Review: 'Baby Doll,' a Child-Woman at the Center of a Moral Sinkhole
The McCarter Theater's production doesn't stray far from the indelible 1956 movie, but the sexuality feels toned down.
The McCarter Theater's production doesn't stray far from the indelible 1956 movie, but the sexuality feels toned down.
Lucas Hnath's depiction of a conservative congregation wrestling with radical new ideas mirrors what's happening now in churches across the country.
Mr. Laurence wrote and stars in this play, in which his character is a Hamlet-obsessed actor who wants to find his birth mother.
Max Posner's play depicts the households of three siblings in the future, when everyone seems to spout bizarre thoughts.
This production includes short plays by Beth Henley, Elizabeth Egloff, John Gaure, Marcus Gardley, David Grimm and Rebecca Gilman.
Productions include an intriguing-sounding show called "Futurity," coming in the fall from Soho Rep, and the revival of Sam Shepard's "Fool for Love."
A straight young man in the Florida Panhandle finds an unlikely path to prosperity in this Matthew Lopez play at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
Professional actors like Brandon Victor Dixon and amateur entertainers combine to turn this adaptation of Homer's poem into a vibrant tapestry.
The Acting Company has put together an evening of Williams's works by a distinguished roster of American playwrights.
The troupe has dedicated itself to community outreach and "color-conscious" casting.
Two men tussle, verbally and philosophically, for the affections of a woman in Anna Ziegler's memory play about the fragile dynamics of relationships.
This play by Sherie Rene Scott, one of its stars, and Dick Scanlan, is drawn on their experience working with prisoners on monologues about their lives.
A young stranger interrupts a wealthy old widow's plan to give away everything she owns in this new play at the Signature Theater.
Joseph Haj's new production, which includes sections set to music, charts the misfortunes of a prince whose daughter ultimately rescues him from despair.
This play at the Duke on 42nd Street is about an anthropologist whose deeply personal reasons for pursuing her work lead her into questionable moral territory.
At the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, Jeff Whitty's merry new work combines a 16th-century poetic tale with the music of the Go-Go's.
Lynn Nottage's new drama, produced at the Oregon Shakespeare Festival, examines two generations of factory workers and the decline of industry in the United States.
This original musical from the married team of Robert Lopez and Kristen Anderson-Lopez, who won an Oscar for their song "Let It Go," is making its premiere at La Jolla Playhouse.
The membrane between life and death seems strangely permeable in the Signature Theater's production of Annie Baker's appealingly odd drama.
This Shakespeare in the Park production stars Lily Rabe and Hamish Linklater as a couple torn apart and then reunited.
Joshua Harmon's play, about a young gay man who is losing his best girlfriends to wedding bells, is concluding its run at the Laura Pels Theater.
A note found in a dead teenager's pocket sets off unpredictable events in the sweet, sad and quite moving new musical making its premiere at Arena Stage in Washington.
Thomas Ostermeier's staging of Strindberg's 1888 tale about a socially forbidden love affair resets the story in the world of Russia's new billionaires.
This new play by Fernanda Coppel, part of Second Stage's Uptown summer season, stars Karen Pittman as a powerful sports agent.
Staged at the Lincoln Center Festival, the play features an array of strange characters who flit among landscapes depicted in illuminated glass boxes.