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200 stories by "Helen Shaw"

Laurie Metcalf's Stunning Return to Broadway in "Little Bear Ridge Road" by Helen Shaw

The playwright Samuel D. Hunter tailors a family drama to the actress's specific gifts; at Powerhouse: International, the artist Carolina Bianchi explores violence against women.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 31, 2025

Gospel Uplifts "Oratorio for Living Things" and "Oh Happy Day!" by Helen Shaw

Heather Christian and Jordan E. Cooper create two very different versions of spiritual inquiry.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 20, 2025

The Unexpected Sweetness of Bill and Ted's "Waiting for Godot" by Helen Shaw

The British buzz merchant Jamie Lloyd directs Alex Winter and Keanu Reeves in Samuel Beckett's 1954 tragicomedy; plus, "All Right. Good Night.," from Rimini Protokoll.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on October 2, 2025

Yasmina Reza's "Art" Feeds Our Appetite for Argument as Entertainment by Helen Shaw

Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris play friends who spar over almost everything.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on September 18, 2025

Tarell Alvin McCraney's "The Brothers Size" and Suzanne Bocanegra's "Honor" by Helen Shaw

A gifted cast elevates the poetic drama at the Shed.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on September 11, 2025

A Merry and Rambunctious "Twelfth Night" in Central Park by Helen Shaw

At the newly renovated Delacorte, Saheem Ali directs a celebrity-packed production that is comically inventive but rarely stirring.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on August 22, 2025

A Season of Unease at the Edinburgh Festival by Helen Shaw

In this year's offerings, the mood ranged from baffled sorrow to laughter in extremis, reflecting our unsettled times.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on August 17, 2025

Tennessee Williams in Williamstown by Helen Shaw

Jeremy O. Harris, at his first Williamstown Theatre Festival as creative director, turns up the heat under rare works by the great Southern playwright.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on July 25, 2025

Women Playwrights Lose the Limelight by Helen Shaw

After years of progress in diversity, many companies' upcoming slates feature mostly, and in some cases entirely, male-writer lineups. The backslide has prompted an outcry.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 1:11pm on July 22, 2025

"Prince Faggot" Sends Up Kink and Country by Helen Shaw

Jordan Tannahill's explicit new play fetishizes the British Royal Family but has more than sex on its mind.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on June 26, 2025

Jean Smart and John Krasinski Go It Alone, on Broadway and Off by Helen Shaw

"Call Me Izzy" and "Angry Alan" feature two stars up close and personal.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on June 13, 2025

Hugh Jackman and Liev Schreiber Star in a Pair of Psychosexual Slugfests by Helen Shaw

The spirit of August Strindberg infuses Hannah Moscovitch's "Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes" and Jen Silverman's adaptation of "Creditors."

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 3:23pm on May 25, 2025

Jeremy Jordan Mines "Floyd Collins" for Its Sonic Gems by Helen Shaw

Adam Guettel and Tina Landau's 1996 musical about a trapped caver resurfaces on Broadway, and Shayok Misha Chowdhury and Mona Pirnot play metaphysical games.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 1:54pm on April 28, 2025

The Show Can't Go On by Helen Shaw

Funding shifts at three of the largest philanthropic foundations have brought turbulence and uncertainty to the intricate New York support system for the performing arts.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 2:30pm on April 25, 2025

London Theatre Shimmers with Mirrors and Memory by Helen Shaw

New productions of Shakespeare's "Richard II," Annie Ernaux's "The Years," Robert Icke's "Manhunt," Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie," and more.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:32am on April 17, 2025

Retro Masculinity on Broadway, in "Glengarry Glen Ross" and "Good Night, and Good Luck" by Helen Shaw

Kieran Culkin and Bob Odenkirk try to close the deal in David Mamet's classic, and George Clooney stars in a timely portrait of media courage.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:05am on April 4, 2025

An Overpriced "Othello" Goes Splat on Broadway by Helen Shaw

Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and "The Trojans," a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end zone.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:32am on March 28, 2025

"Purpose" on Broadway and "Vanya" Downtown by Helen Shaw

Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 9:42am on March 20, 2025

Sarah Snook's Wilde Adventure by Helen Shaw

The Australian actress, best known for her work on "Succession," brings all twenty-six characters in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to Broadway.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:20am on March 16, 2025

The playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard Try to Go Home Again by Helen Shaw

Fifty years apart, the playwrights Samuel D. Hunter and Sam Shepard examine our national obsession with family inheritance.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 3:48pm on February 28, 2025

"Hugh Jackman LIVE" and "Beckett Briefs" Make a Spectacle of Time's Passage by Helen Shaw

In two new shows, the Oscar-nominated, Tony Award-winning star and F. Murray Abraham play against their younger selves.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 10:11am on January 31, 2025

Helen Shaw Reviews Sanaz Toossi's "English," on Broadway by Helen Shaw

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a language.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 8:55am on January 24, 2025

Audra McDonald Triumphs in "Gypsy" on Broadway by Helen Shaw

In the latest revival of Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne's iconic musical, George C. Wolfe humanizes a famously monstrous stage mother.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 11:40am on December 21, 2024

The Best Theatre of 2024 by Helen Shaw

This year's standout productions ran the gamut from outrageously fabulous to quasi-religious in feeling.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on December 20, 2024

A Scathing Family Drama by Leslye Headland Comes to Broadway by Helen Shaw

Two scathing new productions satisfy our hunger for dysfunction-driven entertainment.

SOURCE: The New Yorker Subscription at 6:00am on December 13, 2024
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