916 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
The actor David Greenspan is a tour-de-force, taking on all the roles of Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thomson's large-cast opera from 1934, sans music.
Steven Fechter's "The Memory Exam" begins with a promising setup, our critic writes, while Grant MacDermott's marriage story "Jasper" struggles for emotional resonance.
In the solo play "Remember This," David Strathairn portrays Jan Karski, a witness to the Nazi genocide during World War II.
Cameron Darwin Bossert's smart new play fictionalizes a 1941 labor dispute to explore the tension between passions and paychecks.
Two young men wander the city before they both must say farewell and return to very different lives.
Johnny G. Lloyd's new play about a solitaire champion examines talent, ambition and the rising stakes of success when you're Black.
The experimental theater maker Aya Ogawa ponders her distant father as well as failure and forgiveness in "The Nosebleed" at Lincoln Center Theater.
Anastasia Hille is riveting as Klytemnestra in Robert Icke's production of "Oresteia" at the Park Avenue Armory.
With age-blind casting at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, two actors who have been married for 38 years play the teenage leads.
This vaudevillian show at La MaMa in Manhattan is like a party where weed is the guest of honor, thrown by ardent, uncritical hosts.
At the Williamstown Theater Festival, Daniel Fish's "Most Happy in Concert" confounds and Anna Ouyang Moench's "Man of God" raises it own question.
The 81-year-old actress stars as an eccentric dinner party host. When she was a teenager, though, wanting to act was a secret she didn't dare tell.
A new Off Broadway musical, based on the best-selling young adult novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, is uneven but sweet, our critic writes.
At an uptown amphitheater, the Classical Theater of Harlem stages Shakespeare's comedy with fizzy delight.
Patrick Stewart, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Tina Landau and Tim Robbins on being challenged and inspired by the legendary theater maker, who died last weekend.
She breathes, coughs and mourns, and now the cow puppet that captured hearts in the Encores! "Into the Woods" revival is on Broadway.
A young boarder's plan to make a new life in Australia unsettles a staid British family in Elizabeth Baker's 1909 play, revived by the Mint Theater Company.
The writer James Baldwin and the poet Nikki Giovanni are at the center of a crackling work of verbatim theater at the Vineyard Theater.
Jessica Hecht, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Chekhov himself too often get overwhelmed by this ambitious Arlekin Players Theater adaptation.
The new play, about a 15-year-old girl and her impending quinceañera, creates a fitting party vibe. If only the script didn't clarify every cultural reference.
Josh Azouz's vivid, nightmarish play at Astoria Performing Arts Center in Queens is a hallucinatory tale about two refugees and a talkative infant.
A cast of three recount the gripping drama of the death of a teenager by the Dutch police in 2012.
In this sweet, spoofy romp of a musical comedy, Romeo awakens from a 400-year slumber and follows a Juliet look-alike to Brooklyn.
This New York City Children's Theater adaptation of Maya Angelou's celebrated memoir faces the challenge of faithfully telling a story that encompasses a great deal of pain.
Theater has always been a team sport. But this Covid-stalked Broadway season has made clear that a prize for the entire cast should be added.
