1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
"Three Sisters," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, features Chekhov's unhappy characters in all their contradictions.
The tortured souls in "Strange Interlude," Eugene O'Neill's epic drama from 1928, now onstage at the Shakespeare Theater Company in Washington, provoke merriment in the audience.
As evidenced by more than 600 responses on the Web site of The New York Times, "Death of a Salesman" remains a deeply affecting play.
"Mr. Broadway" is a posthumously published memoir by Gerald Schoenfeld, one of the engines of the Shubert Organization for decades.
The Labyrinth Theater Company's production of Brett C. Leonard's kitchen-sink drama, "Ninth and Joanie," is at the Bank Street Theater.
In "You Better Sit Down: Tales From My Parents' Divorce," four performers portray their own parents in a collage of reminiscences about their marriages, all past history.
In his terrific new memoir, Frank Langella reflects on the "impermanence" of the actor's life.
The most prominent N.B.A. rivalry of the 1980s provides the basis for the new play "Magic/Bird," on Broadway at the Longacre Theater.
The celebrity chef Rick Bayless has a role in "Cascabel," a Lookingglass Theater production in Chicago that concerns food and romance.
Calixto Bieito's adaptation of "Camino Real" at the Goodman Theater in Chicago finds an even more baffling story inside an already perplexing play.
"The Taming of the Shrew," at the Duke on 42nd Street, sets Shakespeare's tale in the Wild West.
Amy Herzog's play "4000 Miles" is the rare theatrical production that achieves perfection on its own terms.
A starry but sluggish Broadway revival, "Gore Vidal's The Best Man" stars John Larroquette, James Earl Jones, Eric McCormack and Angela Lansbury.
The City Center Encores! production of "Pipe Dream" firmly proves that even second-tier Rodgers and Hammerstein musicals have their undisputable charms.
The collaborators on "[title of show]" return with "Now. Hear. This.," an endearing musical that contemplates the fates of the dinosaurs, the cosmos and the cast.
The Red Scare looms as men await divorces in 1950s Nevada in "Regrets," a new play by the British writer Matt Charman at City Center Stage 1.
Performers at the Chocolate Factory, in a sea of tennis balls, animate David Foster Wallace's brilliant, funny, self-conscious writer's voice.
The Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's "Jesus Christ Superstar" employs modern dress and an arena-rock atmosphere.
More thoughts about the controversy surrounding "The Agony and the Ecstasy of Steve Jobs" and the issue of truth in documentary theater.
In Dan LeFranc's play "The Big Meal" actors take turns portraying the members of a growing family across decades of life.
Nonfiction should mean facts and nothing but the facts, argues the theater critic Charles Isherwood, in support of the retraction by "This American Life" of a program about Mike Daisey's "Th…
You can practically inhale the aroma of the gladioluses flooding the bedroom where the Red Bull Theater's production of Jean Genet's psychodrama "The Maids" is set.
Off Broadway's major companies, regenerating for years, are now opening a spate of new theaters, raising questions of commercialism.
Off-Broadway theater is thriving. Impressive new buildings and stages have more than replaced those that have disappeared. Even so, prosperity has its perils.
In "An Iliad" at the New York Theater Workshop, the violence of the Trojan War is evoked through the words of a single actor.
