903 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
The young cast members of "The Mysteries" at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa perform free, while holding down or looking for jobs by day.
Lucas Kavner's surprising and very funny new play, "Carnival Kids," directed by Stephen Brackett, is part a reckoning of a father-son relationship.
"Los Monólogos de la Vagina," a version of Eve Ensler's work in Spanish, is using the typical rotating-cast format in its run at the Westside Theater.
"The Sonic Life of a Giant Tortoise" features characters who admit that their worlds could use more spark.
The Vakhtangov State Academic Theater's "Eugene Onegin" at City Center is a play with music and dance, composed of scenes from the Pushkin novel in verse.
The Drilling Company's streamlined, audience-friendly, "Hamlet" kicks off the free Bryant Park Shakespeare season.
"Under My Skin," a body-swapping comedy at the Little Shubert Theater, may bring on flashbacks from your cinematic past, circa the Reagan administration.
A fragile out-of-work actress moves into her widowed friend's home and becomes entangled with her friend's son, in "A Loss of Roses."
"17 Orchard Point," by Anton Dudley and Stephanie DiMaggio, is no heartwarming parent-child love fest.
In "Peddling," written and performed by Harry Melling, a young man tries to scratch out a living selling "life's essentials" door to door.
John Noble, the Australian actor perhaps best known for his roles in "Lord of the Rings" and the TV series "Fringe," is making his New York theater debut in "The Substance of Fire."
In Oni Faida Lampley's semi-autobiographical play, the mother of a newborn and her family deal with breast cancer.
A conversation with LaTanya Richardson Jackson, Anika Noni Rose and Sophie Okonedo, now starring with Denzel Washington in the Broadway revival of Lorraine Hansberry's drama.
"Ubu Sings Ubu" mixes a Google Translate version of the 1896 scatological satire "Ubu Roi" with songs by the experimental rock band Pere Ubu.
The Brits Off Broadway festival brings a double bill of "A Respectable Widow Takes to Vulgarity" and "Clean" to 59E59 Theaters.
Ed Sylvanus Iskandar needed four dozen playwrights to create "The Mysteries," almost six hours of brand-new Bible stories based on an English medieval tradition.
In "Jasper in Deadland," Matt Doyle charms his way into the underworld to find his dead best friend.
Dan Hoyle's solo show "The Real Americans" channels America's just plain folks with compassion and respect, even as it comments on our national inability to understand one another. &nbs…
Billed as a comedy, "The Shape of Something Squashed" means in part to gibe the ruthless self-absorption of successful artists, but it also offers a portrait of an actor as an almost invisib…
"London Wall," a 1931 office comedy by John van Druten, depicts the limited choices available to working women then.
The singer-songwriter Jonatha Brooke, who wrote "My Mother Has 4 Noses," performs it at the Duke on 42nd Street.
In its world premiere at Irish Repertory Theater, "Transport" floats along on the strength of a fiddle- and flute-filled score, but lacks emotional depth.
In "Sotto Voce," an 80-year-old recluse is led by a researcher into reliving her first love, who was a passenger aboard an ill-fated ship of Jewish refugees in 1939.
In "Actress Fury," a dance-theater piece at the Bushwick Starr, three performers join in playing a single striving actress.
In "The Wong Kids" at LaMama's Ellen Stewart Theater, siblings find super powers to fight off the bullies.
