1,121 stories by "Charles Isherwood"
This revival of William Finn and James Lapine's show has so much vitality that it feels as fresh and startling as it did back in 1992.
Dig beneath the usual stories of broken marriages and adolescent angst, and we discover wells of darkness that seem to have no bottom.
Ms. Chenoweth starts a series of concert performances at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater.
Qui Nguyen's raucous comedy about Vietnamese refugees in America in 1975 smartly nails the dissonance of immigration.
David Hyde Pierce stars in this bleak new play by Adam Bock, which swerves suddenly from the mundane to the shocking.
This new play by Samuel D. Hunter centers on a group of 20-somethings who are exploring their problems as they prepare for a mission to the Middle East.
In "Letter to a Man," based on the diaries of Vaslav Nijinsky, Mikhail Baryshnikov plays the early-20th-century ballet great who became schizophrenic.
This absorbing solo show is an eerily timely offering by a gifted writer and performer.
Chris Gethard's solo show grapples with his uncomfortable if often mordantly funny relationship to depression.
In Leegrid Stevens's play, a dead, zombielike father plays on as his squabbling family surveys its present and re-enacts its past against a video-game background.
An old chestnut, tweaked for the stage, resurrects Bing Crosby and company in an Irving Berlin musical.
This spectacle combines the troupe's familiar pinpoint precision with surprises and a dash of exoticism.
This year's Provincetown Tennessee Williams Theater Festival featured works by Williams and Eugene O'Neill, including a searing "Desire Under the Elms."
Roundabout presents a stage adaptation of the 1942 movie starring Bing Crosby. The film is best known for Irving Berlin's "White Christmas."
The thought-provoking new show from the Civilians is a collage of testimonials drawn from people with a particular point of view on, or relationship with, mortality.
Our critic Charles Isherwood prizes epic theater. Here's his take on two inspired long-form works coming to an end in New York at roughly the same time.
In this Nilo Cruz play, Father Monroe grapples with the intimate feelings he shares with a woman whose family attends his church.
The avant-garde production, which borrows from several sources, includes a talking dog, scenes from Hitchcock and mind-numbing dialogue.
This play from the Atlantic Theater Company tells how the singer Sister Rosetta Tharpe and a protégée, Marie Knight, met and established their act in 1940s Mississippi.
Sarah Jones, Anna Deavere Smith and Lynn Nottage all have new works onstage this fall that grapple with the toughest issues in contemporary culture.
Julia Cho's drama about family, food and mortality, at Playwrights Horizons, focuses on the invisible barriers that spring up between people.
This Tony-winning 1959 musical about New York's colorful, corruption-fighting mayor gets an Off Broadway revival from the Berkshire Theater Group.
Professional and amateur actors and civic and cultural groups join in this contemporary musical adaptation from the Public Works program by the Public Theater.
With "Hamilton" still the toughest ticket in town, why not try the "Forbidden Broadway" spoof "Spamilton" at the Triad Theater.
Leslye Headland ("Bachelorette") has written a dark drama about infidelity and its unforeseen consequences, now playing at Second Stage Theater.
