105 stories by "CATHERINE RAMPELL"
A group of men all named Josh Cohen went to a new off-Broadway musical The Other Josh Cohen. It's a common Jewish name. One of them thought the show was about him, for good reason.
More than four years, under the rosiest of assumptions.
Somebody get Jeff Kreisler on "The Colbert Report."
"Almost, Maine," a regional theater standard, is a world of love played out in vignettes.
The Czechoslovak-American Marionette Theater uses Plato's texts as a basis for "The Republic, or Dinner With Socrates," at La MaMa E.T.C.
Sidney Frances Bateman's 1856 play "Self," at the Metropolitan Playhouse, offers timeless humor centered on social climbers.
Sidney Frances Bateman's 1856 play "Self," at the Metropolitan Playhouse, offers timeless humor centered on social climbers.
Helen Sneed's "Fix Me, Jesus," at Abingdon Theater, delves behind a panic attack.
Ed Bullins's "In the Wine Time," a drama from 1968, is full of bad advice for its orphaned young hero.
In the play "And Miles to Go," a longtime teacher deals with problems at a New York high school.
"Bayside! The Musical!" offers some familiar humor for fans of the TV series "Saved by the Bell."
The Pearl Theater Company is reviving George Bernard Shaw's "You Never Can Tell," a subversive comedy of errors about men and women's negotiations over independence and marriage. …
Three characters are trapped in reveries and in search of what is real in "The Awake," by Ken Urban.
In Fraser Grace's "Breakfast With Mugabe," the president of Zimbabwe, Robert Mugabe, sees a psychotherapist, and colonialism is put on the couch.
Adrian Bunting's play recalls the 1809 protests over ticket prices at the Covent Garden Theater in London.
A review of "Rubble," a comedy by a longtime writer-producer for "The Simpsons."
In John S. Anastasi's "I Forgive you, Ronald Reagan," a family is permanently scarred by the 1981 air traffic controllers' walkout.
In this musical starring Susan Blackwell a ragtag high school volleyball team and its once-disgraced coach fight for respect.
The new musical is about five passengers stranded in an existential limbo.
In this musical by Eli Bolin, Sam Forman and Rob Ackerman, a ragtag high school volleyball team and once-disgraced coach fight for respect.
Chinese-American siblings struggle with pressures from their mother and their snarky online milieu in "a cautionary tail," at the Flea Theater.
In "Rantoul and Die," an assistant manager at a Dairy Queen in a depressed Illinois town tries to clean up her personal life.
In "Bureau of Missing Persons," a former schoolteacher who had a mental breakdown after losing one of her fourth graders on a class trip, goes on a quest that takes her to a cave in Moscow.&…
In the Mint Theater's revival of "A Picture of Autumn," N. C. Hunter's 1951 play, a family struggles with elderly parents who cling to their crumbling mansion.
Rhea Leman's "Gorilla" builds a play around corporate team-building exercises.