"Scandalous" tells the story of Aimee Semple McPherson, a celebrity preacher in the 1920s and '30s who helped lay the foundations on which the modern evangelical movement was built.
Gretchen Mol stars as the title character in "The Good Mother," a new play by Francine Volpe at the Acorn Theater.
A revival of "The Mystery of Edwin Drood" at Studio 54 offers a chance to play detective and enjoy a cast, including Chita Rivera, that throws itself into the winking spirit of the show.
In "Golden Child," a rural Chinese household's fragile equilibrium, kept in place by tradition, is threatened when a husband returns from abroad with new ideas.
"Emotional Creature," written by Eve Ensler, uses monologues and other devices to explore the complexity of girls and young women worldwide.
There may be no more startling image on a New York stage right now than the one greeting audiences at Playwrights Horizons when the lights go up on "The Whale," an affecting new drama by Sam…
The writer Thornton Wilder's reputation does not suffer in a new biography by Penelope Niven.
The comedy "Bad Jews" stars Tracee Chimo as a young woman who is beaten to the punch regarding a family heirloom.
The Tony-winning Jefferson Mays plays multiple members of a family, all doomed to die, in the premiere of the musical comedy "A Gentleman's Guide to Love & Murder" at Hartford Stage.
"House/Divided" splices together vignettes of the fictional suffering of the Joad family from John Steinbeck's "Grapes of Wrath" with a panoramic view of current economic troubles.
In "House for Sale," at the Duke at 42nd Street, the Transport Group adapts a Jonathan Franzen essay about the death of his mother for the stage.
In "Wild With Happy," a new play written by and starring Colman Domingo, a down-in-the-dumps 40-year-old heads to the Magic Kingdom carrying his mother's ashes in an urn.
In "Disgraced," by Ayad Akhtar, Aasif Mandvi plays a Pakistani-American lawyer who thinks he's left his cultural roots behind, until he hosts a dinner party that goes awry.
The plot of "Modern Terrorism, or They Who Want to Kill Us and How We Learn to Love Them" involves a plan to blow up the observation deck of the Empire State Building.
In "Don't Go Gentle," complications arise when a retired judge tries to atone for the past by helping a woman and her teenage son.
The shattering revival of Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" is the first necessary ticket of the fall Broadway season.
Does Paul Rudd's screen reputation for easygoing comedy keep stage audiences from exploring the dark shades of his role in "Grace"?
The comedian Lewis Black, known for his angry-man stand-up, modulates the rage in this 90-minute show, transforming from sober glowering to jabbering-like-a-lunatic only to punctuate a key p…
In "Him," by Daisy Foote and starring Hallie Foote, three middle-aged siblings brood on their dwindling options.
The Théâtre de la Ville of Paris is presenting Eugène Ionesco's "Rhinoceros" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music through Saturday.
"Ten Chimneys" is a comedy-drama by Jeffrey Hatcher about Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne at home in their Wisconsin retreat.
Michael Benz is a youthful, high-spirited Hamlet in a visiting production from Shakespeare's Globe of London.
Legacies and echoes of the Rwandan slaughter of the 1990s are seen and heard in "Children of Killers," a play by Katori Hall.
Boyd Gaines and Richard Thomas star in a high-intensity, high-volume production of Ibsen's "Enemy of the People," on Broadway at the Samuel J. Friedman Theater.
What is it like to perform under the direction of Robert Wilson? An actor shares the experience of "Einstein on the Beach" with Charles Isherwood.