1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
A vice principal relentlessly grills an Arab-American student in Rajiv Joseph's drama "The North Pool." But why?
Danny Burstein and Sarah Paulson star in the Roundabout's revival of "Talley's Folly," Lanford Wilson's romantic comedy.
"Old Hats" is an ebullient new show from the veteran stage clowns Bill Irwin and David Shiner.
A marriage unravels in "Belleville," Amy Herzog's new drama set in Paris.
The New York Philharmonic is presenting a concert version of Rodgers and Hammerstein's "Carousel," which is as gorgeously sung a production of this Broadway musical as you are ever likely to…
Charles Isherwood, theater critic for The New York Times, answers readers' questions about new musicals, "The Testament of Mary" and other topics.
Emma Rice's "Wild Bride," a retelling of a Grimm fairy tale, takes place in a setting evoking the American South and the Great Depression.
In inspired hands the most unbeautiful, sometimes maddeningly hazy and imprecise language can take on a distinct and surprising appeal.
The Signature Theater Company's revival of "The Dance and the Railroad" exposes the thinness of this 1981 drama by David Henry Hwang.
"Isaac's Eye," by Lucas Hnath, imagines Isaac Newton as an ambitious young man hoping to win admission to the Royal Society.
"Hands on a Hardbody" and "Kinky Boots," musicals with working-class themes, will both be setting up shop on Broadway this spring.
Two productions in Chicago, "Teddy Ferrara" and "columbinus," exemplifies the challenges that playwrights face when they draw on a specific real-life events.
The Theater for a New Audience's production of "Much Ado About Nothing" features the British actor Jonathan Cake in a stylish performance as Benedick.
"The Laramie Project Cycle" is a two-part production about the killing of a gay man, Matthew Shepard, in Wyoming in 1998.
In the last couple of seasons the New York theater has taken its love affair with its own past to perverse new extremes by trying to resurrect notorious flops.
In "Luck of the Irish, " tensions rise when an Irish family, which was paid to buy a house in an all-white Boston neighborhood for a black family in the 1950s, comes back to claim the house.
Chythia Hopkins's latest piece, "This Clement World," includes original songs and video footage that she shot during a three-week Arctic expedition.
Taylor Mac and Lisa Kron are among the cast of the Foundry Theater's production of Brecht's "Good Person of Szechwan," at La MaMa.
In 1983 it opened and closed on the same night. Now "Moose Murders," the most famous flop in Broadway history, has returned in a revised version.
In "The Vandal," by Hamish Linklater, the characters contemplate life, death and Cool Ranch Doritos.
Nature Theater of Oklahoma's "Life and Times" reminds one critic that verbatim conversation on stage can offer its own distinctive pleasures.
At the Huntington Theater in Boston, staging Ralph Ellison's "Invisible Man," about a young black man trying to navigate a racist world, proves to be a challenging task.
"The House of Von Macramé" is a microbudget slasher movie spoof set in the backbiting world of fashion.
"The Jammer," by Rolin Jones, follows a young man as he follows his dreams to the roller derby.
"Life and Times: Episodes 1-4," a postmodern pop opera from the Nature Theater of Oklahoma, is an eight-hour epic journey of a young woman's life.
