In Robert Icke’s “Player Kings,” an adaptation of Shakespeare’s history plays, Ian McKellen has an especially juicy assignment. nyti.ms/4cRmpcz

The musical version of the classic coming-of-age novel “The Outsiders” has been made with so much love and sincerity it survives with most of its heart intact. nyti.ms/3xFM080

Commercial Off Broadway, a long-dormant sector of the city’s theater economy, is having a banner season thanks to shows like “Oh, Mary!” and “Job.” But can it last? nyti.ms/3PZwjPw

“The Heart of Rock and Roll,” a Broadway show built around the songs of Huey Lewis and the News, has given the singer a reason to “get out of bed.” nyti.ms/3U9sud2

Trevor Griffiths, a prolific and avowedly Marxist writer for stage and screen most widely known for his London and Broadway play “Comedians,” has died at 88. nyti.ms/3TSrSqX

As Shaina Taub’s “Suffs” arrives on Broadway, the show’s team members, including one of its producers, Hillary Clinton, say they’re ready to give the women’s suffrage movement a bigger platform. nyti.ms/3Ja8ikV

Bernadette Peters and Lea Salonga will star in Sondheim’s “Old Friends” in Manhattan Theater Club’s Broadway season, which also includes “Eureka Day.” nyti.ms/3PSY9wQ

In making us laugh and then demanding a retraction, Christopher Durang became an absurdist Neil Simon for a post-great generation, our critic writes. nyti.ms/3U6oLNg

Audiences are flocking to theaters to see Jeremy Strong, Sarah Snook and other “Succession” alums onstage. nyti.ms/3PQhKxr

Howard Atlee, who promoted Edward Albee and other theatrical clients and also bred championship dogs, has died at 97. nyti.ms/4aEYmLZ

The playwright Christopher Durang's gift, one critic said, was a “special knack for wrapping life’s horrors in the primary colors of absurdist comedy.” He has died at 75. nyti.ms/49seFup

In “Tuesdays With Morrie,” the Tony-winner Len Cariou was eager to tackle “a rich role in a show that asks, ‘What if despair and death are not the end?’” nyti.ms/4alEeP6

In making us laugh and then demanding a retraction, Christopher Durang became an absurdist Neil Simon for a post-great generation, our critic writes. nyti.ms/4avpJYS

Christopher Durang, a Tony Award-winning playwright and a master satirist known for plays like “Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for You,” has died at 75. nyti.ms/3xmyqqa

Two Paris playhouses, both alike in dignity, are putting on rival new Shakespeare productions. nyti.ms/3TMsLRE

Undervalued for most of her career, the artist Tamara de Lempicka is bursting through the canvas and onto the Broadway stage in a musical that bears her name, with Eden Espinosa in the starring role. nyti.ms/3U0cSIw

Jesús I. Valles’s prizewinning play “Bathhouse.pptx” gets a stage at the Flea, but the ambitious work about queer history proves too difficult to wrangle. nyti.ms/4aeVwxx

The new Broadway revival of “The Who’s Tommy” is big on musical and visual effects, living up to the rock part of “rock opera.” Too bad it buries the human part, our critic writes. nyti.ms/43A38rP

Creating the sex scenes for the horror musical “Teeth” required a hyper attention to detail, extra communication and some strategically placed silicone. nyti.ms/4awujpD

The British director Rebecca Frecknall wanted to direct “Cabaret” since she was a girl. Now, her take on the classic musical, starring Eddie Redmaybe, is coming to Broadway. nyti.ms/3VEIpRF