While theater is an art form with a shelf life  —  sometimes a show outlives its closing. Such is the story with Bliss Street, an Off-Br...

It was sad to see Ain't No Mo' come and go so quickly, but was Broadway the right place for it? I get the attraction of Broadway. It...

The 2015/2016 theater season has already begun, with the much lauded Broadway premiere of Hamilton (and the less-lauded debut of Amazing Gra...

The Winter's Tale is my personal favorite of Shakespeare's plays. It's also one of the hardest to stage well. Neither comedy nor...

The central question of Joel Drake Johnson's Rasheeda Speaking , currently in previews at the Signature Center, in a production by The N...

Photo: Matthew Murphy Sam Shepard came to prominence chronicling the battered and bruised families of the American West, so it should co...

Rebecca Hall and Morgan Spector in Machinal. Photo: Joan Marcus 2014 was, like most theatre-going years, a grab bag of exquisite highs,...

 photo: Jeremy Daniel Since his brilliant debut play, A Bright New Boise , had its New York premiere in 2010, Samuel D. Hunter's ...

Lost Lake is a brief, largely unsatisfying two-hander that only catches fire in its final moments. As the title suggests, both Hogan (John ...

photo: Monique Carboni   I wasn't around forty-three years ago, when David Rabe's Sticks and Bones premiered at Joseph Papp...

photo: James Leynse   Billy Porter, the talented, Tony-winning star of Kinky Boots , makes his playwriting debut with the autobiograph...