902 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
While full of fine shows, a long-awaited binge was also full of stress about how loosely audiences followed rules about staying healthy in a pandemic.
Five Asian American actors, all over 60, deliver monologues that touch on grief and heritage, on adult children and cultural cancellation.
In this D.H. Lawrence play, a production by the Mint Theater, men are trouble, "pure and simple."
The actor will be making his New York stage debut with Jamie Lloyd's Olivier Award-winning production, coming in April to the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
Arin Arbus and John Douglas Thompson are collaborating on their fifth play, a Theater for a New Audience production that begins previews Saturday.
The return of this brisk, smart provocation of a monologue is a cheering development, all the more so because it's a belly-laugh funny show.
This opera, by Mac and Matt Ray, is as much a celebration of theater itself as it is an example of the communion humans crave but have been deprived of.
Theaterlab stages a gimlet-eyed romance involving a girl and a young Nazi soldier in Occupied France by the playwright Rita Kalnejais.
With one play closed, Nottage can focus on "MJ" on Broadway and "Intimate Apparel" at Lincoln Center Theater. And maybe even catch her breath.
The experience of Jews who fled Germany in 1939 aboard the St. Louis luxury liner is the subject of a new production from the Arlekin Players Theater.
The pandemic shutdown gave the actor time to reconnect with his clarinet, helping him fully realize his character, a lost-in-grief musician.
Our critic didn't set out to see "Caroline, or Change" seven times, but amid so much uncertainty the show turned out to be just what she needed.
At the Irish Repertory Theater, this musical confection is a luridly entertaining tale, set mostly in 1857, about a villainous banker and his wily clerk.
Idina Menzel and a hummable pop score can't camouflage the fact that this musical is half-baked. Still, it can make for an enjoyable evening, our critic writes.
Mark Shanahan remixes Arthur Conan Doyle and Charles Dickens into a clever, crowd-pleasing holiday comedy that happens also to be a murder mystery.
He wrote great shows, but Stephen Sondheim was also a mentor, a teacher and an audience regular. And, oh, the thrill of getting one of his typewritten notes.
Whether it's the emotion coursing through Enda Walsh's plays or the energy pulsing through the streets of New York, the star of "Medicine" is picking it up.
Annie Ryan's stage adaptation of the Eimear McBride novel is given a lucid and intimate revival at the Irish Repertory Theater.
In Mansa Ra's heart-bruised new play, racism is a lethal force that menaces generations of Black American men.
The production lacks the power to unsettle despite a fine cast of killers and wannabes who changed, or at least made, history gunning for presidents.
The first post-shutdown live performance at New York Theater Workshop is almost a debriefing after the crisis we have endured.
The Olivier Award winner stars in "Caroline, or Change" in a role that pays tribute to "all Black women trying to make their way through this life."
The Irish Repertory Theater returns to live performances with a domestic tragicomedy by Kevin Barry.
The play, tracing the rise and fall of the fabled financiers, finally opens on Broadway after successful runs in London and at the Park Avenue Armory.
The daring Manhattan theater reopens this month with a gorgeous puppet festival, proving it has lost none of its nerve during the pandemic.
