206 stories by "Helen Shaw"
It's been the year of Molière, and therefore the year of the liar, the hypocrite, the poseur, the clown.
Helen Shaw reviews "Marjorie Prime," with June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein,
It was a banner year for generation-defining performance, both up- and downtown.
The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking.
"Coyote," a new biography by Robert M. Dowling, recounts how the cowboy laureate of American theatre invented himself.
The Broadway veteran stars as a Marie Antoinette wannabe in a musical about excess, and Anne Washburn goes post-apocalyptic with "The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire."
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.
Heather Christian and Jordan E. Cooper create two very different versions of spiritual inquiry.
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.
Bobby Cannavale, James Corden, and Neil Patrick Harris play friends who spar over almost everything.
A gifted cast elevates the poetic drama at the Shed.
At the newly renovated Delacorte, Saheem Ali directs a celebrity-packed production that is comically inventive but rarely stirring.
In this year's offerings, the mood ranged from baffled sorrow to laughter in extremis, reflecting our unsettled times.
Jeremy O. Harris, at his first Williamstown Theatre Festival as creative director, turns up the heat under rare works by the great Southern playwright.
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.
Jordan Tannahill's explicit new play fetishizes the British Royal Family but has more than sex on its mind.
"Call Me Izzy" and "Angry Alan" feature two stars up close and personal.
The spirit of August Strindberg infuses Hannah Moscovitch's "Sexual Misconduct of the Middle Classes" and Jen Silverman's adaptation of "Creditors."
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.
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.
New productions of Shakespeare's "Richard II," Annie Ernaux's "The Years," Robert Icke's "Manhunt," Tennessee Williams's "The Glass Menagerie," and more.
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.
Denzel Washington and Jake Gyllenhaal lack direction, and "The Trojans," a spirited football-themed Iliad, heads for the end zone.
Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's latest offers another family battle royale, and Andrew Scott dazzles in a one-man tour de force.
The Australian actress, best known for her work on "Succession," brings all twenty-six characters in "The Picture of Dorian Gray" to Broadway.
