192 stories by "Helen Shaw"
The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch cross Andrew Lloyd Webber's juggernaut musical with queer ballroom culture to electrifying effect.
The British playwright Lucy Kirkwood's "The Welkin" exorcises the jury-room drama.
In the playwright's début film, "Janet Planet," Julianne Nicholson stars as an object of obsession for her daughter"and everyone else"over the course of a long, hot summer in the Berkshires.
Superb stagecraft illuminates Robert Ickes's "Player Kings," Benedict Andrews's "The Cherry Orchard," and Ian Rickson's "London Tide."
Paula Vogel's "Mother Play," Shaina Taub's "Suffs," and Amy Herzog's "Mary Jane" strike back at the mother-as-monster dramatic trope.
David Adjmi's cult-hit play features seventies-inspired rock songs by Will Butler, while Eddie Redmayne presides over a demonic version of the Kit Kat Club.
A hit British production of Shakespeare's ever-timely tragedy arrives in D.C.
The Wooster Group gives the Richard Foreman play "Symphony of Rats" its signature spins.
The 1993 musical's already bizarre story, derived from Pete Townshend's beautiful 1969 album, is even less clear in Des McAnuff's reanimation for Broadway.
A director of the modern uncanny steers the first Broadway production of Chekhov's masterpiece in twenty years.
Dominique Morisseau revives her 2012 drama about a daughter, part revolutionary, part survivor, whose father devoted his life to the struggle for Black liberation.
Sarah Gancher's "Russian Troll Farm" and Sasha Denisova's "My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion" look for truth in a world of lies.
With "Bark of Millions," "Oh, Mary!," and "Aristotle Thinks Again," the fabulousness on New York's stages seems to have reached a critical mass.
At the first rehearsal for Suzanne Bocanegra's "Bodycast," Ruth Negga practices playing Bocanegra, who practices sitting onstage and muttering lines to Negga.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury turns to fine-grained realism in his extraordinary bilingual drama.
The playwright Joshua Harmon broaches profound questions of Jewish identity in his drama, but a bigger stage and a changed moment reveal its flaws.
Remembering the activism and artistry of a New York theatre hero.
Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright's "Appropriate" investigates a dysfunctional Southern family's buried secrets.
Property and its discontents vex "Manahatta" and "Life & Times of Michael K."
The R. & B. titan shares a fictionalized version of her coming of age.
"FOOD," "Redwood," and "Faust (The Broken Show)" mask serious intent behind laughter.
Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel's stately "Translations."
The critic, professor, producer, and author was a pugilistic champion of the stage.
The writer David Ives and the director Joe Mantello continued without the late composer on an adaptation of two lacerating Luis Buñuel films.
Two new intergenerational sagas, by Nathan Alan Davis and Javier Antonio González, explore the American legacy.
