916 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
Boris Akunin's take on Shakespeare's broody prince is full of intrigue, but it often feels like a "Hamlet" highlight reel.
Ms. Wiest plays the beleaguered but unbowed heroine of this Beckett comedy.
Live performance is a most direct way to make the fear and heartbreak palpable.
It takes nerve to follow up on Ibsen. But "A Doll's House, Part 2" is hardly the first Broadway show to check in with beloved characters.
This Pulitzer-winning playwright finally gets her due, with a retelling of a controversial 1923 play that featured Broadway's first stage kiss between two women.
A young couple's engagement brings cultural tensions to the surface between secular and fundamentalist families. Yet not all is as it seems.
After a lonely upbringing, Obi Abili made his way to acting. Now he's winning raves off Broadway in the title role of "The Emperor Jones."
The new play by Martin Sherman concerns an intergenerational romance between men played by Harvey Fierstein and Gabriel Ebert.
The narrator of Courtney Baron's playreacts with horror when she learns an ex-boyfriend is responsible for a mass shooting.
Irish Repertory Theater has brought back Ciaran O'Reilly's revelatory production of O'Neill's 1920 play, with an almost entirely new cast.
In "946: The Amazing Story of Adolphus Tips," Emma Rice directs a fanciful adaptation of another novel by Michael Morpurgo, the author of "War Horse."
Featuring dance numbers, This Is Not a Theater Company's buoyant daydream of a show is set in a pool on the East Side of Manhattan. Acoustics are a challenge.
Kate Hamill and Eric Tucker team up for another Off Broadway adaptation, this time taking on a novel of social satire.
In Stephen Adly Guirgis's play, directed by Estelle Parsons at La MaMa, Satan's arrival unleashes magic.
Stephan Wolfert's one-man show, "Cry Havoc!," explores a surprising psychic space where Shakespeare and military experience intersect.
Phillip Howze's play, at the Bushwick Starr in Brooklyn, is an absurdist take on the cultural imperialism of tourists visiting a developing country.
The struggle to get by in today's economy is a tension central to this play by James Anthony Tyler from the Labyrinth Theater Company.
Abigail Breslin stars as a love-struck teenager in this play written and directed by Erica Schmidt.
The play, by Bryna Turner, is inspired by letters between Mary Woolley, a president of Mount Holyoke College, and Jeannette Marks.
An honorably discharged private is at the center of this morality play inspired by Dante's "The Divine Comedy."
Wilder's "The Skin of Our Teeth" made its Broadway premiere in 1942. It's back, again, with fresh resonance.
At City Center, an irresistible Huckleberry Finn but no new insights into the questions of race and responsibility that his story always raises.
A new woman in town is really the Greek god Dionysus incarnated as a gardener with a mission in this eco-play at Two River Theater in New Jersey.
An 11-day celebration of puppet-related stage productions in Chicago, and shows elsewhere, have showed the possibilities of an art form.
Mr. Roxburgh stars as Mikhail in "The Present," a Chekhov adaptation that floats along on a vodka tide, at the Ethel Barrymore Theater.
