1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
In "The Muscles in Our Toes," by Stephen Belber, friends plot a rescue mission for a friend held by terrorists.
A father-son story is at the heart of Benjamin Scheuer's one-man show, "The Lion," from Manhattan Theater Club.
"Tick, Tick ... Boom!" tells the story of Jonathan Larson, a composer whose work, most notably "Rent," was lauded after his death at 35.
Unlike the Broadway original, a vivid new production of "Side Show" at the Kennedy Center endows the performers with stark physical deformities.
The rapper Tupac Shakur inspired "Holler if Ya Hear Me," a new Broadway musical with a vision of black life in urban America.
Religious beliefs and contemporary life rub up against each other in Ayad Akhtar's new play, "The Who & The What."
Despite the teeth-baring title, the tone is mostly cool and considered in "Pat Kirkwood Is Angry," a spellbinding cabaret show written by and starring the gifted singer Jessica Walker.
"The Who and the What," part of Lincoln Center Theater's LCT3 program, is the new play from Ayad Akhtar, who won the Pulitzer Prize last year for "Disgraced."
Nancy Harris's "Our New Girl," presented by the Atlantic Theater Company, is about a well-off London family with many domestic pressures.
Paths cross and alliances are made in Cori Thomas's "When January Feels Like Summer."
Jim Dale's one-man show, "Just Jim Dale," revisits the highs and pratfalls of his long and varied career in show business.
Shakespeare's late romance "The Tempest" itself undergoes a sea change in the inventive production of the play at American Repertory Theater in Cambridge, Mass.
Theater for a New Audience has revived Ionesco's "The Killer," in which an Everyman tries to track down the source of evil that is leaving people dead in an otherwise idyllic place.
The workers of a sandwich franchise try to keep the shop afloat after the owner mysteriously disappears in Bess Wohl's new comedy, "American Hero."
The new show "Just Jim Dale" will feature the titular star alone onstage, supported only by the pianist Mark York.
In "The Few," a new play by Samuel D. Hunter, a publication editor and her eagerly awkward assistant react differently to the arrival of an old friend.
"Irma La Douce" brings the City Center Encores! season to a close, with Jennifer Bowles in the title role and Rob McClure as the young law student who adores her.
A theater critic of The New York Times makes his Tony Award choices.
"Violet," "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder," "The Realistic Joneses" and "Twelfth Night/Richard III": Broadway can still surprise.
"The City of Conversation," Anthony Giardina's new play at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater, charts the rise of partisan politics in Washington through the lens of a socialite.
"Red-Eye to Havre de Grace" finds Edgar Allan Poe near the end of his life, short of money, on an exhausting speaking tour and on the wrong train.
Adventurous producers shouldn't be dissuaded by the "ostentatious snubbing" of Will Eno's challenging play.
In the "The Substance of Fire" at the Second Stage Theater, a family of publishers fights over printing academic books versus sexy novels.
"The Great Immensity," at the Public Theater, features some hilariously depressing tunes about the dire state of the world and its beleaguered creatures.
"The Velocity of Autumn," starring Estelle Parsons and Stephen Spinella, is a wispy but amiable comedy-drama about the ravages of getting older.
