100 stories by "CLAUDIA LA ROCCO"
Joseph Keckler's new work, "I Am an Opera," mixes song, text and video.
The National Asian-American Theater Company's "Dream Play" adapts the Strindberg drama about the daughter of a goddess who sets out to understand what makes human beings tick.
"Happy Birthday," written by Anita Loos as a vehicle for Helen Hayes, has been revived at the Beckett Theater.
"Pocahontas, and/or America," at the Bushwick Starr, repurposes historical material in a nearly two-hour production.
"Jackie," starring Tina Benko, is the writer Elfriede Jelinek's theatrical take on Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis.
Everybody is on the make in "The Mnemonist of Dutchess County," by Josh Koenigsberg, in which a synesthete with perfect memory is also out to get the girl.
"From White Plains" is a drama about homophobic bullying, vengeance, and perhaps taking it all too far.
In "Grimly Handsome," by Julia Jarcho, costumes switch, sets move, and the action snaps into another theatrical dimension.
In Kristen Kosmas's new play, the actor Christopher Walken (who appears in name only) meets with an unfortunate accident involving a ladder, setting off a chain of events.
Two Icelandic troupes bring the morality tale "Faust: A Love Story" to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
The four actors in the new Spanish-language play based on Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez's "Love in the Time of Cholera" portray characters over many decades, making them symbols.
It's difficult to make out a lot of what is happening in "Ich, Kürbisgeist," which has its own dialect, but it is still, somehow, powerful.
"How to Break," a new play by Aaron Jafferis and the Mixing Texts Collective, tells the story of two teenagers in a hospital who are united by their illnesses and their love of hip-hop.
Much of "Blood Play," in which the characters start as caricatures and grow more rounded, is spent in the basement of a couple's new house.
In "Motel Cherry," a new play by Peggy Stafford, a group of travelers congregate in a dumpy roadside motel.
Chris Tanner's "Etiquette of Death" closes La MaMa's 50th-anniversary season.
Confinement was a theme of several works in this year's Queer New York International Arts Festival.
In "Amelia," written by Alex Webb and performed on Governors Island, a woman journeys through the wartime South in search of her soldier husband.
The legacy of vaudeville, burlesque and cabaret is celebrated in Spiegelworld's new tent show "Empire."
In Yair Oelbaum's play of fractured narrative, part of the Whitney Biennial, two single mothers search for a lost daughter.
In Paul Durcan's "Give Me Your Hand," two actors read poems inspired by a visit to the National Gallery in London.
The director Daniel Fish will present a theater piece based on the words of David Foster Wallace at the Chocolate Factory in Queens.
Joyce Hokin Sachs's play "Eternal Equinox" at 59E59 Theaters concerns a fraught 24-hour interlude in the lives of the Bloombury artists Vanessa Bell and Duncan Grant.
"Leave the Balcony Open" at 3LD Art & Technology Center is about college students grieving and healing after two deaths.
John Jesurun's "Stopped Bridge of Dreams" has a voice that's mad, poetic and unsettling.
