200 stories by "Helen Shaw"
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.
A new leader is about to take over from the Williamsburg theater's founders. A festival there now offers a sense of her transgressive, slightly bonkers vision (sour cream included).
Despite the lack of a samovar and wistful-looking birches, Aaron Posner's engaging Life Sucks."the period is part of the title"is closely mapped onto Anton Chekhov's Uncle Vanya. In the haze…
Beauty isn't in the eye of the beholder here. It's an accepted, incontrovertible truth that Akim is without blemish or fault, which is why vengeful Massassi (Antoinette Crowe-Legacy), sweet …
Three houses are built into the title of Marcus Gardley's superheated New Orleans drama The House That Will Not Stand. The first is the sumptuous Creole maison onstage, with high shuttered w…
Despite high ticket prices, many actors are still fighting for pay equity, with negotiations ongoing and some claiming their careers are financially impossibleFor many of us, there's a time …
Banana Bag & Bodice revives rocked-out Beowulf
