179 stories by "Helen Shaw"
In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film the likes of which we haven't seen since.
The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show about the treadmill of life.
The playwright Branden Jacobs-Jenkins and the performance artist Alina Troyano summon downtown's wild spirit, and Elevator Repair Service revives its signature hit.
Jamie Lloyd casts Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond, and Kit Connor and Rachel Zegler play a Gen Z version of Shakespeare's famous lovers.
Kenneth Lonergan explores the emptiness of celebrity in "Hold On to Me Darling," while Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" proves as moving as ever.
In Jez Butterworth's melancholy drama and David Henry Hwang's mischievously postmodern play, stardom is both a lure and a lie.
A Midwestern empty nester opens her home to a tough-talking New Yorker in Jen Silverman's sputtering star vehicle.
A series of international productions held power to account at a fraught moment.
The directors Zhailon Levingston and Bill Rauch cross Andrew Lloyd Webber's juggernaut musical with queer ballroom culture to electrifying effect.
The British playwright Lucy Kirkwood's "The Welkin" exorcises the jury-room drama.
In the playwright's début film, "Janet Planet," Julianne Nicholson stars as an object of obsession for her daughter"and everyone else"over the course of a long, hot summer in the Berkshires.
Superb stagecraft illuminates Robert Ickes's "Player Kings," Benedict Andrews's "The Cherry Orchard," and Ian Rickson's "London Tide."
Paula Vogel's "Mother Play," Shaina Taub's "Suffs," and Amy Herzog's "Mary Jane" strike back at the mother-as-monster dramatic trope.
David Adjmi's cult-hit play features seventies-inspired rock songs by Will Butler, while Eddie Redmayne presides over a demonic version of the Kit Kat Club.
A hit British production of Shakespeare's ever-timely tragedy arrives in D.C.
The Wooster Group gives the Richard Foreman play "Symphony of Rats" its signature spins.
The 1993 musical's already bizarre story, derived from Pete Townshend's beautiful 1969 album, is even less clear in Des McAnuff's reanimation for Broadway.
A director of the modern uncanny steers the first Broadway production of Chekhov's masterpiece in twenty years.
Dominique Morisseau revives her 2012 drama about a daughter, part revolutionary, part survivor, whose father devoted his life to the struggle for Black liberation.
Sarah Gancher's "Russian Troll Farm" and Sasha Denisova's "My Mama and the Full-Scale Invasion" look for truth in a world of lies.
With "Bark of Millions," "Oh, Mary!," and "Aristotle Thinks Again," the fabulousness on New York's stages seems to have reached a critical mass.
At the first rehearsal for Suzanne Bocanegra's "Bodycast," Ruth Negga practices playing Bocanegra, who practices sitting onstage and muttering lines to Negga.
Shayok Misha Chowdhury turns to fine-grained realism in his extraordinary bilingual drama.
The playwright Joshua Harmon broaches profound questions of Jewish identity in his drama, but a bigger stage and a changed moment reveal its flaws.
Remembering the activism and artistry of a New York theatre hero.
