The British have a high regard for the state-of-the-nation play, that genre in which dramatists as different as David Hare, Alan Bennett, Richard Bean and Lucy Prebble take the temperature o…
The hit 1980s film has been revamped as a hilarious stage production for the #MeToo era, smartly navigating new gender politics and starring Santino Fontana in a Tony-worthy turn playing the…
Let's face it: There are more ways these days to get a musical version of "Tootsie" wrong than right. The world has changed since Dustin Hoffman donned a red tousled wig, talked in a smoky S…
Arthur Miller's play gets a timely revival by the Roundabout Theatre Company, director Jack O'Brien and costar Benjamin Walker, whose anguish and sorrow help to propel a domestic drama into …
The carpentry of an Arthur Miller play, all that sawing, hammering and sanding of wood, can sometimes distract from the impressiveness of the house that has been theatrically constructed. "A…
No contemporary play better captures America's cultural divides than Eleanor Burgess' "The Niceties," in which a standout black student and a distinguished white professor clash over race an…
College campuses have become the crucible of the new and expanded culture wars embroiling America, and no contemporary play does a better job of capturing the tenor of this fierce battle tha…
Nia Vardalos reprises her role in Pasadena Playhouse's profoundly moving adaptation of Cheryl Strayed's "Dear Sugar" columns.
Character, the way we conduct ourselves in the world, is in decline in America. Consider the evidence: A president who lies so prolifically that media outlets have assigned teams of reporter…
After exploring how his Vietnamese parents met in a refugee camp in America in his breathtakingly original comedy "Vietgone," playwright Qui Nguyen picks up the story of their lives in the u…
In "Vietgone," playwright Qui Nguyen tells the story of how his parents met after escaping the Vietnam War and landing in the same resettlement camp in Arkansas. It's a tale of traumatic dis…
Director and artist Lars Jan turns a classic Joan Didion essay, "The White Album," into a multimedia performance work featuring Obie-winning actress Mia Barron.
Joan Didion's 1979 essay "The White Album" is both a classic of new journalism and an artifact of the tumultuous period it chronicles. Composed as a series of high-resolution prose snapshots…
Glenda Jackson stars in "King Lear" on Broadway with a cast of powerhouse actresses, including Jayne Houdyshell, Ruth Wilson and Elizabeth Marvel. But the modern, manic production, directed …
For his Broadway production of "King Lear," built around the one and only Glenda Jackson, director Sam Gold has decided to make use of every luxurious resource at his disposal " sometimes si…
Actor and playwright Heidi Schreck, former high school oratorical champion, brings her one woman show, "What the Constitution Means to Me," to Broadway at a time when her old championship to…
When actor and writer Heidi Schreck was a high school student in Wenatchee, Wash., she was racking up college tuition money by giving speeches on the majesty of the Constitution in contests …
The bottled-up fury of female caregivers grows to seismic proportions in "Marys Seacole," Jackie Sibblies Drury's new play that combines strands of theatrical DNA from Adrienne Kennedy and C…
At a time when the politics of identity has become a central subject of theatrical inquiry, it's only fitting that African American dramatists have been leading the charge. With their diverg…
Times critic Charles McNulty lays out the most promising theater for spring, including Wiest in Samuel Beckett's "Happy Days," Hnath's "Dana H.," Vardalos in "Tiny Beautiful Things" and the …
Ready for your catharsis? The forecast for the spring season calls for a hurricane of tears, shot through with just enough laughter to keep theatergoers from going off the deep end. Based on…
Sarah DeLappe's Pulitzer Prize finalist, "The Wolves," a drama about high school girl soccer players processing life's difficulties, large and small, gets a superb Echo Theater production di…
"The Wolves," Sarah DeLappe's stunning debut drama that was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, presents the world through the prism of girls soccer. The play, which is receiving a superb Echo Theate…
Robert O'Hara directs the world premiere of Inda Craig-Galván's play, which escapes into a comic book universe to grapple with an all too real American horror.
Robert O'Hara directs the world premiere of Inda Craig-Galván's play, which escapes into a comic book universe to grapple with an all too real American horror.