1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
Is it more effective to cloak Shakespearean text in contemporary imagery, or to hew to a more "classical" line?
Bryan Cranston is Lyndon B. Johnson in "All the Way," a play set immediately after President Kennedy's assassination.
Episodes 4.5 and 5 of "Life and Times," from Nature Theater of Oklahoma, continued over the weekend, in film and with a book modeled on early medieval illuminated manuscripts. &nb…
Ms. Stritch, who made a dramatic exit from her home at the Carlyle Hotel this spring, is settling into her new life in Birmingham, Mich., cosmos and all.
Directed and starring Robert Lepage, "The Blue Dragon," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, revisits characters first created in "The Dragons' Trilogy."
"Women or Nothing" is a comedy about a lesbian couple who want to trick a man into helping them have a baby.
Black stars from two very different generations, Muhammad Ali and Stepin Fetchit, meet for advice and conflict in "Fetch Clay, Make Man."
A theater critic (and frequent fan) tries to sell a skeptic on this season's full slate.
In "All the Faces of the Moon," Mike Daisey performs a different, highly digressive monologue each night through Oct. 3 at Joe's Pub.
In "All the Faces of the Moon," Mike Daisey performs a different, highly digressive monologue each night through Oct. 3 at Joe's Pub.
A Chicago publishing house faces hard times in an era of digital change in Regina Taylor's bewildering new play, "stop.reset."
"The Hill Town Plays," the cycle of five dramas by Lucy Thurber set in rural western Massachusetts, is filled with drinking, violence, misguided sex and other troubling activity. …
The Signature Theater has unearthed a previously unseen Foote play, "The Old Friends."
On Broadway and off this fall, some shows feature unlikely pairings onstage. Some matchups are natural, some decidedly not.
A new play from the Amoralists explores the Southern gothic world of graveyards, the dead, their souls and sex.
For the critic Charles Isherwood, "The Poseidon Adventure" touched off his artistic judgment.
"Soul Doctor," a musical starring Eric Anderson about the life of Shlomo Carlebach, the folk-singing rabbi, has opened at Circle in the Square.
The Chicago theater scene inspires a deep-rooted loyalty, and this summer, Michael Shannon and David Schwimmer, who went on to TV and film, have returned.
New plays these days tend to come in slimmed-down sizes. But not the latest work from the Amoralists.
Opposites attract in the musical comedy "First Date," starring Zachary Levi and Krysta Rodriguez, at the Longacre Theater.
The director Mary Zimmerman takes an understated approach in her retelling of "The Jungle Book," adapted from the Disney movie (and Kipling), at the Goodman Theater.
This year's Lincoln Center Festival provided a few impressive shows and many reasons for theatergoers to complain.
"Murder for Two," a new two-performer musical produced by Second Stage Theater's Uptown series, uses its actor-doubling to daffy effects.
A philosophy grad student is entangled in the silly world of competitive reality television in "Nobody Loves You," a musical at Second Stage Theater.
Shakespeare in the Park productions offer primal joys, even for naturephobes like this critic.
