908 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
With age-blind casting at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival, two actors who have been married for 38 years play the teenage leads.
This vaudevillian show at La MaMa in Manhattan is like a party where weed is the guest of honor, thrown by ardent, uncritical hosts.
At the Williamstown Theater Festival, Daniel Fish's "Most Happy in Concert" confounds and Anna Ouyang Moench's "Man of God" raises it own question.
The 81-year-old actress stars as an eccentric dinner party host. When she was a teenager, though, wanting to act was a secret she didn't dare tell.
A new Off Broadway musical, based on the best-selling young adult novel by Jodi Picoult and Samantha van Leer, is uneven but sweet, our critic writes.
At an uptown amphitheater, the Classical Theater of Harlem stages Shakespeare's comedy with fizzy delight.
Patrick Stewart, Tarell Alvin McCraney, Tina Landau and Tim Robbins on being challenged and inspired by the legendary theater maker, who died last weekend.
She breathes, coughs and mourns, and now the cow puppet that captured hearts in the Encores! "Into the Woods" revival is on Broadway.
A young boarder's plan to make a new life in Australia unsettles a staid British family in Elizabeth Baker's 1909 play, revived by the Mint Theater Company.
The writer James Baldwin and the poet Nikki Giovanni are at the center of a crackling work of verbatim theater at the Vineyard Theater.
Jessica Hecht, Mikhail Baryshnikov and Chekhov himself too often get overwhelmed by this ambitious Arlekin Players Theater adaptation.
The new play, about a 15-year-old girl and her impending quinceañera, creates a fitting party vibe. If only the script didn't clarify every cultural reference.
Josh Azouz's vivid, nightmarish play at Astoria Performing Arts Center in Queens is a hallucinatory tale about two refugees and a talkative infant.
A cast of three recount the gripping drama of the death of a teenager by the Dutch police in 2012.
In this sweet, spoofy romp of a musical comedy, Romeo awakens from a 400-year slumber and follows a Juliet look-alike to Brooklyn.
This New York City Children's Theater adaptation of Maya Angelou's celebrated memoir faces the challenge of faithfully telling a story that encompasses a great deal of pain.
Theater has always been a team sport. But this Covid-stalked Broadway season has made clear that a prize for the entire cast should be added.
From new shows like "Macbeth" and "A Strange Loop" to long-running Tony Award winners, a rundown of everything you need to know.
Decidedly anti-sensationalistic, Alison Leiby's shrewd and funny personal monologue plays downtown. Uptown, a staged reading focuses on a gruesome case.
Mona Mansour's rich trilogy, now at the Public Theater, follows a displaced Palestinian family.
Now starring in "Wish You Were Here," the Iranian-born actress has made her mark in three works by playwrights of Middle Eastern descent.
In a mishmash new musical based on his 1992 movie, he charms the audience as a has-been comic reconnecting with family.
Camille A. Brown's revival of Ntozake Shange's 1976 Broadway landmark brings exuberant life to a play that celebrates Black women's solidarity in the face of pain.
A new musical-comedy retelling of "The Odyssey" from the York Theater Company tries to center a powerful woman but feels like a show about and for men.
In Keith Huff's new play, two friends head to the Jan. 6 insurrection, but this production substitutes unfunny cartoonishness for the characters' humanity.
