1,308 stories by "Alexis Soloski"
Shakespeare's comedy gets a party setting by an English troupe that specializes in wild versions of classic texts.
Ms. Jah is slim and not quite 5-foot-2, but on stage she looms larger. Especially when she's holding a machine gun.
Deconstructing Eugene O'Neill's take on Aeschylus' "Oresteia" cycle, Target Margin mostly strips the stage and places the audience at a remove.
Lydia R Diamond's play, set during Barack Obama's 2008 victory, plays with ideas of race and academia but fails to join the dots in this unrooted dramaHas a play ever boasted a cast of chara…
The Pulitzer prize-winning writer's latest sees him tackle his own youth with an at times predictable yet bracing tour of a small Catholic boarding schoolManhattan Theater Club, New YorkHas …
This performance presents seminal events and issues of the period, but leaves many others untouched.
Siblings try to decide how to honor the memory of their brother, who died on Sept. 11, in Nick Gandiello's affecting if overwrought drama.
Robert Askins drew on his evangelical Texas upbringing to create a comedy about a teenager tormented by an evil puppet. As the play hits Britain, will he quit his day job mixing margaritas i…
A Brooklyn warehouse becomes a 1970s tropical resort in a sensuous Third Rail stage production that aims for immersion " but ultimately feels forcedHow quickly an orgy can pall.That's one of…
A Nigerian couple embrace and rebuff life in America in Mfoniso Udofia's play, directed by Ed Sylvanus Iskandar.
Mr. Shepard comments on his play, soon to have its third major production in New York; his upbringing; and the limitations he finds in his own oeuvre.
Sam Shepard's play has had two major New York productions; a third is coming to the New Group. Cast members in each have something to say about it.
This play, an adaptation of Margery Williams's 1922 book, features the bond between a boy and a stuffed toy he receives for Christmas.
Samuel J Friedman Theatre, New YorkUnfocused, anemic and astonishingly trivial, the only audience members likely to be scandalised by this adultery drama are those who need to get out moreTh…
In Anna Moench's play a woman gives up her job to accompany her husband to a seminary, where she must learn to be a docile homemaker.
Dorothée Munyaneza uses spoken word, song and movement to revisit the genocide that forced her to flee her home as a 12-year-old.
American Airlines Theater, New YorkMichael Frayn's play about a disastrous attempt to stage the farce Nothing On is one of the funniest ever " but at times the cast seem to be acting in diff…
The piece by the Australian company Ranters Theater is said to be based on a series of conversations with strangers.
St Anne's Warehouse, New YorkMusic's eclectic spin on minimalism the high points of composer Donnacha Dennehy and playwright Enda Walsh's collaborationThis small inn on the Irish coast is no…
Clove Galilee revives a show she developed with her mother, Ruth Maleczech, a founder of the experimental theater company Mabou Mines, who died in 2013.
Ms. Lewis, a Broadway veteran, is replacing Tonya Pinkins, who quit the production last week because of creative differences with its director, Brian Kulick.
The new 18-day theater festival, which begins on Jan. 13, in the combined effort of several Brooklyn theaters seeking broader exposure for local work.
The differences between Tonya Pinkins, the lead actress, and Brian Kulick, the director, were touched by racial perceptions and diverging visions.
"Skeleton Crew," set in 2008, is the last in her trilogy of plays about Detroit.
Tyler Lea steps into the principal role in this mystery, using posture and gesture to convey his distress in certain situations.
