{"id":519852,"date":"2026-01-16T07:43:17","date_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:43:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519852\/"},"modified":"2026-01-16T07:43:17","modified_gmt":"2026-01-16T07:43:17","slug":"5-shows-to-see-in-new-york-this-month-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/519852\/","title":{"rendered":"5 Shows to See in New York This Month"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A scene from the original production of What to wear.
(\u00a9 CalArts)<\/p>\n

1. What to wear<\/a>
<\/strong>What to wear<\/a> is a collaboration between composer Michael Gordon and the late downtown auteur Richard Foreman, whose geometric scenic design, lightbulbs clusters, and alien-like performers comprise one of the most singular and instantly recognizable directorial styles of the 20th century. I never pass up an opportunity to see one of his shows, so I cannot wait to see the New York premiere of this opera that was originally produced for the CalArts Center for New Performance 2006 (you can see a clip from that production here<\/a>). Annie-B Parson and Paul Lazar of Big Dance Theater have lovingly recreated the production for BAM, where it will run just this weekend, with singer-songwriter St. Vincent in the cast!<\/p>\n

\"KramerWill Brill, Larry Kramer, Thomas Jay Ryan, and Anthony Fauci.
(\u00a9 Tricia Baron\/David Gordon\/Christopher Michel)<\/p>\n

2. Kramer\/Fauci<\/a>
<\/strong>Daniel Fish\u2019s Kramer\/Fauci<\/a>, which opens next month at NYU Skirball, will also have a short run (just two weeks) so you\u2019ll want to mark your calendar. Tony winner Will Brill (Stereophonic) plays Dr. Anthony Fauci, Thomas Jay Ryan plays dramatist and activist Larry Kramer in this recreation of a 1993 televised debate between the two over AIDS policy. It promises to be a bracing reminder of Fauci\u2019s polarizing reputation as a scientist and bureaucrat, long before Covid and Trump scrambled our national politics. Fish, who helmed the last Broadway revival of Oklahoma!<\/a>, has a special talent for making us look harder at the things that were always right there, hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n

\"THEMiriam Silverman, Dylan Baker, and Hamish Linklater star in Erica Schmidt\u2019s The Disappear at Audible\u2019s Minetta Lane Theatre.
(\u00a9 Jeremy Daniel)<\/p>\n

3. The Disappear<\/a>
<\/strong>Of course, it\u2019s often hard to see the obvious when your lifestyle depends on politely ignoring it. That\u2019s one of the takeaways from Erica Schmidt\u2019s The Disappear<\/a>. Hamish Linklater and Miriam Silverman stars as a cultural power couple. He\u2019s a moderately successful director, and she\u2019s a bestselling author. They have a teenage daughter and live in a gorgeously rustic home upstate. They would seem to have everything, but dad wants more\u2014specifically a passionate affair with an actress he wants in his next film. Hilarious, painfully recognizable performances undergird this comedy about the violent collision of consumer expectation and the ancient institution of marriage. Take your spouse! You\u2019ll have plenty to discuss on the ride home.<\/p>\n

\"\"Carrie Coon and Namir Smallwood star in Tracey Letts\u2019s Bug, directed by David Cromer, for MTC at the Samuel J. Friedman Theatre.
(\u00a9 Matthew Murphy)<\/p>\n

4. Bug<\/a>
<\/strong>The same goes for Tracy Letts\u2019s Bug<\/a>, which is also somewhat about marriage. It premiered in 1996, but in its excellent Broadway debut with MTC, it feels like it could have been written last year. Carrie Coon stars as Agnes, a woman living in a motel outside Oklahoma City, hiding out from her violent ex-husband (Steve Key). When a military veteran (Namir Smallwood) enters her life, both become convinced that the insect problem in their room is the product of a dark conspiracy. Are these delusions born out of trauma? Does obsession naturally create its own evidence? Or is it just the drugs talking? We could ask all these questions about American society in 2026 and Letts does in this must-see play\u2014the only new drama on Broadway this winter.<\/p>\n

\"\"Annabelle Zasowski, Doireann Mac Mahon, Harrison Tipping, and Daniel Marconi in Irish Repertory Theatre\u2019s 2025 production of The Honey Trap, written by Leo McGann and directed by Matt Torney.
(\u00a9 Carol Rosegg)<\/p>\n

5. The Honey Trap<\/a>
<\/strong>Finally, I want to alert you to one of the best plays I saw last year, which is now enjoying an encore engagement at the Irish Rep. Leo McGann\u2019s The Honey Trap<\/a> is about two British soldiers stationed in Belfast circa 1979. One night, they go out to a pub and meet a couple of pretty Irish girls. Only one of them makes it back to the barracks alive. Told from the perspective of today, and an American college student collecting an oral history of the Troubles, the play probes the messy border between the truth and your truth, the convenient narrative one adopts to sleep soundly at night. The performances are riveting as McGann and director Matt Torney have us questioning everything we see right up until the final moment. It\u2019s a masterpiece.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A scene from the original production of What to wear.(\u00a9 CalArts) 1. What to wearWhat to wear is…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":519853,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5122],"tags":[5229,405,403,5226,5225,5228,5227,67,586,132,5230,68,2969],"class_list":{"0":"post-519852","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-new-york","8":"tag-america","9":"tag-new-york","10":"tag-new-york-city","11":"tag-newyork","12":"tag-newyorkcity","13":"tag-ny","14":"tag-nyc","15":"tag-united-states","16":"tag-united-states-of-america","17":"tag-unitedstates","18":"tag-unitedstatesofamerica","19":"tag-us","20":"tag-usa"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115903660646650975","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=519852"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/519852\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/519853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=519852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=519852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=519852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}