1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
Brian Dennehy is appearing in Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" and Harold Pinter's "Homecoming" at this summer's Stratford Shakespeare Festival.
Revivals of "Camelot" and "Jesus Christ Superstar" at the Stratford Shakespeare Festival highlight the different styles of the two musicals.
In some senses the Royal Shakespeare Company's season at the Park Avenue Armory was a victim of its own success.
Watching high-level restaurant chefs and their assistants perform kitchen choreography is a gratifying form of dinner theater, says the theater critic Charles Isherwood.
In "Olive and the Bitter Herbs," Charles Busch's new comedy, a longtime resident in a New York apartment building who lives to criticize her neighbors becomes fascinated by the arrival of a …
"The Talls," Anna Kerrigan's coming-of-age comedy set in 1970, is a portrait of a functional family in a turbulent era.
"Julius Caesar" gets a turbulent staging in this Royal Shakespeare production at the Park Avenue Armory, part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
Sean O'Casey's rarely performed "Silver Tassie," part of the Lincoln Center Festival, mixes humor and the horror of war.
In "The Patsy" David Greenspan dervishes through three acts and three times as many roles, refracting a homespun comedy of young love through his own inimitable stage persona.
"All New People" is a slick and slight but lively new comedy by Zach Braff.
Lily Rabe and Josh Hamilton play a contemporary Nora and Torvald Helmer in the Williamstown Theater Festival production of "A Doll's House."
The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of "The Winter's Tale" strikes a fresh note of immediacy.
The new musical "Death Takes a Holiday" finds the Grim Reaper visiting the living and breaking into song.
Here, in no particular order, are a few of the high points in my Shakespeare-watching career.
The Royal Shakespeare Company's "King Lear" is mechanically sound but lacking depth.
The recent Broadway revival of "Hair" has splashed down for a welcome return visit this summer.
Rupert Goold's "Romeo and Juliet," the second production in the Royal Shakespeare Company's repertory season at the Park Avenue Armory, utterly fails to stir the heart.
"Silence! The Musical" is an exuberantly gross spoof of "The Silence of the Lambs."
With "As You Like It," the Royal Shakespeare Company begins a six-week residency at a transformed Park Avenue Armory.
"Measure for Measure" at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, is a dark, absorbing show.
Cirque du Soleil goes back to its tried-and-true formula for its new show, "Zarkana," at Radio City Music Hall.
The most powerful theater often spins magic from just a sliver of experience.
"Sex Lives of Our Parents," by Michael Mitnick, deals with a young couple meeting and courting.
Aimless youth and aimless old age meet in Amy Herzog's funny, moving new play "4000 Miles."
A musical version of Armistead Maupin's "Tales of the City" has a hometown premiere in San Francisco.
