1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
"Goodbar" takes the audience on a psychedelic tour of the main character's psyche through rhythmic rock songs.
Over the New Year's weekend I took a breather from the theater that left me feeling blissfully reenergized.
When my parents come to town, we sample the city's restaurants in five-day, two-big-meals-a-day binges that have become something of a legend among friends.
The clunker title isn't the only nonworking part in "Close Up Space," a new play by Molly Smith Metzler.
Some reflections, assessments and fantastical fake awards for the year in theater.
Charles Isherwood lists the plays that made his favorite nights at the theater in 2011.
A Public Lab production of "Titus Andronicus" is a careering pileup of gothic horrors in which great ingenuity is shown in violent murder.
"But then I met James Lapine." Thus ends, on a cliffhanger worthy of an artist who cherishes a passion for mystery tales, the first volume of Stephen Sondheim's collected lyrics, published l…
There are plenty of staggering secrets eager for the telling in "Stick Fly," a juicy family drama by Lydia R. Diamond.
"Krapp's Last Tape," by Samuel Beckett, stars John Hurt as a 69-year-old man celebrating his birthday by reassessing a passage in his life from some 30 years before, captured on a tape recor…
The second volume of Stephen Sondheim's collected lyrics, "Look, I Made a Hat," describes his collaborations with James Lapine as a vital artistic renewal.
In Jordan Harrison's play "Maple and Vine," stressed-out New Yorkers move into a community that tries to recreate the 1950s.
"Neighbourhood Watch," part of the annual Brits Off Broadway festival, will probably not be ranked high among Alan Ayckbourn's staggering output.
The Atlantic Theater Company is presenting "Happy Hour," a wearying evening of short plays by Ethan Coen.
Alan Alda's play about Marie Curie often feels like a talking diorama in a science museum, at least until it makes a sudden leap into juicy, gaslit melodrama in the second act.
Gift books for theatergoers: "Look, I Made a Hat," by Stephen Sondheim; "The Journals of Spalding Gray," edited by Nell Casey; and "Wendy and the Lost Boys," by Julie Salamon.
Breathtaking displays of gymnastics are the primary delights in "Bring It On: The Musical," a show about competing high-school cheerleading squads that is at the Ahmanson Theater in Los Ange…
"Blood and Gifts" centers on intelligence officers from the United States, Britain, Pakistan and the Soviet Union involved in Afghanistan in the 1980s.
Watching "An Evening With Patti LuPone and Mandy Patinkin" is a bit like riding a wooden roller coaster: one minute you're levitating with exhilaration, the next you're clinging to your seat…
Talkback on what "Funny Girl" cancellation portends
"Fragments," an evening of Samuel Beckett's short works presented at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, aims to reaffirm the ripe vein of humor in his vision.
"Standing on Ceremony: The Gay Marriage Plays" is a collection of monologues and short plays that celebrate the recent advances in winning marital rights for gay and lesbian couples.
The Devil is a sock puppet in "Hand to God," a foul-mouthed, fun-packed play about the urges that drive good men (and women, and boys) to dirty deeds.
"The Blue Flower," at Second Stage Theater, is a high-minded muddle of a musical that may leave you scratching your head.
"Venus in Fur," David Ives's sexy comedy, has opened on Broadway with Hugh Dancy and Nina Arianda, who is giving the first must-see performance of the Broadway season.
