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Behar has written a show of eight monologues crafted from interviews with women about their divorces.
Playwright Abe Koogler's portrait of a group of Pacific Northwesterners is rich, funny and devastating, with a cast that's a tasting menu of acting brilliance.
Broadway has George Clooney and two different shows based on TV series. Downtown has space travel and T.S. Eliot. Brooklyn has Chekhov and an ant invasion. This theater season, there's somet…
This two-hander about estranged half-brothers with a dying mother is painfully gorgeous.
An endearing but inconsistent exploration of love, loss and motherly meddling.
"There's a very special relationship between a mother and a gay son and an extremely special relationship between a mother and a gay Italian son," says playwright Matthew Lombardo, who's mad…
Menzel remains an indomitable diva in this well-intentioned misfire.
Nearly a quarter century after its Broadway debut, the Tony winning musical is back at City Center Encores. Does its ghoulish giddiness still work?
The human race is presented like a museum exhibit"a grimly compelling concept, but one that makes for a glitchy play.
She grew up on TV in 'Little House on the Prairie,' but now she gets a chance to play a real grown-up in this Off Broadway two-hander about a couple who love each other, but not each other's…
In Khawla Ibraheem's one-woman play a mother tries to go about her life in Gaza"including preparing for the possibility that her house will be destroyed.
Pulitzer Prize winner Sanaz Toossi's play about a group of Iranians studying for the Test of English as a Foreign Language transfers to Broadway in an impeccable production.
This minimalist staging strips 'Show Boat' to its bones, scraping away a century of cultural rust and sentimentality to reveal an often deeply sad and frequently funny masterpiece of music-t…
Observer caught up with the art space's artistic director and president to learn more about what the institution has in store for the coming year.
Mare Winningham plays the matriarch of a family gathered around the Christmas tree to air some serious issues. "I thought, 'Well, it's called Cult of Love, so there has to be a leader," she …
Audra McDonald is the first Black actress to play Madame Rose on Broadway, and she and director George C. Wolfe deliver what may be the most heartstopping 'Gypsy' you'll ever see.
Jonathan Spector's play, about vaccine politics splintering a school board, is one big Learning Moment that pretty much everyone fails.
A private school agonizes over what to do about an outbreak of mumps in playwright Jonathan Spector's 'Eureka Day,' which he tells Observer started out as "a funny play about serious things."
Francis Jue talks with Observer about his role in the Broadway revival of David Henry Hwang's 'Yellow Face.' "David wrote it 20 years ago, but it feels like it's a play of today. We're still…
Four shipwreck survivors sing their way through despair, but 'Swept Away' capsizes under its uninspired score.
The star of the new musical on learning to move like a robot and how he first caught the acting bug.
The great Kenneth Branagh leads and co-directs a decidedly not-great production of the Shakespeare tragedy.
This Broadway show about robots in love has rapturous music and lyrics, innovative staging and a superb cast. In short, an extraordinary work of theatre artistry.
This absurdist comedy"the final production to run at Soho Rep"has a hallucinogenic plot that brings to mind the days when artistic risk was the norm and downtown performance art was in high …
Set about 15 years from now, this future fable takes place in and around a shipping center in Wyoming as rising sea levels are swallowing American states east and west.
