A new body of domestic work on Broadway, including Tony front-runners 'Clybourne Park' and 'Other Desert Cities,' marks a strong change of pace for playwriting.Had you polled theater pundits…
There is no single method for choreography to succeed in a musical, and this year's Tony Award nominees take distinct approaches.
Jon Hamm and Daniel Radcliffe will star in Sky Arts' series based on Russian satirist Mikhal Bulgakov's short story memoir A Young Doctor's Notebook, according to The Hollywoo…
Erwin Piscator remembered and Judith Malina feted at The New School.
The Broadway season that ended recently has shown that the art of eloquence in theater is very much alive.
An essay on Tracie Bennett's portrayal of Judy Garland
At New York's Belasco Theatre, Tracie Bennett is astonishing as the aging Judy Garland in Peter Quilter's biographical account of the final chapter of the performer's life.NEW YORK — J…
"One Man, Two Guvnors" celebrates British lowbrow comedy and presents it in a way palatable in America.
The pianist Anthony de Mare performed pieces from his "Reimagining Sondheim" project in a concert at Symphony Space.
A look at Beckett's and Pinter's literary origins, with questions raised about how we are educating our playwrights today
"Envision: Artopia" is in its 10th season.
As comedians pursue the relatively new school of storytelling, they sometimes show that emotion can be mixed with humor.
Two separate exhibitions at Yale, on the Society of Antiquaries and on Shakespeare, together illuminate a four-century British effort to discover and reinvent its past.
Nonfiction should mean facts and nothing but the facts, argues the theater critic Charles Isherwood, in support of the retraction by "This American Life" of a program about Mike Daisey's "Th…
Off Broadway's major companies, regenerating for years, are now opening a spate of new theaters, raising questions of commercialism.
The virtuosic 'Iron Lady' star is stuck in two self-parodying modes of late: impersonating a character quite unlike herself or playing one who bears a teasing resemblance to her starry self.
Several current British productions, including "Lovesong," "Travelling Light" and "The Kreutzer Sonata," feature characters who recall earlier times.
Jeffrey Ross swings by the Varsity.
Abi Morgan's "Lovesong" is playing at London's Lyric Hammersmith Theater, which is probably the wettest house in town, given all the tears being shed there.
"The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess" was streamlined to make the original opera more accessible and realistic, but we're left with something slighter.
Experimental theater festivals, including Under the Radar, Coil, Other Forces and American Realness, enliven New York's January.
In an early note for my play The Elf King I wrote, “Ritualistic remembrance may be the overarching form of the play” and “This play is not about hope. It is about how to li…
Highlights of 2011 included Richard Bean's "One Man, Two Guvnors" and a revisionist "Hamlet," starring Michael Sheen.
NEW YORK " Although the power stayed on all through the topsy-turvy weather patterns of the fall, the city's theater district has found a key ingredient in the making of plays and musicals i…
Today's dramatists struggle to define the terms of contemporary drama for an audience that seems as uncertain about what constitutes a good play as they are.Sitting through a succession of n…