902 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
Tim Curry and colleagues recall the musical's misadventure at the Belasco Theater in 1975.
Enda Walsh's formal experiment, at St. Ann's Warehouse, finds him in pared-back mode.
Todd Almond wrote an oral history on Conor McPherson's "Girl From the North Country" and its passage through Broadway's pandemic shutdown.
Matthew Gasda directs his new play, which was inspired by Sam Altman's 2023 ouster from OpenAI.
With their Tent Theater Company, Tim Sanford and Aimée Hayes want to raise the profiles of older artists and keep them from being sidelined.
Also onstage in February: Calista Flockhart in a Sam Shepard revival, boldface names in Joy Behar's "My First Ex-Husband" and a marionette made of ice.
Three new plays onstage in Manhattan, "Kowalski," "Mrs. Loman" and "Nina," mine treasures of theater history.
Shakespeare's overstuffed late play gets an entertaining refresh Off Broadway, where Irish Rep is also offering a program of Samuel Beckett shorts.
In a new solo play about ordinary people under bombardment in Gaza, a woman rehearses how she would escape her building if Israeli forces were to strike.
Mischa Berlinski's shrewd comic novel finds a veteran actress reconnecting with her deposed mentor while facing the challenge of playing Cleopatra.
Onstage, the flip-side of filial devotion has often been contempt. But a wave of forceful and multidimensional mothers suggests that may be changing.
Several festivals, including Under the Radar, are bringing a tantalizing breadth of new work to stages across New York.
Thornton Wilder's classic, starring Jim Parsons, wraps up, as does Leslye Headland's angsty family drama. Catch these and other plays while you can.
Pernicious patterns figure heavily in two thought-provoking plays on small Manhattan stages.
In a just sweet enough production with a strong cast, the "View" host delivers a performance that reaffirms her savvy as a comic actor.
Making his Broadway debut as the show's Emcee, the singer is reveling in what he calls "a thinking piece of musical theater."
Box-office sales, discount booths, same-day rush: Here's everything you need to know about nabbing seats to plays and musicals in Manhattan.
A guide to every show on Broadway, including new musicals, Tony winning-dramas, quirky hits and veterans like "Hamilton" and "Chicago."
The musical, starring Grey Henson, has gotten Buddy delightfully, entirely right. But he is trapped inside a creaky adaptation.
Many Tony Award-winning musicals and starry plays (Robert Downey Jr., anyone?) are wrapping up their runs in January. Catch them while you can.
Tiago Rodrigues's play is intentionally a work of provocation, but it is also stylized to create a helpful distance from events and ideas.
In this first-date comedy, Michael Zegen and Heléne Yorke play people who might just be willing to settle for each other.
In "Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!," Alina Troyano and her former student Branden Jacobs-Jenkins explore the ways art made by one person can live inside others.
Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher star in this quasi romantic comedy adapted from Ephron's memoir, which went deeper into her illness and grief.
The writer Erika Sheffer takes a big swing in a Manhattan Theater Club production examining "the point at which a society finds itself on the brink."
