24 stories by "Vinson Cunningham"
The actor, comedian, and former talk-show host on his path from doing magic tricks and telling jokes to creating a TV show for the culture.
In Hulu's soapy "Washington Black," about an early-nineteenth-century slave who escapes to Halifax, Brown rises above the material.
Samm-Art Williams's "Home," on Broadway, and Shayan Lotfi's "What Became of Us," at Atlantic Theatre Company, portray the politics and the emotions of leaving home.
"Buena Vista Social Club," at Atlantic Theatre Company, and "How to Dance in Ohio," on Broadway, were adapted from documentaries, with varying success.
John Turturro plays the sex-obsessed Mickey Sabbath in a stage adaptation of Philip Roth's novel, and on Broadway Danny DeVito portrays a hoarder.
In Jocelyn Bioh's new Broadway comedy, West African immigrants navigate a Harlem salon fraught with cultural dissonance.
Sophisticated comedic turns from Leslie Odom, Jr., and Kara Young guide Kenny Leon's Broadway revival of Ossie Davis's 1961 play.
In Branden Jacobs-Jenkins's new play, at Signature Theatre, friends gathering for their twenty-year high-school reunion are each inhabited by the Reaper himself.
In "New York, New York," directed by Susan Stroman, and "Good Night, Oscar," starring Sean Hayes, the city is both the setting and a lead character.
At the Irish Repertory Theatre, John Douglas Thompson and Bill Irwin wring moments of superb physical comedy from two characters who struggle to move.
This raucously pro-choice musical, by the Philadelphia-based theatre collective Lightning Rod Special, sniffs out taboos and hunts them down at the pace of a sprint.
A very funny, moving new play looks at the foibles of a Protestant youth group. Plus: Adrienne Kennedy's Broadway début, with "Ohio State Murders."
In a new Broadway revival of "Death of a Salesman," the actor Wendell Pierce makes the melody of a sentence carry meaning beyond its words.
At the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the director, whose radically reimagined "Oklahoma!" was an emphatic Broadway hit, turns to Frank Loesser's 1956 musical.
The real-life spouses Sarah Jessica Parker and Matthew Broderick play three different couples in a new Broadway production of Neil Simon's trio of one-act plays, from 1968, at the Hudson The…
In Lynn Nottage's new play, characters' life stories come between slapstick riffs on sandwich-making; Alice Childress's 1955 play makes its much belated Broadway début.
Martyna Majok's play, presented by New York Theatre Workshop at the Lucille Lortel, focusses on two precisely defined characters to explore the injustices experienced by Dreamers in America.
The first play to open on Broadway since the shutdown, about two down-and-out young Black men on a barren block, is a strange fit for the moment at hand.
For "Zoetrope," viewers peer into a trailer to watch two lovers on lockdown talking past each other in well-educated millennialese; Bill Gunn's "The Forbidden City" follows a Black middle…
Simon Stephens's adaptation of José Saramago's dystopian novel, about a sudden epidemic of blindness, is up"in person"at the Daryl Roth Theatre.
Vinson Cunningham on Jeremy O. Harris's new work and Aaron Sorkin's adaptation of Harper Lee's novel, which explore the politics and the power at the heart of America's racial regime.
Vinson Cunningham reviews the new Broadway musical "King Kong" and the drama "American Son."
Vinson Cunningham on Kenneth Lonergan's drama, starring Elaine May, and Jez Butterworth's play, which sketches a harsh day for an Irish family during the Troubles.
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