206 stories by "Helen Shaw"
Sondheim's music and lyrics gleam as bright as ever, even when the production loses its edge.
Ben Platt stars as the doomed Leo Frank in Alfred Uhry and Jason Robert Brown's all too relevant musical tragedy.
Jamie Lloyd's ascetic production of Ibsen's 1879 drama eliminates nearly every conventional marker of character, location, or gesture.
Nathan Lane and Danny Burstein rely on shtick in Sharr White's adaptation of Larry Sultan's book, while Norbert Leo Butz can't save the musical "Cornelia Street."
The actor, a fixture of New York's experimental-theatre scene, did not "become" his characters; he stood, somehow, next to them, amused and delighted.
In "Small Talk," "Without You," and "cryptochrome," Colin Quinn, Anthony Rapp, and Evan Silver take the mike.
Recent shows' visions of the future haven't exactly been post-apocalyptic, with the violence and darkness that term implies. Instead, they have delighted in our disappearance, savored it.
Getting lost with "Orlando," "My Neighbour Totoro," and "The Burnt City."
The playwright and author discusses preshow rituals, throbbing anger, tenderness, and her new play, "Becky Nurse of Salem."
Brilliant casting and a palpable sense of joy make old stories feel new.
Even when the scenes drag, the songs soar.
Will Arbery tackles the climate crisis with a funny nightmare about human and environmental fragility.
Mia Chung's drama, by turns comedic, bitter, and ineffable, shows how racism soaks through an American family.
In a full-tilt production at BAM, Lars Eidinger gives the sad prince a punk, chaotic edge and turns familiar tragedy into Dionysian revel.
A stage adaptation, at BAM, crams Hanya Yanagihara's sprawling novel into a single evening"not without some violence.
The director Kenny Leon puts a realistic spin on Suzan-Lori Parks's allegorical tour de force.
LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs a stunning encore of August Wilson's most enigmatic work.
Debate and democracy in "1776" and "Baldwin and Buckley at Cambridge."
A crowded portrait of a glittering prewar Jewish milieu exorcises the playwright's own ghosts.
David Greenspan turns Gertrude Stein's "Four Saints in Three Acts" into a solo tour de force.
Mad kings and shadow puppets feature in the experimental-theatre pieces "My Onliness" and "This and That."
"As You Like It" brings music, high jinks, and community to Shakespeare's sometimes resistant comedy.
In 2003, the Mint produced Lawrence's 1913 drama The Daughter-in-Law; in 2009, it was the bleaker The Widowing of Mrs. Holroyd. Now they return to The Daughter-in-Law, a strange and compelli…
The downtown theater company is in crisis.
Michael Riedel's "Singular Sensation" tracks the blockbuster successes of the 1990s.
