321 stories by "Jason Zinoman"
Richard Maxwell, once an intern for the Wooster Group, is now directing the group's production of Eugene O'Neill's "Early Plays."
The York Theater's revival of the comic musical revue "Ionescopade" is less Kafka than Carol Burnett.
David Steinberg on why stand-up comedians aren't necessarily stable and why Canadian comics are so funny.
In Daniel Talbott's new play, "Yosemite," a family tries to deal with a baby's death.
"Newyorkland," a multimedia show in the Coil Festival, examines law enforcement by separating fact from hyped-up fiction.
"The Bee," based on a short story by Yasutaka Tsutsui, explores the price of revenge.
The goods exchanged are unclear in a sexually charged encounter between a dealer and a client in Radoslaw Rychcik's adaptation of a French play, but the high stakes are not.
Experimental theater festivals, including Under the Radar, Coil, Other Forces and American Realness, enliven New York's January.
The promised "spectacle of raw shame" comes off more like a faded reproduction in "Hypnotik: The Seer Will Doctor You Now."
"Wearing Lorca's Bowtie" is an impressionistic mood piece inspired by the writings of Federico GarcÃa Lorca.
Reid Farrington's version of "A Christmas Carol" is a technically complicated mash-up in which George C. Scott, Bill Murray and Donald Duck star along with live actors who double as stagehan…
A trip to the nation's capital for a night of politicians doing standup proved the old truism: Washington's rather humorless.
A revival of "Silence! The Musical" is at the 9th Space Theater at Performance Space 122.
It's an easy stroll of a performance for John Malkovich, who plays Jack Unterweger, a real-life Austrian serial killer, in Michael Sturminger's staging of "The Infernal Comedy."
Dael Orlandersmith's "Horsedreams" addresses the allure, as well as the often tragic outcomes, of cocaine use.
What is the best new American drama of the first decade of this century? I would make the case for Kenneth Lonergan's "Lobby Hero."
In a brief run at the White Light Festival, "Desdemona," directed by Peter Sellars with a script by Toni Morrison, is a reimagining of the title character that comes off as an elegant lectur…
A late one-act play by Tennessee Williams, "Now the Cats With Jewelled Claws," has the nervous energy of a circus.
Mia Yoo, the new artistic director of La MaMa, inherited the post from its colorful founder and longtime leader, Ellen Stewart, who died in January.
"The Speaker's Progress," an elegantly staged satire about the Arab world from the Kuwaiti playwright Sulayman al-Bassam, is at the Brooklyn Academy of Music.
"The Little Prince," the 1943 novella by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, comes to the stage in the Bristol Riverside Theater production at the New Victory Theater.
In Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's "Lidless," Alice, a former military interrogator at Guantánamo Bay, is forced to confront her time there.
Pearl Theater's production of Eugène Ionesco's "Bald Soprano" treats the short play as an old-fashioned farce about two couples lost in their own heads.
Jesse Eisenberg and Zoe Kazan, who both have written plays that open next month, talk about the theater and their careers.
The conceit behind "Conni's Avant Garde Restaurant: The Mothership Landing" is that a band of fictional performers who specialize in cutting-edge art and pretentiousness are serving up dinne…
