903 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
Amanda Palmer's secret weapon for ART's "Cabaret"? Her high school mentor.
Theater 4the People's new play, about a crumbling church and the people trying to hold it together, takes place in a church on the Upper West Side.
Jess Burkle's larkish adaptation of Molière's "Don Juan," at the Pearl Theater, features modern colloquial language and a loud-spoken costume.
Don Nguyen's play at Anderson Hall was inspired by a newspaper article about H.I.V.-positive women in Vietnam, but is most successful when it strays away from the source material.
Five young New Yorkers are featured in Ping Chong + Company's new work of interview-based theater at LaGuardia Performing Arts Center in Long Island City, Queens.
The death by poison of the "Ziegfeld Follies" beauty in Paris in 1920 is the subject of an immersive theater piece at the Liberty Theater.
The new Theater Breaking Through Barriers production at the Clurman Theater opens with a dead body in a wheelchair.
The show employs satire without the bite of meanspiritedness.
The characters in a new play say almost nothing, an exercise in mindfulness that was both challenging and relieving for its writer.
Tuta Theater Chicago brings a work by the French playwright Jean-Luc Lagarce to 59E59 Theaters.
Ms. Mirza's play " full of emotions, conflicts and other military-related issues " intends to educate theatergoers.
Theater is always full of chance-taking and excitement, never more so than the first time a show has a preview.
Ferenc Molnar's play, a romantic comedy that came to Broadway in 1922, revolves around a tenderhearted Budapest clothier and his road back to happiness.
The play, which examines the aftermath of a mass shooting at a choir rehearsal, uses local choruses who volunteer to be a part of the show.
"The Nomad," from Elizabeth Swados and Erin Courtney, follows the journey of a Western woman who finds freedom posing as a man in North Africa.
Ms. Henley's play, in a revival by the Actors Company Theater, is a rare western in which women are the stars.
In a revival of this Clifford Odets play, directed by Dan Wackerman, the protagonist dreams of a less soul-sucking life, yet lacks the courage to try to build one.
Ronald Keaton portrays Winston Churchill in reflecting on that former British prime minister's anecdote-rich life.
In "Texas in Paris," Lillias White and Scott Wakefield play very different singers on a music tour in France.
"Zero Hour: Tokyo Rose's Last Tape" focuses on a young Japanese-American who becomes branded as an Axis propagandist.
An Off Broadway production of the bio-musical about Shlomo Carlebach will close on Sunday.
Halley Feiffer's new play, "I'm Gonna Pray for You So Hard," focuses on an actress and her better-known father, a situation she knows firsthand.
In the play "Wyoming," a family gets uncomfortable reminders when a son arrives for Thanksgiving.
The Broadway veteran Tom Hewitt plays a disarming psychopath in "Another Medea," a monologue written by Aaron Mark.
"The Woodsman," an ambitious production from James Ortiz, uses spare dialogue, omnipresent music and fanciful puppets to tell the Tin Man's back story.
