916 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
Conceived before the pandemic, Andy Field's ode to sharing space in person glosses over the ways our everyday habits seem to have changed for good.
The Classical Theater of Harlem follows up last year's winning "Twelfth Night" with a sequel that feels like a sweet summer frolic.
Unrequited love swirls through this prestige-cast production of Anton Chekhov's play, in a Manhattan loft.
"The Cottage" is a throwback play with a modern mind-set. The cast, playwright and director talk about pulling off the comedy and landing all the "darlings."
As part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, Nikhil Parmar's solo play is a drama-tinged satire that morphs into a grisly revenge parable.
In a big-hearted musical about a 1970s Belfast record store owner and the punk movement he nurtured, music is the real hero.
The children of a severely alcoholic widower navigate his incapacity, and his legacy, in John J. Caswell Jr.'s pitch-black comedy about addiction.
In Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel's jazzy new musical, Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James are a glamorous couple succumbing to alcoholism.
Audible Theater's leader and the creator of "Sorry for Your Loss" hope the autobiographical comedy helps others learn to talk about grief.
Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival opener, written by ruth tang, rages against the machines and examines human alienation.
In roles in HBO's "Succession" and "A Doll's House" on Broadway, politics are never far from mind for the Iranian American actor.
A play within a play about W.H. Auden and Benjamin Britten structures this sex-spiked comedy for the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters in Manhattan.
When Victoria Clark was offered the titular role in the musical, she worried her singing had lost its luster. Turns out, imperfection has its own allure.
The story of a Black family's fight to desegregate public pools spans decades in Christina Anderson's play at Yale Repertory Theater.
Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan revisit Lorraine Hansberry's 1964 play on Broadway, following its sold-out run in Brooklyn.
Irish Repertory Theater's Letters Series is a reminder: For sketching the arc of a relationship, nothing compares to intimate correspondence, our critic writes.
Two mothers make a life-altering connection during a play date in this production for the Manhattan Theater Club.
Laura Horton's poignant comic monologue at 59E59 Theaters, part of the Brits Off Broadway festival, delivers a sympathetic portrayal of a sample-sale hoarder.
The comedian Judy Gold's new solo show at 59E59 Theaters is deliberately uncomfortable " and packed with laughs.
Miki Nakatani and Mikhail Baryshnikov star in this meticulously handsome stage adaptation of Yasushi Inoue's 1949 novella.
Members of the puppetry team for "Life of Pi" discuss making the show's animals seem all-too-real on a very crowded lifeboat.
After 15 years away from the stage, Andre Royo of 'The Wire' goes all in with an evening of Eric Bogosian monologues at the Minetta Lane Theater.
Target Margin Theater remixes one of the Bard's lesser works, with uninspired results.
Ryan J. Haddad's gracefully layered play about the lives of disabled people blasts away condescension and replaces it with comprehension.
In Keen Company's revival of Lynn Nottage's 1995 play, a Black girl comes of age amid the churn of social change in midcentury Brooklyn.
