87 stories by "Rachel Saltz"
Senel Paz's play "Strawberry & Chocolate" mines the subjects of sexual orientation and revolutionary politics in Cuba during the early 1980s.
In "Sarah Flood in Salem Mass," two friends travel back through time to try to right some wrongs in the era of the witchcraft trials.
J. M. Barrie's "Peter Pan" is given a modern suburban, and Australian, twist.
"Philip Goes Forth" is the first New York revival of George Kelly's 1931 play.
A cross-country trip is still fresh in the mind of an Irish immigrant in "The Compass Rose," part of the 1st Irish Festival.
In the comedy "Harbor," a gay couple's household is shaken up when a family member moves in.
In Sara Farrington's "Requiem for Black Marie," it's Bertolt Brecht's women who do all the heavy lifting of authorship.
Jen Silverman's "Phoebe in Winter," at the Wild Project, has a fablelike quality and a Brechtian plot.
A man and a woman find friendship at a nursing home in Ireland in the play "These Halcyon Days," at the Irish Arts Center.
"How Sweet It Is," an ode to the healing powers of musical theater, centers on a washed-up, alcoholic Broadway producer and a Mafia don to whom he owes money.
Set in 1978 Frankfurt, "In a Year With 13 Moons" is a stage adaptation of Rainer Werner Fassbinder's film.
A grieving mother, whose son has died in Iraq, turns to flag burning and spray painting in "Sleeping Rough," by Kara Manning.
"Shaheed: The Dream and Death of Benazir Bhutto," a one-woman show written and performed by Anna Khaja at the Culture Project, explores the assassinated prime minister of Pakistan.
"Jesus in India," by Lloyd Suh and starring Justin Blanchard, follows Jesus as a teenage runaway rocker.
"Working on a Special Day," about the friendship between a homemaker and her neighbor in 1938 Rome, is a stage adaptation of a 1977 film.
A Russian-language adaptation of Tolstoy's "Family Happiness," with layers serious and silly, is playing at the Baryshnikov Arts Center.
"Bumbug" is a sung-through rock adaptation of "A Christmas Carol," set among South Asians in New York.
The troupe Circus Oz, from Melbourne, Australia, blends comedy, music, acrobatics, trapeze and spectacle at the New Victory Theater.
"My Name Is Asher Lev," adapted from Chaim Potok's novel, centers on a young man dealing with traditional Hasidic expectations and the outside pull he feels as an artist.
Dave Malloy's "Natasha, Pierre & the Great Comet of 1812," an electro-pop opera, is based on part of "War and Peace."
"The Why Overhead," by Adam Szymkowicz, depicts the consequences of workplace tedium in comic, even musical, terms.
From Japan, a mordant musical about a Tokyo funeral parlor run by the dead.
The solo show "Brontë: A Portrait of Charlotte" is missing the one thing it needs: a sense of the genius of Charlotte Brontë.
"A Letter to Harvey Milk," part of the New York Musical Theater Festival, is a sentimental look at Jewishness and gayness.
"Love Goes to Press," a romantic comedy about two female war correspondents, is at the Mint Theater Company.
