17 Off Broadway Shows to Enliven Your October by Laura Collins-Hughes

André De Shields does Molière, Romy and Michele take the stage and Bat Boy makes his return just in time for Halloween.

'The Honey Trap' Is a Thriller That Keeps Audiences Rapt Until the End by Laura Collins-Hughes

For a British soldier, a fatal night out breeds a hunger for revenge in Leo McGann's suspenseful play at Irish Repertory Theater.

'Caroline' Review: Chloë Grace Moretz as a Mother Starting Over by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress stars in a closely observed new drama by Preston Max Allen about addiction, class and the safety of a transgender 9-year-old.

'Waiting for Godot' Review: Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter on Broadway by Laura Collins-Hughes

Jamie Lloyd's pristinely chic Broadway revival of the existential tragicomedy casts the "Bill & Ted" stars Keanu Reeves and Alex Winter as Samuel Beckett's clowns.

In 'Punch' on Broadway, Trying to Summon Empathy for the Unforgivable by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Broadway play "Punch" retells the true story of a fatal blow and how restorative justice brought healing to the parents and to the young man who threw the punch.

'Galas' Review: A Vocally Gifted Paper Doll by Laura Collins-Hughes

Charles Ludlam's camp tribute to Maria Callas, featuring the countertenor Anthony Roth Costanzo, is glamorous to a fault at Little Island.

Keanu Reeves in 'Waiting for Godot' and More Broadway Shows to See This Fall by Laura Collins-Hughes

Season highlights this fall include Michelle Williams in a Eugene O'Neill drama, a new Kristin Chenoweth musical and a revival of "Ragtime."

42 Plays and Musicals to See Across the U.S. This Fall by Laura Collins-Hughes

Highlights include a Prince musical in Minnesota, "Working Girl" in California, a Zora Neale Hurston play in Connecticut and "Paranormal Activity" in Illinois.

Longest-Running Rafiki Says Goodbye to 'The Lion King' by Laura Collins-Hughes

After more than 9,000 performances as the shaman in the Broadway show, Tshidi Manye prepares to hang up her baboon costume.

In London, She Became Musical Theater Royalty. Now She's Back on Broadway. by Laura Collins-Hughes

Marisha Wallace, headlining the final months of "Cabaret" in New York, returns to the city with Olivier nominations and newly minted British citizenship.

'Twelfth Night' Review: Lupita Nyong'o in Illyria by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress is luminous, alongside her look-alike brother Junior Nyong'o, Sandra Oh and Peter Dinklage, in Shakespeare's comedy at the newly revived Delacorte Theater.

Review: Jeff Ross's 'Take a Banana for the Ride' by Laura Collins-Hughes

With mortality on his mind, the insult comic comes to Broadway in a gentle, tough-guy solo show.

'Well, I'll Let You Go' Review: A Fog of Grief by Laura Collins-Hughes

Bubba Weiler's quietly absorbing new play, directed by Jack Serio, is a showcase for a blue-chip cast that includes Quincy Tyler Bernstine and Michael Chernus.

A Dozen Off Broadway Shows to Energize Your August by Laura Collins-Hughes

Elizabeth McGovern channels Ava Gardner, a starry "Twelfth Night" reopens the Delacorte and Luke Newton of "Bridgerton" plays Alexander McQueen.

'Ta-Da!' Review: Josh Sharp Tries a Thing by Laura Collins-Hughes

Sam Pinkleton directs the comedian's well-camouflaged coming-out story.

'The Gospel at Colonus' Review: Singing Hallelujah on the Hudson by Laura Collins-Hughes

In an open-air revival on Little Island in Manhattan, Lee Breuer and Bob Telson's musically sumptuous play follows Oedipus at the end of his life.

'Memnon' Review: To Fight or Not to Fight? by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Will Power's play for the Classical Theater of Harlem, Eric Berryman stars as an Ethiopian king drawn into the Trojan War.

Diana Oh, Passionate Voice for Queer Liberation in Theater, Dies at 38 by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mx. Oh's politically provocative and often playful works, including the Off Broadway production "{my lingerie play}," asserted the right to be oneself while having fun.

'Cold War Choir Practice' Review: When the President Made a Deal by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ro Reddick's music-infused comedy, set during the Cold War, finishes this year's edition of Clubbed Thumb's Summerworks festival on a high.

'Fight Back' Recreates an Act Up Meeting From 1989 by Laura Collins-Hughes

This immersive theater experiment enlists attendees to help recreate an AIDS activist meeting from 1989 as an exercise in empathy.

Broadway Shows Closing Soon: 'Dorian Gray,' 'Sunset Boulevard' and More by Laura Collins-Hughes

Catch two Tony-winning performances, Sarah Snook in the Oscar Wilde classic and Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, before these productions and others wrap up.

13 Off Broadway Shows to See in June by Laura Collins-Hughes

Reed Birney and Lisa Emery in a two-hander, Taylor Mac in a Molière riff and Jay Ellis in a romantic drama " here's what's on New York stages this month.

In One Image: by James Estrin and Laura Collins-Hughes

'Eurydice' Review: Maya Hawke in the Underworld by Laura Collins-Hughes

The actress stars in Sarah Ruhl's reimagining of this classic myth, with a focus on a daughter's reunion with her beloved father after death.

Dozens of Festival Plays Worth Traveling to This Summer by Laura Collins-Hughes and Elisabeth Vincentelli

Across the country, you'll find Shakespeare in amphitheaters, exciting new works on intimate stages and many regional repertories in bucolic settings.

'O.K.!' Review: When the Abortion Clinic Cancels by Laura Collins-Hughes

In Christin Eve Cato's new backstage dramedy, an actress's plan to terminate a pregnancy collides with the rollback of reproductive rights.

'Business Ideas' Review: A Parable in a Cute Cafe by Laura Collins-Hughes

Milo Cramer's new comedy about work, survival and the quest for a meaningful life opens Clubbed Thumb's venerable Summerworks festival.

In 'Irishtown' and 'The Black Wolfe Tone,' Where Are the Rolling Hills? by Laura Collins-Hughes

Two plays at Irish Repertory Theater, one featuring a "Derry Girls" star, explore the real and the mythical in cultural identity.

'Real Women Have Curves' Review: This American (Immigrant) Life by Laura Collins-Hughes

On Broadway, the musical adaptation is a bouncy crowd pleaser about female empowerment, self-acceptance and chasing one's dreams.

'Hold Me in the Water' Review: Smitten, and Primed to Flirt by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ryan J. Haddad follows up his Obie-winning "Dark Disabled Stories" with a rom-com.

'Floyd Collins' Review: Trapped in a Cave and in a Media Circus by Laura Collins-Hughes

One of the wonders of this glorious-sounding new Broadway production is how far from claustrophobic this Kentucky cave saga feels.