909 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
In Howard L. Craft's century-spanning play at Here, J. Alphonse Nicholson plays a minstrel, a faith healer, an F.B.I. informant, an actor and a homeless man.
This jazz-infused play at the Williamstown Theater Festival stars Blair Underwood as a bullying nightclub owner and De'Adre Aziza as the alluring stranger who comes to town.
The odd-couple match of flamenco and ancient Greek tragedy in this production at West Park Presbyterian Church makes an "Aha!" kind of sense of the Sophocles work.
This play by Clifford Odets, directed by Stephen Brown-Fried at the Public Theater, is about a struggling Bronx family with aspirations.
Among the offerings at this festival is a work in which the lead character wants to be the pope.
Tim Ruddy's three-monologue drama takes place during an unnamed conflict that seems very much like Bosnian Serb forces' slaughter of thousands of Muslims in Srebrenica.
The Broadway-bound musical production, which blends hearing and deaf performers, held an open casting call for deaf actors this week.
The shadow-puppetry troupe makes use of music, cinematic techniques and art works to create its shows.
A roundup of five performances from the first week of the festival.
Purposefully formulaic characters, a gender bend and a ghost with the name of a company member come together in this sendup of a play.
Carl Cofield directs the Classical Theater of Harlem's production, which stars Ron Cephas Jones as Prospero.
Brooke Adams and Tony Shalhoub star in this production at the Flea Theater, directed by Andrei Belgrader.
This performance artist and singer has remade his "Love of a Poet," based on Robert Schumann's song cycle "Dichterliebe."
Michael Perlman's play, presented by Fault Line Theater, convenes a group of dinner party guests who tussle over abortion, race and class.
The playwright took a bus from Manhattan to Reading, Pa., to revisit the theater that inspired his new play, "Shows for Days."
Tamilla Woodard delivers a breezy production that is warm-blooded and frolicsome for Masterworks Theater Company.
In Craig Wright's comic romance, Kari and Peter meet again at their 20th high school reunion, and he wants her back.
Mr. Wainwright combines his work with that of his father, the writer Loudon Wainwright Jr., in his solo show.
Sam Marks's play, at the Flea Theater, tackles art-world pretensions and a frustrated painter and father-to-be's existential crisis.
The Irish drag queen Panti, who gained fame when her speech about homophobia went viral, makes an argument for the freedom to be oneself at the Irish Arts Center.
This mournful play, adapted from a novel by the Israeli-based Lithuanian author Grigory Kanovich, is presented by the Cherry Orchard Festival.
Eve Sicular's play documents her grandmother's life, with help from J. Edgar Hoover's watchful eye and meticulous records.
This theater's 35th Marathon of One-Act Plays includes a marital comedy by Julia Cho and a portrait of intimacy and entitlement by Martyna Majok.
Mr. Wilde talks about his unnerving vampire tale at 59E59 Theaters, which depicts two women " one all-controlling, the other wrapped up in fantasy tales.
Jeremy Bloom and Brian Rady's play, at the New Ohio Theater, includes Catherine Brookman's music, rising water levels, New England farmers and marine animals behaving oddly.
