulated capitalism
In Martyna Majok’s new play, poor women from around the world encounter a war zone in a shared basement living space in Queens, N.Y.
Lindsey Ferrentino’s new play recalls ’60s-era Neil Simon comedies — but she has a dramatic bomb up her sleeve
The “Marjorie Prime” playwright explodes the fourth wall in a wild, new look back at Noah and the ark
Chaudry’s riveting portrait of a Pakistani-Brit vividly recalls some of the angry young men of 1950s British theater: He’s railing against everything and everyone, including himself
The musical never makes us feel complicit with the Springer TV audience. The talk-show host’s low-life, stupid, morbidly obese guests are there on stage simply to be mocked
Sarah Burgess’ dialogue is often scintillating, and would be even more arresting if any of the characters budged from his or her original position
After 233 legal murders, a retired executioner finds cause to return to what he does best in McDonagh’s new comedy
Nijinsky and Diaghilev meet again, but produce more hot air than anything resembling real dramatic fire
Greg Pierce’s new play leaves Chlumsky comically stranded, and she compensates by being flustered. Who wouldn’t be?
Six teachers aren’t so much politically correct as they are socially correct. Pity their students
Enda Walsh reinvents Samuel Beckett. But the play’s best moments come from his direction, not his writing
TheWrap Best & Worst 2017: Several young playwrights, from Annie Baker to Steven Levenson, help to revitalize the stage
TheWrap Best & Worst 2017: Plus, David Mamet and John Patrick Shanley continue to plummet
The actor puts his full arsenal of mannerisms on display to prevent countertenor Iestyn Davies from stealing the show
Lucy Kirkwood has written a Big Issue play that recalls Martin McDonagh and Rod Serling, but goes to a much scarier place
A play about totalitarianism and thought control could be painfully dreary in a Soviet sort of way. Rajiv Joseph’s flair for grand soap opera makes his three-hour play anything but
New show takes a less literal approach to its animated source material than “Shrek” or other recent family musicals
What this put-upon heroine really needs is a someone named Gloria Allred
Sevigny’s portrayal of an often outrageous mother slaps an otherwise flaccid drama into shape
“House of Cards” creator Beau Willimon updates his 2013 play to the era of Trump. And once again, Trump overshadows everything else
Schumer and Martin are not a match made in the heavens
With his very erotic new thriller, David Cale adds sex where the author of “The Talented Mr. Ripley” put murder
