Snapshot: Q. and A.: Martyna Majok, Putting Immigrant Lives on Center Stage
Ms. Majok grew up in a gritty stretch of North Jersey, the daughter of a house cleaner. She now writes plays infused with economic insecurity.
Ms. Majok grew up in a gritty stretch of North Jersey, the daughter of a house cleaner. She now writes plays infused with economic insecurity.
This musical traces the evolution of a 7-year-old who arrives in New York from Nazi-occupied Poland and will grow up to become Ms. Ravan, a rock singer.
The play, by Emily Schwend, is a domestic drama about a young mother raising three children on the low wages of her shift-work jobs.
Casey Llewellyn's play, presented by the Foundry Theater, gives audiences a Grover's Corners concerned with social changes.
This large-cast elegy from the experimental companies Mabou Mines and Trick Saddle mingles Molière with more recent memories.
In a cruel manipulation, a film director casts his wife opposite the actor friend he believes she is enamored with.
This Matt Cox play is a romp through what its subtitle describes as "Seven Increasingly Eventful Years at a Certain School of Magic and Magic."
In this variety-style show, Mr. Hines tells the story of his career rise and that of his brother, Gregory, who died in 2003.
In this musical at the Apollo, a woman returns to the Harlem brownstone where she grew up and revisits a childhood darkened by the death of a sibling.
Part 1 of Mr. Jahnke's trilogy, arriving via Hotel Savant almost five years after Part 3, brings fairy-tale Greek drama to BAM Fisher.
Two crossword enthusiasts meet in an almost empty subway car and wrestle with a contentious mutual attraction.
This 1923 operetta, still deeply satisfying, has been revived by the National Yiddish Theater Folksbiene.
Summer camp romance, rivalry, oddballs and fat jokes all have a role in this production from Vineyard Theater.
This play, presented by Ground Up Productions at 59E59 Theaters, pairs two actors, one self-loathing and suicidal, the other a dedicated conservative Christian.
As a birthday present for her husband, a woman sets up a surprise meeting for him with his biological mother in this play, at Signature Theater.
Fred Sauter and Paul Leschen's new musical features three thinly disguised real stories of besotted people doing crazy things.
An long-ailing woman who would like to die has a proposal for her nurse in Chisa Hutchinson's play, at the National Black Theater.
This show, created for children on the autism spectrum, is a journey into the sky very loosely inspired by Jules Verne's "Around the World in 80 Days."
The Canadian puppeteer kept expectations low for "The Daisy Theater" at Baryshnikov Arts Center, a lightheartedly silly show with subtle intelligence.
The play, written by and starring Antonio Vega, follows a lonely janitor new to the United States.
Times writers share last chance theater picks, including "Here Lies Love," David Byrne and Fat Boy Slim's musical biodrama of Imelda Marcos.
Writers and editors for The New York Times list memorable moments onstage this year.
This rock musical, an import from Iceland, addresses the economic tumult in a town that resides in the titular body part.
The Jonathan Pollard Israeli spy case of the 1980s comes to the stage at the Fourth Street Theater.
"Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead" is being presented by the Acting Company, along with "Hamlet."