Public Theater

A new production at the Public Theater takes up five hours of stage time to tell the story of a group of friends from their first day to graduation.

By Elisabeth Vincentelli

The characters in Else Went’s quiet Off Broadway debut at the Public Theater try to make sense of the world while coming-of-age in the early aughts.

By Douglas Corzine

Ruthie Ann Miles, Shuler Hensley and Micaela Diamond lead a dream-team cast in Ethan Lipton’s musical adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s “The Skin of Our Teeth.”

By Laura Collins-Hughes

The Public Theater will present the play, which Martyna Majok adapted from the best-selling memoir.

By Michael Paulson

Ari’el Stachel’s “Other” and Zoë Kim’s “Did You Eat?” are self-interrogations that deal with family, race and identity.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

An urgent family mission propels Jordan E. Cooper’s pain-spiked supernatural comedy, a very loose riff on the biblical story of Noah.

By Laura Collins-Hughes

Long the leading Asian American playwright, he was writing autofictional works about identity politics decades before those were cultural obsessions.

By Mark Harris

The actor fits in tennis with his son, a writing session and lots of dancing before performing his new show at the Public Theater.

By Sarah Bahr Photographs and video by Christian Rodriguez

For the first play he’s written, the actor stars as a striving Colombian American patriarch in the mold of Willy Loman or Walter Younger.

By Juan A. Ramírez

Richard Nelson returns to the Public Theater with “When the Hurlyburly’s Done,” which he presented last winter in Kyiv. Here, he reflects on the experience with excerpts from his diary.

By Richard Nelson