A funny thing happened after my disappointment over "Mean Girls" had me forswearing musicals in the middle of Times Square. I fell in love again with the art form through two rapturous reviv…
Two old shows have captured the hearts of Broadway this season, arguably more than hipper or edgier fare. Why? And how? Our critic's take on what makes this season's musical revivals truly s…
The actor's deeply felt performance in Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama on Broadway delivers a profound message about hurting those we care about most.
The prospect of another long wallow in the misery of Harry Hope's saloon should give even the most intrepid theatergoer pause. "The Iceman Cometh," Eugene O'Neill's marathon drama set in 191…
The 2018 list of nominees can be read as Broadway's lab results, and setting aside the spellbinding Springsteen and the integrity of "The Band's Visit," this year's slate tells us that the p…
Tony Award nominations can be read as Broadway's lab results, and it's clear from the slate announced Tuesday that the patient's health has taken a turn for the worse. The two big categories…
Theatergoers, divided into small groups, are guided to different parts of UCLA's Royce Hall, where Woolf's 1927 novel, one of the glories of literary modernism, is summoned in a theatrical s…
Theatergoers, divided into small groups, are guided to different parts of UCLA's Royce Hall, where Woolf's 1927 novel, one of the glories of literary modernism, is summoned in a theatrical s…
Our theater critic talks with the notoriously difficult actress, whose return to Broadway in "Three Tall Women" has made her the odds-on favorite to lead Tony nominations when they're announ…
Be careful what you wish for. Tea with Glenda Jackson, an actress I've admired since watching "A Touch of Class" on TV with my mother as a teenager, turned out not to be the dream encounter …
Anna Camp and Thomas Sadoski costar in an uneven Pasadena Playhouse production of playwright Amy Herzog's drama-with-a-dash-of-"Psycho."
"Little Black Shadows," a new play by Kemp Powers at South Coast Repertory, is set in the 1850s, when slavery in the South is an obdurate fact yet glimmers of a distant dawn are starting to …
Kemp Powers, who found inspiration in historical slave narratives, gets a visually arresting, at times haunting, production of his new play in Costa Mesa.
Rarely has an exclamation point in a title been earned as thoroughly as the one in the new Broadway revival of "Hello, Dolly!" starring Bette Midler. The show, which opened at the Sam S. Shu…
Lili Taylor stars in artist Suzanne Bocanegra's "Farmhouse/Whorehouse," which combines text, music and film centered on the lives of Bocanegra's grandparents, whose small farm stood across t…
Path-breaking artists help us to see the world afresh by challenging our habitual patterns of perception. They shock us into new awareness by joining the disparate and sundering the similar.…
Joshua Harmon's funny play, in a glorious new production at the Geffen Playhouse, follows a gay man in his late 20s whose female BFFs get married, one by one, leaving him ever more anxious a…
Four actors play all the characters of Shakespeare's "Hamlet" and George Bernard Shaw's "Saint Joan" in Bedlam's touring productions at the Broad Stage through Saturday.
However you judge Bedlam, this young and adventurous New York company deserves extra points for a program with an unusual degree of difficulty. Imagine four actors taking on all the roles no…
With a theme of hope in the face of oppressive politics, the Wooster Group stages 'A Pink Chair,' a piece centered on the work of the late Polish writer and stage director Tadeusz Kantor, so…
We live in an age where the internet has become an open archive. YouTube warehouses our collective nostalgia. (Oh, the hours I've lost watching old music videos and classic tennis matches!) …
Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew" belongs to a convention of comedy that isn't coming back anytime soon. The figure of the scolding, abusive wife, a reliable source of hilarity on the …
Playwright Amy Freed revisits the character of the scolding, abusive wife with this female-centric update of Shakespeare's "The Taming of the Shrew."
The Times' theater critic sits down with the playwright to discuss two new productions of his masterpiece, "Angels in America" " one at Berkeley Rep and the other in New York, where Kushner …
Edward Albee's Pulitzer-winning drama is the vehicle for Glenda Jackson's return to Broadway. Laurie Metcalf, a Tony winner last year, and Alison Pill co-star.