1,898 stories from The New Yorker
Sarah Gancher's "Russian Troll Farm" and Sasha Denisova's "My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion" look for truth in a world of lies.
With "Bark of Millions," "Oh, Mary!," and "Aristotle Thinks Again," the fabulousness on New York's stages seems to have reached a critical mass.
At the first rehearsal for Suzanne Bocanegra's "Bodycast," Ruth Negga practices playing Bocanegra, who practices sitting onstage and muttering lines to Negga.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury turns to fine-grained realism in his extraordinary bilingual drama.
The playwright Joshua Harmon broaches profound questions of Jewish identity in his drama, but a bigger stage and a changed moment reveal its flaws.
Rauch has been called the "nicest man in show business." Now he's trying to bring the spirit of community theatre to a building that cost half a billion dollars.
Essentially boom boxes on three wheels, the bicycle-drawn carriages are prompting theatre owners to push back.
Remembering the activism and artistry of a New York theatre hero.
Also: Helen Shaw rounds up experimental-theatre festivals, Parul Sehgal's novella picks, and more.
Susan Bay Nimoy restored an Art Deco theatre in L.A. and dedicated it to her husband, Leonard, whose Orthodox upbringing inspired his "Star Trek" tag, "Live long and prosper."
The actor, who played Sofia in the revival of "The Color Purple" musical on Broadway, reprises the role in a new film adaptation of the musical.
Also: New Year's Eve at the Met Opera, Noche Flamenca, Frankie Cosmos, and more.
On Broadway and off, a return to deep introspection"and Stephen Sondheim.
Starring a Peak TV supercast, the playwright's "Appropriate" investigates a dysfunctional Southern family's buried secrets.
"Buena Vista Social Club," at Atlantic Theatre Company, and "How to Dance in Ohio," on Broadway, were adapted from documentaries, with varying success.
The pipe dream versus reality of a pilgrimage to Broadway.
Property and its discontents vex "Manahatta" and "Life & Times of Michael K."
The R. & B. titan shares a fictionalized version of her coming of age.
The artist restores depth and interiority to the caricatures of racism.
"FOOD," "Redwood," and "Faust (The Broken Show)" mask serious intent behind laughter.
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.
Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel's stately "Translations."
The critic, professor, producer, and author was a pugilistic champion of the stage.
The writer David Ives and the director Joe Mantello continued without the late composer on an adaptation of two lacerating Luis Buñuel films.
The playwright behind "Jaja's African Hair Braiding" chose boho mermaid locks before opening on Broadway.
