1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
Reid Farrington splices together video footage and live performance to produce a theoretical matchup of Mike Tyson and Muhammad Ali in "Tyson vs. Ali."
WordPlay Shakespeare and other programs allow readers to watch or listen to sections of his works as they view the text.
Where and how to ring in the New Year is a perennial question. If you're feeling festive and want to make a full night of it, there are several theater-related offerings to choose from. …
In "A Piece of Work," presented at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Fishman Space, the text of "Hamlet" has been run through computer algorithms to disorienting effect.
In "The Life and Death of Marina Abramovic," Robert Wilson stages the life and imaginary death of this performance artist.
"The Rime of the Ancient Mariner" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music's Harvey Theater brings together poetry and motion in a stage and dance interpretation.
New plays by Amy Herzog and Annie Baker " as well as usual classics and unusual genres " are among a year's most pleasurable productions.
"The (Curious Case of the) Watson Intelligence" weaves love and machines into its plot.
Alessandri Ferri and Herman Cornejo play lovers of very different ages in "Chéri," a dramatically muted but gorgeously danced new work from the choreographer Martha Clarke. …
"What's It All About? Bacharach Reimagined," a musical revue at New York Theater Workshop, digs into the melancholy in many of the hits that Mr. Bacharach wrote with Hal David. &n…
In "Bodycast," Frances McDormand does a dramatic reading of the artist Suzanne Bocanegra's musings.
"One Night...," A timely new play by Charles Fuller, tackles issues around sexual assault in the armed forces.
Frances McDormand takes to the intimate Fishman Space at the Brooklyn Academy of Music to portray Suzanne Bocanegra giving a lecture in "Bodycast."
The new play "And Away We Go," at the Pearl Theater, is Terrence McNally's love letter to theater through the centuries.
A. R. Gurney's "Family Furniture" is a tender, sepia-toned play about a traumatic passage in the lives of a tight-knit, well-bred clan.
"How I Learned What I Learned," a memoir in monologue written and originally performed by August Wilson, is now being delivered by Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
Blythe Danner and Sarah Jessica Parker are a mother and daughter with emotional and financial issues at their feet in "The Commons of Pensacola," by the actress Amanda Peet. …
A Times critic admits to feeling envy in response to readers' picks of the best actors they ever saw perform in William Shakespeare's plays.
In Meghan Kennedy's "Too Much, Too Much, Too Many," a daughter tries to draw her mother out of her room, where she's been bunkered since her husband died.
A casual reunion of three longtime buddies betrays a darker purpose in "Small Engine Repair," a raw, funny and well-tooled new play written by and featuring John Pollono. &n…
"A Gentleman's Guide to Love and Murder," now on Broadway, turns the Alec Guinness movie classic "Kind Hearts and Coronets" into a musical, with Jefferson Mays in eight roles. &nb…
"Little Miss Sunshine," a musical adaptation of the popular indie film, centers on a frazzled family's road trip to a children's beauty pageant in California.
When it comes to Shakespeare, most actors are merely players. What does it take to become a master?
Marlane Meyer's comedy-drama "The Patron Saint of Sea Monsters," at Playwrights Horizons, explores the seemingly inexplicable romance between a doctor and an unemployed jar factory worker.&n…
"The Mutilated," a rarely seen Tennessee Williams comedy, is being boisterously revived in a production starring the quirky team of Penny Arcade and Mink Stole.
