921 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
Jason Grote and Marisa Michelson's new musical, set in modern-day New York, deconstructs the Middle Eastern folk tales of "One Thousand and One Nights."
First produced in 2011, this coming-of-age story about a pregnant teenager lands uncomfortably in the wake of #MeToo.
A solo show by Eliza Bent and directed by Knud Adams explores cultural appropriation " and how we can call it out when we see it.
The Bengsons are a folk-rock duo adapting their personal stories for the stage. But their new show, "The Lucky Ones," posed a painful challenge: "Is it possible to tell the truth kindly?"
In this Primary Stages production, Sharon Washington recalls how an enchanting period in her family's history was also tinged with pain.
Repertorio Español delivers an intimate, transporting adaptation of the Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez novella.
Familiarity with Tolstoy's novel is no prerequisite for enjoying this antic show by the Berlin-based troupe Gob Squad.
The movie is beloved. But it also pits girls against girls. How, then, do you make a stage musical that satisfies fans and meets our cultural moment?
Reality and identity are mutable things in "Distant Observer: Tokyo/New York Correspondence," by Takeshi Kawamura and John Jesurun, at La MaMa.
A boxing champ who survived an attempt on her life prepares to seek revenge in this multimedia play at Abrons Arts Center.
Jeremy J. Kamps's play " a smart but overloaded riff on "The Cherry Orchard" set on a family farm " doesn't quite hit the right accent.
Jaclyn Backhaus and Andrew Neisler's new play wants to be a collection of stories about fierce women. But it's so packed with plot lines, it only partly succeeds.
The play, inspired by real people and events in the decades leading up to the foundation of Israel, cuts to the role of music in creating a nation.
This bio-play about the married artists Jackson Pollock and Lee Krasner is a surreal sparring match, steeped in alcohol and dripping with paint.
A primer of the books and films to get you ready for the Broadway opening of "Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two."
It may not be typical theater, but this immersive show is pulse-pounding and intensely affecting.
Roslyn Ruff and Jeff Hiller bring new dimensions to plays about Betty Shabazz and a chatty wedding guest.
From a historical drama to an updated Restoration comedy classic, Washington, D.C., theaters make a case for evening the playing field.
This smart, troubling piece of documentary theater spends time with men cordoned off from regular society, and those who believe they can be redeemed.
Alexa Shae Nizak is uncannily persuasive as an adolescent girl who gets more than she bargained for in Scott Organ's play.
Michael Weller resets "Liliom," the play that inspired Rodgers and Hammerstein, in Coney Island. But the central romance remains problematic.
This New York-based showcase offers the kind of experimental plays, like "Pillowtalk," that thrive in more obscure performance spaces.
The Mint Theater's handsome, rough around the edges production makes a better case for this 1912 play as a curiosity than as a forgotten gem.
In her new play "Sovereignty," Mary Kathryn Nagle brings together her legal activism and her family history.
In this gentle, humane show by Ping Chong + Company, young New Yorkers share their real-life victories and fears.
