916 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
"A Scythe of Time," "Icon" and "Eh Dah? Questions for My Father" investigate themes of death, love and cultural identity in funny and moving ways.
Lisa Wolpe's one-woman show, "Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender," weaves together memoir and passages from the playwright's work.
Natalie Margolin's play centers on three female college roommates whose bonds are tested by the strict rules they use for dating in the digital age.
These revivals, presented by the Potomac Theater Project, speak to contemporary politics and cultural debate.
This play wants to be many things, most of all a commentary on the American Dream, but it is dreamlike in the wrong way.
In just four years, Eric Tucker and Andrus Nichols's New York-based company has become a critical darling. It's also keeping them busier than ever.
The director and designer prepares his new show, "Paradiso: Chapter 1," a suspense thriller that is also a game.
In this outdoor production of a Shakespeare classic, audience members follow the actors around through the park.
By performing it multiple times in rapid succession, flexCO turns a 17th-century farce inside out.
The Radio City show's aim seems to be selling tickets to people who would rather sit back and watch a sanitized simulation of the city.
In "The Iceman Lab, " a four-act rethinking of "The Iceman Cometh" at Here, the mood at that depressing saloon has really livened up.
"The Taming of the Shrew," now at the Delacorte Theater, reminds women of their duty to their husbands. Here's a take from a critic " and how some female directors view it.
This play, directed by Kristin Marting, emphasizes love and mourning through a collage of real online posts.
Deploying visceral images and sounds, this production at Montclair State University is a radical transfiguration of the Moses story.
Arguments among intellectuals take precedence in Mac Rogers's play, set in Czechoslovakia in the years after World War I and overstuffed with ideas.
This Jonathan Brielle musical retells the story of James Joyce and Nora Barnacle as a couple and as early-20th-century iconoclasts.
Sigrid Gilmer blends time travel with runaway slaves in this comedy at the Robert Moss Theater, which features a heroic yet human Harriet Tubman.
Mr. Albo's new solo show, at Dixon Place, relates his immersion in the world of clinics and blood tests when he agrees to help his best friend become pregnant.
The Irondale Ensemble explores four plays that he was writing in 1599.
This sung-through show at Axis Theater, from Randy Sharp and Paul Carbonara, looks and sounds good, but the story is a murk of confusion.
Performance Space 122, a center of arts innovation, is offering a mobile tour of sites related to creative performance in the neighborhood.
Created with the director Rebecca Taichman, "Indecent" is inspired by Sholem Asch's Yiddish play "The God of Vengeance."
Jordan Jaffe's dark new eco-comedy stars Nico Tortorella as a callous young oil heir worried that his life may be ruined by a Gulf of Mexico spill.
Structured as a response to Dostoyevsky, this production pares the cast to four.
This Sarah Gancher play, set in Budapest, features a group deciding whether to fight a shutdown just as their country is shifting to the right.
