A Year of Mourning Steeped in African Tradition Leads to a Theater Piece
Kaneza Schaal's mourning for her father's death led her to create "Go Forth," a performance and installation piece opening at Westbeth Artists Community.
Kaneza Schaal's mourning for her father's death led her to create "Go Forth," a performance and installation piece opening at Westbeth Artists Community.
The Broadway star on the year she's had, how cancer has changed her outlook and why she's talking publicly about her illness.
The group still performs its signature brand of entertainment at the theater, a space where the company has been performing since 1991.
Mario Diament's play, at Theater for the New City, is partly based on the life of Yulie Cohen, an Israeli who sought to forgive a Palestinian involved in the attack that injured her.
This double bill of one-acts by Thornton Wilder traces 90 years in the life of a family over a dinner table, and invites audience participation during a fictional train trip.
This grab bag at the Barrow Group has a though-provoking start, an exhilarating finish and a few weak spots, Laura Collins-Hughes writes.
Austin Pendleton has directed this version, at the Cherry Lane Studio, in which Torvald Helmer is startlingly different from what is expected.
This interactive comedy-mystery opens in New York, following its decades-long run in Boston.
The language has been an integral part of life for Mr. Hoffman and Ms. Toren, who star in a New Yiddish Rep production of the Arthur Miller play.
As in the word game, the audience is asked to help fill in the blanks " a license to go a little lowbrow " in this show at New World Stages.
Soomi Kim and Suzi Takahashi recount the life and death of Kathy Change, a political protester who died in 1996, in a work at Here Arts Center.
The company Gare St. Lazare Ireland has adapted this short story into a minimalist play consisting of a monologue.
New Yiddish Rep is performing Arthur Miller's play at the Castillo Theater.
Mr. Takei's memories of his family's imprisonment in the United States during World War II inspired the Broadway musical "Allegiance."
This theater festival produced by Anne Hamburger at Hudson River Park in Chelsea presents new works by younger artists.
Matthew Coffey, the daughter of the actress Julia Coffey, was involved in similar government operations as the one outlined in the play.
Five employees of Financial Bank report to work every day, even though their customers have vanished, in this production by Animals Performance Group.
This play, which starts its director, Ms. Turner, centers on a lesbian couple and a possible gender change
Kevin Armento's play follows an affair between a high school boy and his algebra teacher from the perspective of the boy's self-aware cellphone.
Genevieve Hulme-Beaman's solo play, in which she stars, is part of the Origin Theater Company's 1st Irish festival at 59E59 Theaters.
Matthew-Lee Erlbach's play centers on two gay men seeking to have a child, and a prospective birth mother who ends up having an affair with one of them.
Donal O'Kelly's "Little Thing, Big Thing" is not the moldy old caper you might expect.
The Women's Voices Theater Festival, which runs through Nov. 22, will present 56 world-premiere productions at 51 participating theaters.
This multimedia work blends fiction and reality as it speaks to the power of artists to incite action with images.
"Persona" and "After the Rehearsal," both directed by Ivo van Hove, have their American premieres at the FringeArts festival.