Theatre to watch in New York

FT critics review the latest shows on Broadway and beyond
Strange Window — a clever, topical riff on Henry James at BAM Harvey Theater, New York

James Gibbs updates The Turn of the Screw for the digital age

Clueless, The Musical is just as enjoyable as the film

A faithful stage adaptation at the Pershing Square Signature Center, New York

Fabulation, or the Re-education of Undine — a mordantly funny drama

A PR woman experiences a blitz of misfortune in Lynn Nottage’s play at the Pershing Square Signature Center, New York

Slave Play — a raunchy exploration of interracial relationships at the New York Theatre Workshop

Jeremy O. Harris’s new play explores murky psychological territory

Bryan Cranston is on barnstorming form in Network on Broadway

Ivo van Hove’s compulsively watchable adaptation of the prophetic 1976 movie comes to the Belasco Theatre

The White Album — a lively adaptation of Joan Didion’s essay at BAM Harvey Theater, New York

The writer’s reflections on the 1960s come to life on stage

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Tom Stoppard is out of his depth with The Hard Problem

Thin characters skim over a perennial conundrum at New York’s Lincoln Center Theater

Thom Pain (based on nothing), Signature Theatre, New York — fun with solipsism

Michael C Hall brings a devilish charisma to bear as he delivers Will Eno’s darkly whimsical monologue

The New One — a tale of woe and neurosis at the Cort Theatre, New York

Mike Birbiglia explores fatherhood in his new one-man show

The burden of racism hangs heavy over Eve’s Song at the Public Theater, New York

Patricia Ione Lloyd’s new play has an ever-present sense of unease

Fire in Dreamland, Public Theater, New York — a dramatic flame that fizzles out

Rinne Groff’s new play is centred around a 1911 amusement park blaze

Carey Mulligan gets gritty in Girls & Boys at Minetta Lane Theatre, New York

The star exudes self-deprecating charm in Dennis Kelly’s sharply observed one-woman play about modern romance

Cyprus Avenue, Public Theater, New York — pitch-black satire

David Ireland’s play explores sectarian hatred in contemporary Northern Ireland

Skintight, Laura Pels Theatre, New York — bracingly cynical

Vanity and hypocrisy are exposed in Joshua Harmon’s new black comedy

Othello, Central Park, New York — a shift of focus from race to gender

This open-air Shakespeare is uneven, but the performances suggest a bold re-reading

Everyone’s Fine with Virginia Woolf, Abrons Arts Center, New York — consistently hilarious

The cast navigates playwright Kate Scelsa’s zany twist on Edward Albee with deadpan flair

The Boys in the Band, New York — Jim Parsons and Zachary Quinto get nasty

A birthday party full of gay men descends into cruel jibing in this tightly wound staging of Mart Crowley’s play at the Booth Theatre

The Iceman Cometh, Bernard B Jacobs Theatre, New York — played by the book

Starring Denzel Washington and Colm Meaney, this is a production that needs to take more risks

Harry Potter comes to Broadway in a thoroughly rewarding production

Harry Potter and the Cursed Child at the Lyric Theatre delivers theatrical thrills — and a touching tale of adolescence and fatherhood

Carousel, Imperial Theatre, New York — going round in circles

Renée Fleming provides emotional subtlety but sounds a little underpowered in Jack O’Brien’s old-fashioned staging

Mean Girls, August Wilson Theatre, New York — a deficit of nastiness

Tina Fey has toned down the material in her musical adaptation of the teen comedy