"We're Gonna Die" is a bizarre combination of pop concert and autobiographical lament for the human condition, written and performed by Young Jean Lee.
The childhood pain and grown-up accusations of one sibling and the responses, or lack thereof, from other family members are central to the tension of "Born Bad."
At the Brooklyn Academy of Music, a different brand of "Macbeth" " one less imposing and more unsure " still suffers from an excess of ambition.
The Humana Festival of New American Plays presented works whose characters are searching for new experiences.
"Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" is a powerful new drama by Rajiv Joseph, in which Robin Williams embodies the creature who becomes the play's questioning conscience.
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A sense of disorientation unites audience and protagonist in "The Other Place."
The sudden death of a high school student shapes "The Dream of the Burning Boy," an eloquent, affecting new play by the newcomer David West Read.
John Leguizamo's new solo Broadway show recounts his personal and professional travails growing up in Queens and making it in show business.
"Kin," Bathsheba Doran's exquisitely wrought comedy-drama, depicts a daisy chain of relationships while moving through a couple of generations and across several American states and two coun…
"Priscilla Queen of the Desert," a hyperactively splashy musical, wants so desperately to give audiences a good time that the results are oddly enervating.
The 1948 Frank Loesser musical farce "Where's Charley?" gets a cheery and nimble revival at City Center.
The months of March and April are traditionally the busiest of the theater season, and this spring's crop seems more robust than usual. A whopping 13 shows are opening on Broadway in April -…
The months of March and April are traditionally the busiest of the theater season, and this spring's crop seems more robust than usual. A whopping 13 shows are opening on Broadway in April -…
In "Kathy Griffin Wants a Tony" the tart-tongued comic combines insider access to the world of the famous (or at least the pseudo-famous) and her willingness to be frank about its inhabitant…
In "Little Miss Sunshine," a chipper and polished but oppressively cute musical, the indomitable Hoover clan sings down even the specter of sudden death.
A new staging of "The Merchant of Venice," from Theater for a New Audience, stars F. Murray Abraham as Shylock.
The decision to move long-running Broadway hits to Off Broadway has both its inspiring and dispiriting sides.
The decision to move long-running Broadway hits to Off Broadway has both its inspiring and dispiriting sides.
In Bryony Lavery's play "Beautiful Burnout," at St. Ann's Warehouse, amateur boxers have dreams of bigger things.
The Public Theater's new production of "Timon of Athens," the inaugural Shakespeare Lab presentation from the company, stars Richard Thomas.
In "The Hallway Trilogy" by Adam Rapp, a nondescript passageway in a Lower East Side tenement becomes a carnival of the desperate, the grotesque, the outrageous.
The Wooster Group's production of "Vieux Carré," a Tennessee Williams play, is a ready-made aesthetic mashup that presents Williams at his most poetic in one scene, and his most frankly sex…
On the theater schedule: a "Born Yesterday" revival, "Bengal Tiger" and Derek Jacobi's Lear.
Ms. Smith's performance in "Downton Abbey" was particularly worth cherishing because she has been absent from the stage and seen only infrequently on film since undergoing treatment for brea…