989 stories by "Laura Collins-Hughes"
A guide to every show on Broadway, including new musicals, Tony winning-dramas, quirky hits and veterans like "Hamilton" and "Chicago."
The musical, starring Grey Henson, has gotten Buddy delightfully, entirely right. But he is trapped inside a creaky adaptation.
Many Tony Award-winning musicals and starry plays (Robert Downey Jr., anyone?) are wrapping up their runs in January. Catch them while you can.
Tiago Rodrigues's play is intentionally a work of provocation, but it is also stylized to create a helpful distance from events and ideas.
In this first-date comedy, Michael Zegen and Heléne Yorke play people who might just be willing to settle for each other.
In "Give Me Carmelita Tropicana!," Alina Troyano and her former student Branden Jacobs-Jenkins explore the ways art made by one person can live inside others.
"Hothouse," at Irish Arts Center, fends off despair with loopiness; "In the Amazon Warehouse Parking Lot," at Playwrights Horizons, is a fuzzy world lacking depth.
Julianna Margulies and Peter Gallagher star in this quasi romantic comedy adapted from Ephron's memoir, which went deeper into her illness and grief.
The writer Erika Sheffer takes a big swing in a Manhattan Theater Club production examining "the point at which a society finds itself on the brink."
Adapted from the offbeat 2012 film, this new musical about loneliness and the longing for do-overs is promising but still needs to find its shape.
The Off Broadway plays "Fatherland" and "Blood of the Lamb" explore the grief, anger and fear of no longer recognizing the country you love.
But she did "burst into tears" reading Jez Butterworth's rewrite of his new Broadway play, which left her with 10 days "to create an entirely new character."
Holding tightly to the Dublin accent of her character, the actress talks about starring in Nancy Harris's feminist thriller at Irish Rep.
As the acclaimed "Counting and Cracking" makes its North American debut, the playwright describes the work as "my soul on a plate."
The Tony winner leads a top-notch cast in Zhailon Levingston's alluringly designed production of Douglas Lyons's hopeful new play.
New York stages are welcoming Robert Downey Jr., Adam Driver, Audra McDonald and more this season.
Matthew Broderick stars in "Babbitt" in Washington, D.C., and five companies nationwide will stage Eboni Booth's Pulitzer-winning play "Primary Trust."
Kristin Chenoweth stars in "The Queen of Versailles" in Boston, while a new "Gatsby" musical in Cambridge takes Myrtle seriously.
At Lincoln Center Theater, Phillip Howze's daring new play offers a hefty critique but takes aim at more targets than it can accommodate.
Fun is the main point of Carl Cofield's stylish outdoor staging of Shakespeare's comic fantasy for the Classical Theater of Harlem.
Marin Ireland's play opens with Tatiana Maslany in a rotating cast of stars, and "What Became of Us" continues its own experiment with changing casts.
In the Tony-nominated "Mother Play," the writer conjures warm memories and thorny ones, not to judge her mother, but to understand " and to forgive.
Shayan Lotfi's topical play about a family building a new life in a new country leaves the details vague, deliberately.
Madison Ferris and Danny J. Gomez star in the meet-cute "All of Me" " proof that depictions of disability onstage don't have to be "a buzz kill," as Ferris puts it.
In "The Playbook," James Shapiro offers a resonant history of the Federal Theater Project, a Depression-era program that gave work to writers and actors until politics took center stage.
