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Lehman Brothers, a Family Saga, as Viewed by Some Who Lived It

“The Lehman Trilogy” is a theatrical panorama of the firm’s history and collapse. Lehman descendants and onetime employees have taken a keen interest.

 

Review: Adam Driver Heats Up a Wobbly ‘Burn This’

In this imbalanced revival of Lanford Wilson’s play, also starring Keri Russell, Mr. Driver unleashes the full, scorching power of his talent.

 

Review: In ‘Socrates,’ a Brainy Tribute to a Prickly Provocateur

Michael Stuhlbarg is sublime in the title role of Tim Blake Nelson’s admiring but overlong play, presented as part of the Onassis Festival.

 

Playwrights Horizons Announces New Season

Michael Friedman’s “Unknown Soldier” will be staged in the 2019-20 season, along with plays by Jeremy O. Harris and Lucas Hnath.

 

A Dark ‘Oklahoma!’ Brings Barefoot Modern Dance to Broadway

The choreographer John Heginbotham and the director Daniel Fish want the dance to “change the way we experience the show.”

 

Review: In ‘17 Border Crossings,’ Some Areas Are Left Unexplored

Thaddeus Phillips’s genial show retreats every time things get sticky or uncomfortable.

 

Georgia Engel, Gentle-Voiced ‘Mary Tyler Moore’ Actress, Is Dead at 70

After gaining fame as the blustery newsman Ted Baxter’s love interest, Ms. Engel went on to “Everybody Loves Raymond” and more.

 

Critic’s Notebook: Toxic Men Get All the Attention. But Not in These Plays.

The perspectives of women are welcome in an art form that inherently fosters empathy — and in which it matters greatly whom we’re asked to feel for.

 

Rattlestick Theater Festival to Commemorate Stonewall Anniversary

The Pride Plays festival will feature more than a dozen readings from plays by seminal L.G.B.T. writers, as well as by newcomers.

 

Review: The Women of ‘Plano’ Are All About Men

In this comedy by Will Arbery, three sisters slip-slide through time in a brightly heightened reality.

 

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