300 stories by "JASON ZINOMAN"
“What the Public Wants,” Arnold Bennett’s 1909 play about the newspaper business, has resonance for today.
Theater in the Dark, With Lights, a mini-festival in which three of his works are receiving short runs, provides an opportunity to judge whether Ashlin Halfnight has arrived.
Haunted houses are a booming national industry, and in New York this theatrical genre has become an artistically fertile scene.
More and more playwrights are writing for television, and in many ways this is a good thing for theater.
“My Last Play” by Ed Schmidt takes place in Mr. Schmidt’s living room in Carroll Gardens.
A stage adaptation of Philip K. Dick’s “Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?” unfolds at the 3LD Art @ Technology Center.
As shows by troupes like the Civilians inch closer to journalism, questions are raised about their responsibility to journalistic standards.
In “Lay of the Land,” Tim Miller ruminates on gay politics, using various snapshots from his childhood and his travels.
Inspector Sands, a smartly off-kilter British company, is making an attention-getting introduction to New York with two shows in repertory.
“My Last Play” by Ed Schmidt takes place in Mr. Schmidt’s living room in Carroll Gardens.
In a revival of “Jet Lag,” the Builders Association builds a new virtual world and then travels through it.
Jordan Harrison’s “Futura” is a thought-provoking drama that does not live up to its potential.
Scott Zigler will direct "The Shawl" and "Prairie du Chien" Off Broadway.
Elizabeth Reaser and Justin Bartha play spouses who follow the precepts of Christian Domestic Discipline.
Lisa D'Amour's huge, atmospheric party of a play features bartenders, hustlers, strippers and other denizens of the city.
The Annoyance Theater, long a staple of the Chicago improv scene, has brought comedy theater to Brooklyn.
Cush Jumbo brings her solo show "Josephine and I" to New York, playing the American performer Josephine Baker.
As Mr. David's opening night for "Fish in the Dark" approaches, he bemoans the play's enormous advance ticket sales as "a terrible thing."
What distinguishes acts like Sebastian Maniscalco's is a full-bodied commitment to the act-out: stand-up jargon describing a shift from narrating a joke to acting it.
Larry David's new comedy, "Fish in the Dark," has established itself as the blockbuster new play of the spring season even before it begins.
January is when a glut of downtown festivals descend on New York with strange, daring and often thrilling international shows.
"Every Brilliant Thing" arrives in New York with lots of good reviews and a high concept that sounds a bit mawkish.
The New York Deaf Theater presents "The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" with a cast that signs the dialogue.
Young Jean Lee's new play, "Straight White Men," comes to the Public Theater.
"Father Comes Home From Wars (Parts 1, 2 & 3)" is a new drama by the Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks.
