Diana Oh, Passionate Voice for Queer Liberation in Theater, Dies at 38 by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mx. Oh’s politically provocative and often playful works, including the Off Broadway production “{my lingerie play},” asserted the right to be oneself while having fun.

‘Cold War Choir Practice’ Review: When the President Made a Deal by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ro Reddick’s music-infused comedy, set during the Cold War, finishes this year’s edition of Clubbed Thumb’s Summerworks festival on a high.

‘Fight Back’ Recreates an Act Up Meeting From 1989 by Laura Collins-Hughes

This immersive theater experiment enlists attendees to help recreate an AIDS activist meeting from 1989 as an exercise in empathy.

Broadway Shows Closing Soon: ‘Dorian Gray,’ ‘Sunset Boulevard’ and More by Laura Collins-Hughes

Catch two Tony-winning performances, Sarah Snook in the Oscar Wilde classic and Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, before these productions and others wrap up.

13 Off Broadway Shows to See in June by Laura Collins-Hughes

Reed Birney and Lisa Emery in a two-hander, Taylor Mac in a Molière riff and Jay Ellis in a romantic drama — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.

In One Image: by James Estrin and Laura Collins-Hughes

‘Eurydice’ Review: Maya Hawke in the Underworld by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress stars in Sarah Ruhl’s reimagining of this classic myth, with a focus on a daughter’s reunion with her beloved father after death.

Dozens of Festival Plays Worth Traveling to This Summer by Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Across the country, you’ll find Shakespeare in amphitheaters, exciting new works on intimate stages and many regional repertories in bucolic settings.

‘O.K.!’ Review: When the Abortion Clinic Cancels by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Christin Eve Cato’s new backstage dramedy, an actress’s plan to terminate a pregnancy collides with the rollback of reproductive rights.

‘Business Ideas’ Review: A Parable in a Cute Cafe by Laura Collins-Hughes

Milo Cramer’s new comedy about work, survival and the quest for a meaningful life opens Clubbed Thumb’s venerable Summerworks festival.

In ‘Irishtown’ and ‘The Black Wolfe Tone,’ Where Are the Rolling Hills? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Two plays at Irish Repertory Theater, one featuring a “Derry Girls” star, explore the real and the mythical in cultural identity.

‘Real Women Have Curves’ Review: This American (Immigrant) Life by Laura Collins-Hughes

On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one’s dreams.

‘Hold Me in the Water’ Review: Smitten, and Primed to Flirt by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning “Dark Disabled Stories” with a rom-com.

‘Floyd Collins’ Review: Trapped in a Cave and in a Media Circus by Laura Collins-Hughes

One of the wonders of this glorious-sounding new Broadway production is how far from claustrophobic this Kentucky cave saga feels.

‘Amm(i)gone’ and ‘A Mother’: Sons Calling for Their Mothers by Laura Collins-Hughes

The maternal embrace of young men and their battles figures in two very different plays, one a solo work and the other a Brechtian riff starring Jessica Hecht.

At 90, Wole Soyinka Revisits His Younger, More Optimistic Self by Laura Collins-Hughes

With the Off Broadway debut of his 1958 play “The Swamp Dwellers,” the Nigerian Nobel laureate looks back on the writer he was when he was starting out.

‘I’m Assuming You Know David Greenspan’ Review: What Are You Waiting For? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mona Pirnot’s comic ode to the downtown artist doubles as a meditation on the precariousness of playwriting as a creative life.

13 Off Broadway Shows to Tempt You in April by Laura Collins-Hughes

New short plays by Caryl Churchill, a comedy with one erstwhile Derry Girl and a musical starring Anika Noni Rose — here’s what’s on New York stages this month.

12 Plays and Musicals Across the U.S. to Brighten the Spring by Laura Collins-Hughes

On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.

12 Plays and Musicals to Brighten the Spring by Laura Collins-Hughes

On stages across the country, there is no shortage of adventurous work, including plays by Lauren Yee, Larissa FastHorse and Zora Howard.

‘Amerikin’ Review: A White Supremacist’s Undoing: DNA by Laura Collins-Hughes

The protagonist of Chisa Hutchinson’s new play is proud of his racial heritage, until he gets some unexpected test results.

In ‘The Great Privation,’ Fending Off the Body Snatchers by Laura Collins-Hughes

Nia Akilah Robinson’s new play, for Soho Rep, digs into an ugly historical practice.

Just Before It Was a Cult Film, ‘Rocky Horror Show’ Was a Broadway Flop by Laura Collins-Hughes

Tim Curry and colleagues recall the musical’s misadventure at the Belasco Theater in 1975.

‘Safe House’ Review: Singing a Song of Loneliness by Laura Collins-Hughes

Enda Walsh’s formal experiment, at St. Ann’s Warehouse, finds him in pared-back mode.

Drawing From Bob Dylan’s Songbook, Learning Lessons in Mortality by Laura Collins-Hughes

Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson’s “Girl From the North Country” and its passage through Broadway’s pandemic shutdown.

‘Doomers’ Review: Hunkered Down, Debating the Peril and Promise of A.I. by Laura Collins-Hughes

Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman’s 2023 ouster from OpenAI.

The Next Hot Playwright? They Prefer the Ones Who Cooled Off. by Laura Collins-Hughes

With their Tent Theater Company, Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes want to raise the profiles of older artists and keep them from being sidelined.

‘Urinetown’ and Other Plays and Musicals to See in February by Laura Collins-Hughes

Also onstage in February: Calista Flockhart in a Sam Shepard revival, boldface names in Joy Behar’s “My First Ex-Husband” and a marionette made of ice.

A Tennessee Williams-Marlon Brando Tango, and Other Riffs on Classics by Laura Collins-Hughes

Three new plays onstage in Manhattan, “Kowalski,” “Mrs. Loman” and “Nina,” mine treasures of theater history.

‘Cymbeline’ and F. Murray Abraham in ‘Beckett Briefs’ Delight Off Broadway by Laura Collins-Hughes

Shakespeare’s overstuffed late play gets an entertaining refresh Off Broadway, where Irish Rep is also offering a program of Samuel Beckett shorts.

Practicing for When the Bombs Fall in ‘A Knock on the Roof’ by Laura Collins-Hughes

In a new solo play about ordinary people under bombardment in Gaza, a woman rehearses how she would escape her building if Israeli forces were to strike.