107 stories by "Naveen Kumar"
Wesley Du explores complex intersections of identity in a coming-of-age story about a Chinese American boy who finds escape in Black music.
Three women seeking companionship turn to an Alexa-like digital presence in this family drama at Ensemble Studio Theater.
The play, directed by Caitlin Sullivan at the Connelly Theater, focuses on two girls in the year leading up to the action depicted in "The Crucible."
At the Shed, Arinzé Kene mixes spoken word, music and comedy to tell a story of racial tension and male identity in a changing London.
The playwright Emily Feldman structures this work like a personal GPS that plots the course of a family.
Stale views of gender dynamics power Eric Bogosian's play about an aspiring actress caught in the clutches of a duplicitous man.
Reich, a comedian and writer, transforms into the avatar of Gen Z disaffection in his taut, biting solo show at Greenwich House Theater.
A workplace comedy set at home, this cleverly detailed production explores child care as both labor and primal instinct.
The national controversy surrounding Maya Lin's design for the Vietnam War Memorial is the subject of Livian Yeh's nimble, process-driven play.
In his show about mourning his boyfriend, the comedian Sam Morrison confronts overwhelming loss with punch lines and panache.
The British comedian Eddie Izzard plays every part in this relatively straightforward adaptation of Charles Dickens's classic story.
Transforming beloved IP into compelling musical theater is an inexact science, but the transformation part is nonnegotiable. As the discard pile of recent VHS-inspired flops can attest, audi…
Bleu Beckford-Burrell's play about a City Council campaign aims to catalog a gamut of social ills and how Black women rise to meet them.
Evocative choreography and warm performances hold together Harrison David Rivers's play about the slippages between desire and trauma.
In an autobiographical solo show at the Public Theater, Madeline Sayet grapples with her Indigenous ancestry and the responsibility that comes with her name.
A father and a son recall parallel journeys that reflect shared experiences of otherness in Jeff Augustin's play, performed with music by the Bengsons.
Hanya Yanagihara's best-selling novel comes to the BAM stage, and raises the question: How much suffering can the protagonist (and the audience) endure?
Two men circling each other for a hookup talk through fantasies and everyday doubts in this play by Jacob Perkins.
Irreverence can be illuminating. But Bedlam's energetic productions of classics by Ibsen and Shakespeare lose insight in the process.
Jonathan Rockefeller's Off Broadway production blends the charm and wit of the show's early days with more modern characters.
Aya Ogawa's memoir-like excavation tests the boundaries of love and family obligation through intimate confession.
The new musical, based on the novel by Patrick McCabe, follows a boy in 1960s Ireland as he recounts a tale of boyhood mischief and alienation.
The playwright Kathy Ng imagines a world where mortality, eroticism and Hello Kitty collide in a spirited, if sometimes muddled, contemplation of loneliness and loss.
The first male contestant in his small-town beauty pageant is determined to win hearts, minds and the crown, in this solo play from the writer and performer Neil D'Astolfo.
Tearrance Arvelle Chisholm's ambitious and sometimes metaphysical comedy playfully tries to tackle thorny issues at 59E59 Theaters.
