341 stories by "Neil Genzlinger"
PBS's "American Masters" explores the life of this Pulitzer-winning playwright and his significance in chronicling African-American culture on the stage.
Greg Edwards and Andy Sandberg's one-woman show satirizes the intense competition for places at a Manhattan private school.
"A Very Barry Branson" follows the former "Brady Bunch" star Barry Williams in his quest to start a 1970s-themed stage show in the Missouri mecca of country music.
"The Golden Toad," by the experimental troupe the Talking Band, unfolds over several locations and 27 years.
The comedy troupe Parallel Exit evokes "Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In" in its new show, "Everybody Gets Cake!"
Patrick Stewart stars in the film version of Stephen Belber's play "Match," stepping into the role that earned Frank Langella a Tony nomination.
"A Beautiful Day in November on the Banks of the Greatest of the Great Lakes," written by Kate Benson and directed by Lee Sunday Evans, begins Monday at City Center Stage II.
The Golden Dragon Acrobats from China do the impossible (or at least the improbable) in "Cirque ZÃva," at the New Victory Theater.
In Mat Smart's "Naperville, a son moves back home to help his mother deal with losing her sight, but she finds that even her coffee is different.
In her "Me, My Mouth & I" routine, Joy Behar's humor comes through on subjects like sex, "The View" and her upbringing in Brooklyn.
Virtual life is less appealing than the physical in "I See You," Kate Robin's two-hander at the Flea Theater.
In "It Has to Be You," siblings worried about their aging mother visit her and find that she doesn't need their pity.
The Godlight Theater Company is adapting James Dickey's novel "Deliverance," presenting it on a 12-by-12-foot stage and scrupulously hewing to the book, not the movie.
David Holthouse's play, "Stalking the Bogeyman," is based on his rape as a 7-year-old and his mission as an adult to find and kill his attacker.
A few cast members head to the perfect bar: The Headless Horseman.
"Illusions," at the Baryshnikov Arts Center, examines the marriages and the friendship of two couples.
"The Fatal Weakness," which ran on Broadway in 1946 and is being restaged at the Mint Theater, is a domestic comedy with a twist.
The musical "Bedbugs!!!" finds humor in mutant insects that terrorize New York City.
"The Alchemist" at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey in Madison is a production that is better than the play.
The World's Fair Play Festival at the Queens Theater features short works inspired by the 1964 and 1939 World's Fairs.
The show uses material by the country songwriter JT Harding, who has written hits for Kenny Chesney and Uncle Kracker, among others.
The play "Between Riverside and Crazy" will give audiences a very good look at an actor they know well from secondary roles, Stephen McKinley Henderson.
"Blink," written by Phil Porter, finds two characters in a story of love in the age of indirect, device-assisted communication.
Viewers who were paying close attention to the Tony Awards could occasionally not help but acknowledge that performing live theater is hard work in a way that making movies is not.
HBO's version of Larry Kramer's play "The Normal Heart" has shortcomings, but it benefits from what film can do for a story written for the stage.
