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What’s New in NYC Theater

Laura Linney, left, as Regina and Cynthia Nixon as Birdie in a revival of Lillian Hellman’s “The Little Foxes.”Credit...Sara Krulwich/The New York Times

Our guide to plays and musicals coming to New York stages — and a few last-chance picks of shows that are about to close. Our reviews of open shows are at nytimes.com/reviews/theater.

ICE FACTORY 2017 at New Ohio Theater (performances start on June 28). An American astronaut, a Cameroonian girls’ soccer team and an Afghan family crowd the New Ohio at this annual celebration of downtown experimentation and eccentricity. Scheduled productions include a dark, romantic farce and a riff on Sam Shepard’s “True West,” inspired by former Gov. Jeb Bush of Florida and former President George W. Bush, and performed by two actresses of color.
866-811-4111, newohiotheatre.org

‘MARVIN’S ROOM’ at the American Airlines Theater (in previews; opens on June 29). Whip smart and ultracool, Janeane Garofalo and Lili Taylor made an indelible mark on 1990s film. Now they’re appearing in Roundabout’s revival of this Scott McPherson comedy about death and dying, life and living, which Frank Rich, reviewing a production for The New York Times in 1991, described as “one of the funniest plays of this year as well as one of the wisest and most moving.”
212-719-1300, roundabouttheatre.org

‘MEASURE FOR MEASURE’ at Polonsky Shakespeare Center (in previews; opens on June 25). To think that it used to be a shock that a man in authority might abuse his position for corrupt ends. Directed by Simon Godwin for Theater for a New Audience, this problem play stars Jonathan Cake, Cara Ricketts and Thomas Jay Ryan in Shakespeare’s vision of an immoral Vienna.
866-811-4111, tfana.org

‘NAPOLI, BROOKLYN’ at the Laura Pels Theater at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theater (in previews; opens on June 27). The Park Slope of 1960 — when twin strollers were scarce and Brooklyn wasn’t yet something to celebrate — is the setting for this new play by Meghan Kennedy (“Too Much, Too Much, Too Many”). Under Gordon Edelstein’s direction, two immigrant families scrabble for a piece of the American dream.
212-719-1300, roundabouttheatre.org

‘DERREN BROWN: SECRET’ at the Linda Gross Theater (closes on June 25). Your synapses will be safe again when the British mentalist Derren Brown hangs up his tailcoat and blindfold. Ben Brantley called Mr. Brown’s disquisition on perception, which includes several mind-reading routines, “enthrallingly baffling.”
866-811-4111, atlantictheater.org

‘THE GOVERNMENT INSPECTOR’ at the Duke on 42nd Street (closes on June 24). “The Government Inspector,” an adaptation of Nikolai Gogol’s ageless comedy of small-town venality, earns its final guffaws before re-emerging at New World Stages in July. Ben Brantley described this badly behaved Red Bull show as “delicious” and “rollicking,” calling its star, Michael Urie, a “path-clearing cyclone of silliness.”
646-223-3010, dukeon42.org

INDECENT’ at the Cort Theater (closes on June 25). Paula Vogel’s play, which Ben Brantley described as a “heartfelt ode and elegy to a landmark of modern drama,” finishes its Broadway run, having won a Tony for its director, Rebecca Taichman. An exploration of “God of Vengeance,” a Yiddish drama that became the subject of an obscenity trial, the play speaks feelingly to ideas of culture, censorship and freedom.
212-239-6200, indecentbroadway.com

‘KILL MOVE PARADISE’ at National Black Theater (closes on June 25). James Ijames’s exploration of an African-American afterlife proceeds toward its just reward. Ben Brantley described this tone poem, directed by Saheem Ali, about four men who meet one another after death, as “a singularly affecting contribution” to the genre of post-mortem theater.
866-811-4111, nationalblacktheatre.org

‘THE LITTLE FOXES’ at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater (closes on July 2). Daniel Sullivan’s nimble and exhilarating revival of this Lillian Hellman melodrama about an appetitive Southern family will finish its run. Laura Linney and Cynthia Nixon trade off the lead female roles, playing the ambitious Regina and her diffident sister-in-law, Birdie. (Ms. Nixon won a Tony for her portrayal of Birdie.) Which configuration should you see? With actresses of this caliber, see it twice.
212-239-6200, littlefoxesbroadway.com

‘MASTER’ at Irondale Center (closes on June 24). W. David Hancock’s experimental inverse of “Adventures of Huckleberry Finn” finishes its run. Jesse Green described this Foundry Theater-produced work as “an intimate-immersive-multimedia-performance art exhibition and play,” with a “disturbing and powerful” conclusion.
866-811-4111, thefoundrytheatre.org

‘PRESENT LAUGHTER’ at the St. James Theater (closes on July 2). Kevin Kline can step out of the silk dressing gowns as Moritz von Stuelpnagel’s revival of this Noël Coward comedy finishes its run. Mr. Kline won a Tony for what Ben Brantley called his “witty athleticism and derring-do” as Garry Essendine, a matinee idol exhausted by idolatry.
877-250-2929, laughteronbroadway.com

‘SUNSET BOULEVARD’ at the Palace Theater (closes on June 25). Norma Desmond will pose for her final close-up when the revival of this Andrew Lloyd Webber musical, based on the Billy Wilder film, finishes its run. Ben Brantley described Glenn Close’s star turn — a return to the part for Ms. Close after 22 years — as “one of the great stage performances of this century.”
877-250-2929, sunsetboulevardthemusical.com

‘SWEAT’ at Studio 54 (closes on June 25). Lynn Nottage’s Pulitzer Prize-winning drama about the struggling inhabitants of a foundering town finishes its run. Ben Brantley described this play, set in and around a casual tavern, as the “first work from a major American playwright to summon, with empathy and without judgment, the nationwide anxiety that helped put Donald J. Trump in the White House.”
212-239-6200, sweatbroadway.com

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