The Room Where It Happens
By Michael Schulman
“Encores!” revives “1776,” a 1969 musical in which the Founding Fathers sing—but don’t rap.
My Old Sweetheart
By Hilton Als
The play “Blackbird,” starring Jeff Daniels and Michelle Williams, shows the damage caused by a man’s affair with a twelve-year-old girl.
New Direction
By Hilton Als
His singular vision finds new emotional realness in standard works. This month he directs “The Effect,” at the Barrow Street Theatre.
Betrothed
By Hilton Als
Danai Gurira’s fantastically well-realized “Familiar” explores an immigrant experience that is seldom portrayed.
Blanche in Brooklyn
By Michael Schulman
The new season includes Gillian Anderson in “A Streetcar Named Desire” and Jessica Lange and Gabriel Byrne in “Long Day’s Journey Into Night.”
The Night Crawlers
By Hilton Als
His last one-act play, “Hughie,” shows how you can be held captive by the guilt you feel at being alive.
Poetry in Motion
By Hilton Als
The Civilians, a Brooklyn-based theatre collective, adapts the poet’s translations of the French renegade’s work.
Bookworms
By Hilton Als
An adaptation of the epic novel “2666” asks, How much can we know about any life, beyond its metaphors—its myths, its storytelling, its lies?
Dirty Rotten Scoundrel
By Hilton Als
This musical, based on a short novel by Eudora Welty and directed by Alex Timbers, doesn’t shy away from depicting the shadowy areas of life.
This Week
Lauren Worsham takes a break from singing with the Philharmonic to perform with her husband, Kyle Jarrow, in an impish rock musical.