228 stories from WQXR
Larry David was one of the masterminds behind the megahit sitcom "Seinfield," but since then he's become better known for playing a version of himself in the HBO series "Curb Your Enth…
Helen Mirren won an Oscar for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in the 2006 movie "The Queen." Now she picks up the famous handbag again in the play The Audience, written by Peter Morgan, who al…
If you've been in a dive bar in New York, or anywhere else, just those simple words are enough to conjure the bleak decor, the smell of stale drink and something more. Eugene O'Neill's…
A new production from The Civilians, a journalistic theater company, is called Pretty Filthy and is an exploration of the pornography industry centered in Southern California's S…
Decades before Anton Chekhov's plays about the struggles of existence among ostensibly successful and wealthy Russians, Ivan Turgenev wrote A Month in the Country, a play that contains…
"Boy meets girl" is a fine start for so many stories, including Let the Right One In, a play adapted by Jack Thorne and based on the Swedish novel and film of the same name by John Ajvide…
What can happen when two people meet? The possibilities are endless, but every relationship winds up following a single path, better known as "what actually happened." But what about all of …
Courtney Love, a famous rock widow and an actor and rock star in her own right, is making a low-key return to performing in the new musical theater piece Kansas City Choir Boy at HEREÂ Art…
Every Brilliant Thing is a one-man show that features a large supporting cast. The show's other big self-contradictory element is its exploration of the impenetrable sadness of d…
The New York Times recently sent theater critic Charles Isherwood on a trip to London, where he saw Shakespeare, quasi-Shakespeare and Kristin Scott Thomas onstage. While there, Isherw…
Theatrical magic acts have a long, long tradition in the world of entertainment. With a name that pays homage to earlier forms of stage trickery, The Illusionists: Witness the Impossible is …
In 2003, Mark Haddon wrote a well-received novel about a 15-year-old boy solving a mystery that's become a literary staple. But "The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time" is atyp…
Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II were riding high in 1947 on the successes of Oklahoma! and Carousel. For their next show they tried something with a Greek chorus and a stage with no…
Edward Albee's 1966 play A Delicate Balance won him the first of his three Pulitzer Prizes. It has become one of his most highly regarded and frequently produced works, and returns for its t…
A musical that spent just a few months on Broadway in 1997 has been re-tooled and returned to the Great White Way. Side Show is based on the lives of Daisy and Violet Hilton, conjoined tw…
On Broadway right now at the Neil Simon Theatre is The Last Ship, which might as well be called The Sting Musical, since the pop superstar has contributed not only music and lyrics, but most…
A short Off-Broadway run in 2012 was New York's introduction to Disgraced. Novelist and screenwriter Ayad Akhtar's drama is about the stresses placed on an American Muslim man struggling to …
The hottest-selling show on Broadway this fall is, surprisingly, not a musical. Instead, it's the revival of Terrence McNally's 1982 comedy It's Only a Play, set in a theater producer'…
To say that Tail! Spin! is true to life might be a bit of an understatement. Mario Correa's play uses words taken from the public record to tell the sex-scandal stories of four politicians: …
Steve Martin has quite a resume: comic, actor, writer, art collector, banjo player and now, musical book writer and musical theater co-creator. Martin and his collaborator, singer-songwriter…
In the late 1980s, A.R. Gurney created an unusual play consisting only of a long correspondence between two people. But that play, Love Letters, has endured and has been seen in innumerab…
Playwrights Horizons, a New York theater company with a mission devoted to supporting works by American writers, has opened its new season with a bold new play. Bootycandy, written and direc…
The prolific A.R. Gurney is among the playwrights in residence at the Signature Theatre Company this year. The first of three Gurney plays to be presented is a revival of his 1977 play The W…
New York City's new theater season is a great way to cure those end-of-summer blues. There are plenty of revivals and a few choice new offerings. There are musicals and straight plays. There…
Robert Schenkkan's All the Way, this year's Tony winner for best play and for its leading actor, Bryan Cranston, was a hefty drama about Lyndon Johnson and the aftermath of the Kennedy assas…
