206 stories by "Helen Shaw"
Sarah Gancher's "Russian Troll Farm" and Sasha Denisova's "My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion" look for truth in a world of lies.
With "Bark of Millions," "Oh, Mary!," and "Aristotle Thinks Again," the fabulousness on New York's stages seems to have reached a critical mass.
At the first rehearsal for Suzanne Bocanegra's "Bodycast," Ruth Negga practices playing Bocanegra, who practices sitting onstage and muttering lines to Negga.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury turns to fine-grained realism in his extraordinary bilingual drama.
The playwright Joshua Harmon broaches profound questions of Jewish identity in his drama, but a bigger stage and a changed moment reveal its flaws.
Remembering the activism and artistry of a New York theatre hero.
Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright's "Appropriate" investigates a dysfunctional Southern family's buried secrets.
Property and its discontents vex "Manahatta" and "Life & Times of Michael K."
The R. & B. titan shares a fictionalized version of her coming of age.
"FOOD," "Redwood," and "Faust (The Broken Show)" mask serious intent behind laughter.
Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel's stately "Translations."
The critic, professor, producer, and author was a pugilistic champion of the stage.
The writer David Ives and the director Joe Mantello continued without the late composer on an adaptation of two lacerating Luis Buñuel films.
Two new intergenerational sagas, by Nathan Alan Davis and Javier Antonio González, explore the American legacy.
Dmitry Krymov starts from scratch in New York.
Rebecca Gilman and Theresa Rebeck use plants as metaphors for human flourishing in their latest works.
The playwright's exquisite new comic drama, "Infinite Life," nails the absurdity of having a body.
The new Broadway play, by Ian Shaw and Joseph Nixon, imagines frequently irritable chats among the movie's three main actors, including Shaw's father, Robert Shaw.
David Byrne's electro-pop Imelda Marcos is a series of hard, mirrored surfaces.
Helen Shaw reviews Robert Icke's adaptation of an Arthur Schnitzler play, starring Juliet Stevenson as a doctor who is a target of anti-Semitism and language policing.
"Operation Mincemeat," "Guys and Dolls," and "The Motive and the Cue" gallop into the past.
James Grissom says that he met the playwright and his famous muses, and quoted them extensively in his work. Not everyone believes him.
David Byrne and Fatboy Slim's "Here Lies Love" on Broadway, Ato Blankson-Wood's "Hamlet" in the Park, Robert Icke's "The Doctor," and more.
In a new production of "Camelot," reimagined by Aaron Sorkin and directed by Bartlett Sher, Arthur is more perfect than ever. But this iteration of the hero's kingdom isn't worthy of him.
Experimental theatre and soap tropes commune in Julia Izumi's "Regretfully, So the Birds Are" and Michael R. Jackson's "White Girl in Danger."
