Critic's Notebook: Tale of the Iraq War, Still Resonating
"Black Watch," a group portrait of Scottish soldiers in Iraq that was first seen here in 2007, returns to St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
"Black Watch," a group portrait of Scottish soldiers in Iraq that was first seen here in 2007, returns to St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
The Belarus Free Theater, now performing three plays in repertory at La MaMa, should be seen by everyone who wants confirmation of the continuing relevance and vitality of theater.
Visual spectacle gains new ground amid a high-def push onto movie theaters and mavericks like Tod Machover and Trimpin conjuring up bold new visions.When Opera America holds its annual confe…
The Humana Festival of New American Plays presented works whose characters are searching for new experiences.
Harvey Fierstein joins the cast of "La Cage aux Folles" at the Longacre Theater.
Danny Boyle's production of 'Frankenstein,' seen via NT Live, has special relevance given our current crises.Entering the Downtown Independent near Little Tokyo on Thursday for the National …
Danny Boyle's production of 'Frankenstein,' seen via NT Live, has special relevance given our current crises.
The Wooster Group's new production of Tennessee Williams's 1977 play "Vieux Carré" draws from various influences, including Chinese opera, the films of Paul Morrissey and the videos of Ryan…
Classic Stage Company CSC, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming in a one night o…
Classic Stage Company CSC, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming in a one night o…
Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will star in a staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, to be presented by Classic Stage Company on Sunday, February 13, at 7pm. A…
La Mama, the East Village theater Ellen Stewart created and led, is not a 1960s relic; it continues to produce unexpected and even prophetic art.
The Public Theater's annual festival of adventurous new works stretches theatrical forms and the imagination.
Billie Joe Armstrong, the Green Day frontman, brings a jolt of rock-god electricity to the Broadway musical "American Idiot."
Two dating-themed shows, "Miss Abigail's Guide to Dating, Mating and Marriage" and "Blind Date," require participation by the willing and almost-willing.
That "A Fire in My Belly" is about spirituality, and about AIDS, is beyond doubt.
As shows by troupes like the Civilians inch closer to journalism, questions are raised about their responsibility to journalistic standards.
If you love painting or think you could, consider seeing "The Pitmen Painters," the British play by Lee Hall that the Manhattan Theater Club is presenting on Broadway.
Annie Baker's distinctively bittersweet sounds of silence are echoing throughout the Boston Center for the Arts, where three of her plays are being performed, with considerable skill and aff…
Zora Neale Hurston's "Polk County" has been cut, shaped and wrestled into an uproariously gladdening production at the Arena Stage in Washington.
Zora Neale Hurston's "Polk County" has been cut, shaped and wrestled into an uproariously gladdening production at the Arena Stage in Washington.
All-Black Casts for 'Porgy'? That Ain't Necessarily So
By ANTHONY TOMMASINI
Perhaps the time has come for the Gershwin estate to end its casting directive that "Porgy and Bess" be performed by an all-black cast.
A Revival for a Playwright Who's Funny and Upsetting by BEN BRANTLEY
In his mid-70's, Peter Nichols feels like the freshest thing on the boards in the London theater.