916 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
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.
"Have I No Mouth," part of P.S. 122's Coil Festival, puts a mother, a son and their psychotherapist on stage in an exploration of loss.
In "I Could Say More," a play written by and starring Chuck Blasius at the Hudson Guild Theater, a writer's beach house party devolves into tumult.
"Muazzez" takes a Mac Wellman short story and turns it into a monologue.
Squonk Opera's "Mayhem and Majesty" tries to answer a question: "What does music look like?"
"La Divina Caricatura" at La MaMa finds Lee Breuer and Mabou Mines exploring an interspecies love story.
The wife of Cole Porter has her say in "Love, Linda," at the York Theater Company.
In "Black Wizard/Blue Wizard," a musical and a battle, two forces vie for the chance to defeat the Great Mediocrity.
In "Mary-Kate Olsen Is in Love," Grace is a 27-year-old who craves distraction from her disillusionment, and that's when the Olsen twins arrive.
In "The (curious case of the) Watson Intelligence," now at Playwrights Horizon, Madeleine George explores how people have tried to circumvent the uncertainty of relationships with technology…
"This Is My Office" is a semiautobiographical solo play in which a man contemplates the complicated relationship he had with his father.
"Water," from the British companies Filter Theater and Lyric Hammersmith, pours creative light and sound into a multicharacter tale about the environment.
David Harewood, Orlando Bloom and other actors tell how they meet the technical demands of performing Shakespeare.
