321 stories by "Jason Zinoman"
A friend of Mike McAlary, a tough-guy columnist who died young, memorializes him in a play, "The Wood," at the Rattlestick Playwrights Theater.
The popular idea that tough criticism emerges from malice or cruelty is almost always wrong. So why do critics write brutal pans? And can they go too far?
"Yeast Nation (the triumph of life)" takes a satirical look at the rise of yeast from the ocean floor to start a new life form.
"HotelMotel," featuring plays by Derek Ahonen and Adam Rapp, is set in a room at the Gershwin Hotel and produced by the downtown troupe the Amoralists.
Plays by Ruby Rae Spiegel, Neil LaBute, Christopher Durang and Alexander Dinelaris make up Series A of "Summer Shorts 5."
"The Spoon River Project," adapted by Tom Andolora from "Spoon River Anthology" by Edgar Lee Masters, is performed in Green-Wood Cemetery.
"Our Lot," by W. David Hancock and Kristin Newbom, centers on the stepchildren of a man who collected objects he said belonged to famous people.
Shaping Cirque du Soleil's new show, "Zarkana," which opens in New York this week, involves trying to balance the tension between a circus and a rock opera.
Guy Laliberté, the chief executive of Cirque du Soleil, prepares to open three huge shows before the end of the year.
With rare access to Cirque du Soleil's creative process, Jason Zinoman looks at the evolution of the theatrical company into an international brand, and he shows what goes on behind the scen…
"Here at Home," a new play by 31 Down in Brooklyn, ponders a world of war and soulless chain stores.
A selection of theater artists share their memories of the playwright and director Arthur Laurents, who died on Thursday.
The new documentary drama "Locker No. 4173b" is a smart if not altogether satisfying production by the New York Neo-Futurists.
Two playwrights, Daniel Goldfarb and Jonathan Marc Sherman, talk about the experience of becoming fathers and the influence that has had on their work.
Two brave, timely new American dramas are vying for best play.
In "The Tragical Life of Cheeseboy," Finegan Kruckemeyer's play at the Duke on 42nd Street, a Dickensian storyteller relates the adventures of a boy made of cheese.
"Epona's Labyrinth," at Here Arts Center, follows a husband on a Kafkaesque search for his wife.
The Keen Company revives "Benefactors," Michael Frayn's structured dissection of two couples and how their lives unravel.
A Palestinian refugee family is torn by the Arab-Israeli conflict in Mona Mansour's "Urge for Going," at the Public Theater.
Qui Nguyen's new play is an ambitious entertainment about modern identity wrapped inside an exploitation drama about what used to be called the "inscrutable Orient."
The Peccadillo Theater Company's production of the 1951 musical "A Tree Grows in Brooklyn," at the Theater at St. Clements, is a low-budget affair that wants to be high-budget.
"The Method Gun" is a high-concept version of "A Streetcar Named Desire" with Stanley, Blanche, Stella and Mitch cut out.
"Invasion!", a translation of a Swedish-language play at Walkerspace, revels in wordplay.
Tina Satter's "In the Pony Palace/Football" dissects high school football with gender-flipped casting that reveals the sport's hidden dimensions.
Theater in the Dark, With Lights, a mini-festival in which three of his works are receiving short runs, provides an opportunity to judge whether Ashlin Halfnight has arrived.
