The Break of Noon and The Red Shoes Play With Souls and Soles by Alexis Soloski

New work from Neil LaBute and the U.K.'s Kneehigh

Ho! and Looking at Christmas Stuff New York's Stockings by Alexis Soloski

New pieces by Brian Dykstra and Steven Banks join a Yule-logged season

Witness Relocation's ETs Want Booze by Alexis Soloski

Whiskey-craving space creatures land in Bushwick

Inspector Sands Slips Into Hysteria by Alexis Soloski

The young London company makes its U.S. debut

Egon Schiele Paints Again in Pass the Blutwurst, Bitte by Alexis Soloski

John Kelly revives his noted performance piece

In pursuit of US theatre's past perfect by Alexis Soloski

With no Shakespearean model to set a precedent, America's history plays - as showcased in New York this month - are a varied bunch. But how closely should they stick to events?

In pursuit of US theatre's past perfect by Alexis Soloski

"Anybody can make history," Oscar Wilde quipped. "Only a great man can write it." This year on New York stages, many men and a few women have been attempting to rewrite and revise history in…

Reed Birney's Brilliant Career by Alexis Soloski

From Swiss Family Robinson to anal stage rape--a chat with the veteran actor

Alan Rickman, Corrupt Banker in Ibsen's John Gabriel Borkman by Alexis Soloski

Alan Rickman has a voice that's bitter and rich and sinister, like a malevolent cup of coffee. "At drama school, it was the subject of a great...

Under the Radar Returns to NYC by Alexis Soloski

Live actors take a backseat in four festival shows—a roundup review

Freedom Club Takes Aim by Alexis Soloski

New Paradise Laboratories and the Riot Group try assassination

Blood From a Stone Smashes Things Up at the New Group by Alexis Soloski

Ethan Hawke stars in Tommy Nohilly's family drama

Pants on Fire's Metamorphoses Puts Ovid Through Some Changes by Alexis Soloski

A British company brings its revamped myths to the Flea

Cymbeline and The Misanthrope by Alexis Soloski

English guy and Frenchie get their plays staged

No actors. Just robots. Call this a play? by Alexis Soloski

Gruesome Playground Injuries--Rajiv Joseph's Scar Trek by Alexis Soloski

The red and the black-and-blue in a new two-hander

American Sexy Likes You, Whoreface by Alexis Soloski

Bad play looks at bad kids being bad

The Whipping Man Looks at a Curious Post-Civil War Moment by Alexis Soloski

Rebs & Jews & slaves in Matthew Lopez's MTC play

The Witch of Edmonton Speaks of the Devil by Alexis Soloski

Red Bull Theater returns with its latest Jacobean oldie

Half Straddle Runs a Trick Play by Alexis Soloski

In the Pony Palace/FOOTBALL would confuse Vince Lombardi

Apple Cove Bears Little Fruit by Alexis Soloski

The Women's Project stages a busy satire

The Diary of a Madman Brings Some Pleasing Derangement to BAM by Alexis Soloski

Geoffrey Rush flips out in a Gogol adaptation

A Lost Shakespeare? It’s a Mystery by Alexis Soloski

The Classic Stage Company takes on a production of the play “Double Falsehood,” an adaption by Lewis Theobald of “Cardenio,” a very possible collaboration by Shak…

Permission review - spanking comedy makes its mark by Alexis Soloski

Lucille Lortel Theater, New YorkChristian Domestic Discipline, in which a wife submits to being spanked by her husband, is the subject of a slyly poignant play that packs a wallop Continue r…

Review: ‘Macbeth,’ Accelerated, at Public Theater by Alexis Soloski

The Public’s Mobile Shakespeare Unit, which usually performs at places like prisons, returns home with its brisk production of Shakespeare’s tragedy.

The Way We Get By review – Neil LaBute's inarticulate characters irritate by Alexis Soloski

Second Stage, New YorkAmanda Seyfried and Thomas Sadoski star in a morning-after drama where they talk endlessly without saying anything of substance Continue reading...

Review: Ensemble Studio Theater’s ‘35th Marathon of One-Act Plays’ by Alexis Soloski

In just two hours, Series A of the marathon races from Manhattan to Brooklyn, from a port town in Kenya to the capital of Idaho, from the 1950’s to right now.

Review: ‘The Flatiron Hex,’ a Delirious Tale With Puppets and Ickiness by Alexis Soloski

Created by the puppeteer James Godwin, this show centers on an I.T. expert and shaman trying to protect a city amid a toxic swamp.

Review: In ‘Heartbreak,’ Talk Is Complicated by Alexis Soloski

Ariel Stess’s play at the Bushwick Starr, centered on the family of a building company owner, abounds in wordplay.

Safely Costuming ‘Permission,’ a High-Impact Comedy From Robert Askins by Alexis Soloski

Paloma Young, a Tony Award-winning costume designer, assembled clothing that could cushion the spanks in “Permission,” a comedy about spousal corporal punishment.

Review: ‘Major Barbara’ at Brave New World Repertory in Brooklyn by Alexis Soloski

George Bernard Shaw’s 1905 play pits a Salvation Army officer’s “blood and fire” and against her munitions manufacturer father’s “money and gunpowder.”