A pair of new productions—a Broadway play starring Laurie Metcalf and a revived classic off-Broadway from the Irish company Druid—reveal surprising affinities between the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Samuel Beckett.

Bess Wohl’s digressive drama toggles between the 1970s and today in tracking the women’s liberation movement.

With Aubrey Plaza and Mary McCann among the cast, the filmmaker’s trio of insubstantial short plays at the Atlantic Theater Company offers an acidic view of romance.

A sterling cast makes the most of a marvelous score in Lincoln Center Theater’s admirably trenchant revival of this complex musical, set at the turn of the 20th century.

The National Theatre’s first season under Indhu Rubasingham has begun with unconventional takes on Euripides and Shakespeare, while on the West End, Stephen Fry is delivering barbs in resplendent style in ‘The Importance of Being Earnest’ and a musical adaptation of ‘The Curious Case of Benjamin Button’ proved rewardingly small-scaled.

The Andrew Lloyd Webber musical returns in Diane Paulus’s immersive production—fancy attire and masquerade masks required.

In this bruisingly powerful production, James Graham adapts the memoir of a man who accidentally killed another in a drunken brawl—and was later approached with compassion by his victim’s mother.

The ‘Bill & Ted’ stars lead a surprising, tender revival of Beckett’s absurdist masterpiece, directed by Jamie Lloyd.

With echoes of Arthur Miller, the actor and playwright’s new work at the Public Theater follows the struggling patriarch of a Latin-American family in Queens.

The former late-night host gives a standout performance next to Neil Patrick Harris and Bobby Cannavale in a funny and finely acted revival of Yasmina Reza’s play about one man’s purchase of a very expensive painting.

Simon Godwin directs the playwright’s potent drama of family scandal in a rare revival at Theatre for a New Audience.

André Holland and Alani iLongwe star in a fiery off-Broadway revival of Tarell Alvin McCraney’s drama about two brothers’ tangled relationship.

Highlights of this year’s Canadian theater festival include a motorcycle-centric ‘Macbeth,’ a more traditional staging of ‘The Winter’s Tale,’ and an energetic revival of Charles Strouse’s classic musical.

The prolific insult comic softens his image—but only slightly—in this bitingly funny, autobiographical solo show, in which many of the jokes come at his own expense.

This summer’s Shakespeare in the Park production is a raucous, unconventional and rewardingly funny outing led by Lupita Nyong’o, Sandra Oh, Peter Dinklage and Jesse Tyler Ferguson.

Actor Bubba Weiler makes a remarkable playwriting debut with a production starring Quincy Tyler Bernstine as a woman whose husband dies under strange circumstances.

The ‘Downton Abbey’ actress both wrote this off-Broadway play and cast herself against type as Ava Gardner, re-creating that Hollywood performer’s late-in-life meetings with journalist Peter Evans.

This play by Cary Gitter at 59E59 Theaters explores the marriage of comic actors Gene Wilder and Gilda Radner, which tragically ended with her death from cancer at age 42.

The comedian’s one-man stage memoir, directed by Sam Pinkleton, is the most fun you’ll ever have at a slide show.

In the Irish Repertory Theatre’s fourth staging of the playwright’s spellbinding work, a group of men in a pub exchange ghost stories with a female newcomer who shares their fascination, unease and loneliness.