908 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
La MaMa Puppet Festival and other stage works this fall highlight the power of storytelling through puppetry.
Hansol Jung's new play riffs on Greek dramas, the Restoration comedy "The Country Wife" and Tony Kushner's "Angels in America."
Irish Repertory Theater's season-long survey of the playwright's work prompted our reporter to seek out the Irish town that inspired the imaginary site of so many of his plays.
At La MaMa, Caitlin George's new play uses comedy to counter the legend of Helen of Troy.
In this Off Broadway production, the actor is most fascinated by human fallibility and Shakespeare's nuanced understanding of it.
At NYU Skirball, Druid's marathon production depicts the beginning of a free Irish state through the voices of the working class.
On Broadway, this rock concert spliced with memoir has gained a striking intimacy.
Theresa Rebeck's play, a Primary Stages production at 59E59 Theaters, is a beautifully acted dramedy exploring the truth and warped perceptions of it.
"Prometheus Firebringer" and "Bioadapted" test the waters, while the abstract "Psychic Self Defense" is a warm and pulsing counterpoint.
In her new play, Christina Masciotti turns a keen gaze on an immigrant tailor who has woven her business into the fabric of a neighborhood.
In her Off Broadway drama, which had an acclaimed run in Chicago, the playwright looks for hope to outweigh despair in a fractious, anxious time.
The handwriting on the company's wall, in chalk, was traced by a closing night crowd sharing memories of more than 30 years of landmarks and larks.
Six shows and a fringe festival are among this month's highlights in New York, New Jersey, Connecticut and a bit beyond.
Alex Bechtel's new musical, sort of "a pandemic parable," gives voice to a mythical character in "The Odyssey."
"Here You Come Again" and "On Cedar Street" are very different new musicals about people who are unmoored and seek companionship to make it through.
A guide to what's onstage at theater festivals in upstate New York and the Berkshires.
The industry is facing challenges, but in western Massachusetts the quality of the works is as rich as ever, our critic writes.
Conceived before the pandemic, Andy Field's ode to sharing space in person glosses over the ways our everyday habits seem to have changed for good.
The Classical Theater of Harlem follows up last year's winning "Twelfth Night" with a sequel that feels like a sweet summer frolic.
Unrequited love swirls through this prestige-cast production of Anton Chekhov's play, in a Manhattan loft.
"The Cottage" is a throwback play with a modern mind-set. The cast, playwright and director talk about pulling off the comedy and landing all the "darlings."
As part of the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters, Nikhil Parmar's solo play is a drama-tinged satire that morphs into a grisly revenge parable.
In a big-hearted musical about a 1970s Belfast record store owner and the punk movement he nurtured, music is the real hero.
The children of a severely alcoholic widower navigate his incapacity, and his legacy, in John J. Caswell Jr.'s pitch-black comedy about addiction.
In Craig Lucas and Adam Guettel's jazzy new musical, Kelli O'Hara and Brian d'Arcy James are a glamorous couple succumbing to alcoholism.
