1,308 stories by "Alexis Soloski"
This Torben Betts play, a comedy set in northern England, skewers working class narrow-mindedness and liberal condescension.
Annie Baker and Heidi Schreck wrote an episode of Amazon's "I Love Dick" that our critic calls the best 20 minutes of television she has seen in years.
New York City Center Stage IICan an affair between a middle-aged woman and an older man be explored through science? Simon Stephens springs some surprises, though his play is not entirely cr…
The House of Cards actor offered outdated Johnny Carson impressions, a Bobby Darin number and a misfiring gag about Hillary Clinton's emails on a night of occasional shock and unforgivable s…
Second Stage TheatrePop score and outcast protagonist hit all the right notes as Benj Pasek and Justin Paul production explores intense issues " and critiques internet culture Can a performa…
Chisa Hutchinson's portrait of a Chinese-American girl and her college admissions counselor is energetic but overstuffed.
The experimental troupe Sister Sylvester reworked its script after the subject of this play, a young Turkish woman, was killed in Syria.
This Broadway musical inspired by Tupac has some exhilarating dance numbers. If only we could care about the charactersPour one out for Holler if Ya Hear Me, the dead-on-arrival Broadway juk…
Video clips, incense and guided meditation are mashed up in Royal Osiris Karaoke Ensemble's offbeat exploration of courtship in the age of the app.
They met while cast in the same play, married, and now appear together again, in "Animal," which opens at Atlantic Stage 2.
The decision of Edward Albee's estate to deny production rights over the casting choice of a black actor has reignited a debate over theater's relationship with raceLast week, a casting dire…
Ain Gordon's messy, heartbreaking show is both eulogy and autobiography, capturing the exciting and ungentrified city he knew in the 1970s.
Atlantic Theater, New YorkA show filled with masterful mind-reading and nifty tricks successfully announces the celebrated mentalist's stateside arrival off-BroadwayDon't lie to Derren Brown…
In this work written and choreographed by Jinah Parker, women detail their harrowing stories as female dancers swirl around them.
A staged reading at Town Hall revisited confirmation hearings for President Trump's cabinet nominees, with charismatic stars as the politicians.
As musicals continue to break records, straight plays are struggling " with Sally Field-starring The Glass Menagerie the latest casualty of the seasonTom, the narrator of Tennessee Williams'…
Ms. Benton, a star of "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," talks about proving that women who look like her can play the girl who saves the day.
'Ernest Shackleton Loves Me' raises a trekker from the dead as a heartthrob in this spunky new musical.
In this collaborative work by the company Bucket Club, a sighting of the mythical monster forces an evolutionary biologist to confront her unhappy past.
Bette Midler, Cate Blanchett and Kevin Kline provide some A-list glamour for this year's nominations, but there's no love for Amélie and Significant OtherAt the Tony awards this year, a com…
Golden Theater, New YorkLaurie Metcalf gives a thrilling performance in a speculative follow-up to Henrik Ibsen's defining 1879 masterworkThere are sofa plays and dinner table plays. Plays a…
Laura Osnes and Corey Cott star in a new Broadway musical, set in 1945, about a musician, a singer, trauma and healing.
"In a Pickle," at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, is "The Winter's Tale" for 2- through 5-year-olds. More emphasis on the sheep, less on the scary stuff.
Shubert theatre, New York Even if the shtick is predictable, Midler " paired with David Hyde Pierce " shines in an exhaustingly energetic revival of the 1964 musical comedyBefore our benight…
This nimble revival of Lillian Hellman's 1939 drama features Ms. Linney and Ms. Nixon in alternating roles of Southern womanhood.
