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Mr. Birbiglia’s solo show about becoming a father is at first excruciatingly funny and then just kind of excruciating.

Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning play about working class anxieties will be performed in 18 counties in the lead-up to the election.

Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.

It’s an event more associated with classical music, but drama is in its D.N.A. Two productions of German-language classics at the festival show differing approaches.

Four gay men who recently attended the Broadway revival of this 50-year-old play — three seeing it for the first time — debate its significance and relevance.

A play based on a confessional, self-obsessed woman’s memoir — from the 15th century — is back, at the Duke.

It has taken a while, but playing the sultry title role in “Carmen Jones” fulfills a lifelong dream.

Some performance spaces in New York are reminding viewers that the work they see is being performed on Indigenous land.

August turns out to be a month for musicals, with science fiction, a Hollywood rom-com and dueling garage bands on the agenda.

This radiant Public Works production of Shakespeare’s comedy of identity asks us “to see through the eyes of another.”