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George Bernard Shaw's first play, highlighting the social ills of slums, is reframed as an individual's moral struggle in this adaptation at Beckett Theater.

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Friday, March 4, 2016

Review: Tennessee Williams's Late-Career Curiosities by Laura Collins-Hughes

Playhouse Creatures Theater Company presents two of the playwright's one-acts from 1982, the year before he died.

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Thursday, February 25, 2016

Review: 'A Room of My Own' Recalls a Greenwich Village of 1979 by Laura Collins-Hughes

This Charles Messina play features Ralph Macchio and Mario Cantone as part of a brash Italian-American family unconcerned with political correctness.

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Learning to Act, but Hungry for Roles to Practice by Laura Collins-Hughes

A new program at colleges and universities aims at cultivating female playwrights and the creation of more female characters in their work.

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Wednesday, February 24, 2016

Review: In 'The Last Class: A Jazzercize Play,' Clutching to the Past by Laura Collins-Hughes

This comedy by Megan Hill, a real-time dance class of sorts, delves into a fight against Zumba.

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Tuesday, February 23, 2016

Review: In 'Angel Reapers,' Torment and Bliss, Hand in Hand, Seek Connection by Laura Collins-Hughes

Martha Clarke and Alfred Uhry's dance-theater piece follows a band of worshipers in stringent religion who are seeking refuge from worldly suffering.

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Monday, February 22, 2016

Review: In 'The Good Girl,' a Sexbot Gets Weepy by Laura Collins-Hughes

In the postapocalyptic dystopia of Emilie Collyer's feminist sci-fi comedy, which darkens considerably as it goes along, intimacy is constrained.

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Sunday, February 21, 2016

Review: In 'The Woodsman,' a Love Lost in Oz Under a Witch's Spell by Laura Collins-Hughes

James Ortiz's play uses puppets and actors, chorus and a lone violin to reimagine the corner of L. Frank Baum's Oz where the Tin Man came to be.

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Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Marin Mazzie to Return to Broadway in 'The King and I' by Laura Collins-Hughes

Ms. Mazzie, who had to pause her career for cancer treatment last year, is to make her debut in the show on May 3.

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Friday, February 12, 2016

Review: 'The Room,' a Pinter Play That Won't Be Onstage for Long by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Wooster Group's production of Harold Pinter's first play seems doomed not to be seen after Sunday.

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Friday, February 5, 2016

Review: 'The Gambler,' Dostoyevsky With Laughs by Laura Collins-Hughes

Glyn Maxwell's stage adaptation, produced by Phoenix Theater Ensemble, focuses on a hapless tutor and a general with money problems.

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Thursday, February 4, 2016

Review: In 'Washer/Dryer,' a Marriage Goes Through the Spin Cycle by Laura Collins-Hughes

In this play by Nandita Shenoy, the only thing that stands in the way of blissful living is a co-op that a wife refuses to give up.

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Thursday, January 14, 2016

Staceyann Chin Worries About Money, and Selling Out by Laura Collins-Hughes

This performance poet's latest show is "MotherStruck!," at the Culture Project.

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Tuesday, January 12, 2016

Review: 'Museum of Memories' Explores What's Left of a Life Lost by Laura Collins-Hughes

Suicide is at the heart of "Museum of Memories," a production of the European company New International Encounter.

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Thursday, December 31, 2015

A Year of Mourning Steeped in African Tradition Leads to a Theater Piece by Laura Collins-Hughes

Kaneza Schaal's mourning for her father's death led her to create "Go Forth," a performance and installation piece opening at Westbeth Artists Community.

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Wednesday, December 30, 2015

Marin Mazzie on Cancer and Songs in the Key of Life by Laura Collins-Hughes

The Broadway star on the year she's had, how cancer has changed her outlook and why she's talking publicly about her illness.

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Tuesday, December 29, 2015

Review: Blue Man Group Shows a Sense of Fun at Astor Place Theater by Laura Collins-Hughes

The group still performs its signature brand of entertainment at the theater, a space where the company has been performing since 1991.

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Thursday, December 24, 2015

Review: 'Land of Fire' Centers on a Victim Who Reaches Out to a Terrorist by Laura Collins-Hughes

Mario Diament's play, at Theater for the New City, is partly based on the life of Yulie Cohen, an Israeli who sought to forgive a Palestinian involved in the attack that injured her.

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Monday, December 21, 2015

In 'A Wilder Christmas,' Darkness Laced With Sentiment by Laura Collins-Hughes

This double bill of one-acts by Thornton Wilder traces 90 years in the life of a family over a dinner table, and invites audience participation during a fictional train trip.

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Monday, November 30, 2015