Her experimental play Mr Burns was described as 'three hours of utter hell' by one critic " but Washburn has been hailed as one of the most innovative playwrights aroundThe playwright Anne W…
Woodshed Collective's theatrical scavenger hunt sends participants racing from one location to the next in Lower Manhattan, often at a jog, sometimes in a moving vehicle.
If an existentialist philosopher ever attempted a light romantic comedy, it might sound a little like this quaintly absurdist play by Alan Hruska at the Cherry Lane Theater.
The action star on his upcoming stage turn as a mattress-bound romance writer in "Misery."
MCC Theater, New YorkIt's charming, but this play about an initially reluctant drag queen ducks the complicated questions " though the musical numbers are dynamiteTo thine own self be true. …
The quirky theater company Elevator Repair Service is staging a play by Sibyl Kempson, who is known for her offbeat scripts.
The German writer Marius von Mayenburg's play about troubled adolescent siblings is at the Brick Theater in Williamsburg.
Ms. Engel, best known for Georgette on the 1970s sitcom, returns to the stage in the play "John," which features her in her first leading role.
French whimsy, British royals and Liberian rebels vie for attention with adaptations of Misery and a Confederacy of Dunces and a Lloyd Webber musicalThe Berkeley Repertory Theatre trades nor…
This play, set five years after the Rwanda genocide, examines the slipperiness of truth, the difficulty of ever determining what happened and why.
The new Broadway season includes no new plays by women or writers of color, and last season less than a quarter of plays produced in America were by women. While the internet is finally begi…
The writer has several plays preparing for production, including "Photograph 51," which will star Nicole Kidman in London.
In Mr. Posner's first New York production, the melancholy comedy "Judy," set in the year 2040, the theater no longer exists.
The New York International Fringe Festival, now in full swing, features glimmers of talent and skill amid the amateurism and malfunctioning air-conditioners.
Mr. Ridley, whose controversial play, "Mercury Fur," opens this week Off Broadway, follows his art across many forms: photography, film and children's novels among them.
Mr. Ridley, whose controversial play, "Mercury Fur," opens this week Off Broadway, follows his art across many forms: photography, film and children's novels among them.
Shakespeare in the Park, New YorkSex, sleaze and leather jerkins all feature in Daniel Sullivan's farcical take on ancient Britain, which despite its shortcomings manages to succeed despite …
Signature Theatre, New YorkThe latest offering from Annie Baker focuses on things both seen and unseen, and benefits hugely from the playwright's feel for character and dialogueMaybe the pla…
Michael Friedman and Daniel Goldstein's new chamber musical examines a family's past.
The play, at the Second Stage Theater, is a fictionalized version of a workshop for prison inmates.
The second part of this series comprises three plays centering on an intimate encounter, a dictator and a man stuck in his comfort zone.
A journalist has called for a return to the days when theatregoers would put on their best outfits " but given that most people consume culture at home, showing up with pants on probably see…
This play centers on a pining Soviet locomotive who is dragooned by circus impresarios for some challenging tasks.
This annual festival features plays by Neil LaBute, Vickie Ramirez and Matthew Lopez.
New York City Center, New YorkThomas Ostermeier's present-day production works against the text, which is exciting in the first half but makes the tragedy unmotivated and unlikelyThomas Oste…