1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
"Core Values," a comedy by Steven Levenson at Ars Nova, depicts a team-building retreat set up by the owner of a beleaguered travel agency.
"The Girl I Left Behind Me" conjures a vanished novelty of the theater, the cross-dressing female performers who once fascinated large audiences in England and America. &nbs…
Bette Midler plays Sue Mengers, the ruthless agent of 1970s Hollywood, in "I'll Eat You Last," a one-woman show on Broadway.
An accident that left the actor Tristan Sturrock with a broken neck is at the center of the play "Mayday Mayday" at St. Ann's Warehouse.
The Scotsman Alan Cumming plays every major role in a production of "Macbeth" at the Barrymore Theater.
Strindberg's "Dance of Death" can feel like a turn-of-the-20th-century Scandinavian template for Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?"
Frank Wildhorn's first Broadway musical, "Jekyll & Hyde," is being revived at the Marquis Theater.
Clifford Odets's 1949 drama, "The Big Knife," opened on Broadway in a sluggish, soulless revival starring the talented Bobby Cannavale.
The hit parade reels on seemingly forever in "Motown: The Musical," a dramatically slapdash but musically vibrant trip back to the glory days of Detroit.
"The Call" is a thoughtful and engrossing new play by Tanya Barfield.
The magician Rob Drummond catches a bullet in his mouth in his show at 59E59 Theaters.
Kathryn Hunter plays an ape who plays a man in "Kafka's Monkey," a solo show at the Baryshnikov Arts Center adapted from Kafka's short story "A Report to the Academy."
Several plays in this year's Humana Festival in Louisville explore the shaping of the human psyche.
Second Stage Theater's revival of "The Last Five Years" confirms memories of this musical by Jason Robert Brown as a series of pleasant, but not distinctive, show tunes.
At Playwrights Horizons, a theater dedicated to new work, some audience members have walked out of "The Flick," by Annie Baker, and the artistic director has sent an explanation by e-mail.
A middle-aged Hamlet, played by Paul Giamatti, takes the stage in the new production at Yale Repertory Theater.
"Hands on a Hardbody," on Broadway at the Brooks Atkinson Theater, is a musical with a handmade feel and a bluesy-country-rock vibe about Texans vying to win a truck.
Emilia Clarke in "Breakfast at Tiffany's" is the latest example of a screen actress struggling to adapt to the stage.
"The Mound Builders," by Lanford Wilson, being revived by the Signature Theater, offers an archaeological dig through the 1970s.
Christopher Durang's "Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," a comedy starring David Hyde Pierce and Sigourney Weaver, opened Thursday on Broadway.
In "The Lying Lesson," a new play by Craig Lucas, Bette Davis goes into semi-hiding in a Maine town in 1981 and meets a young woman who may not be as innocent as she seems.
"The Flick," Annie Baker's new work at Playwrights Horizons, focuses on the lives of three workers at a film theater.
Dominique Morisseau's "Detroit '67," at the Public Theater, sets its story of a fraying relationship between an adult brother and sister in a vividly specific place.
"Neva" is a Guillermo Calderón play set in 1905 Russia and centering on Chekhov's widow, Olga Knipper.
The life and career of Ann Richards, the onetime governor of Texas, are being given a ticker tape parade on the stage of the Vivian Beaumont Theater.
