Theater

Sophocles knew: Every family has its issues. And in his famed Theban plays, the social ramifications of this are devastating. In “Oedipus Rex,” Oedipus kills his father and beds his...

PITTSFIELD, Mass. — On Sunday afternoon, Nicholas Edwards rolled the white gaiter over his nose and mouth for the last time. For six weeks, he had been playing Jesus in...

The first time I ever saw Michael Sheen, he was blazing like the sun. He was 30 then, making his Broadway debut as a divinely inspired, impishly behaved Mozart in...

For an enduring figure in the American canon, Henry David Thoreau is needier than you might think. When this relic of the 1800s shows up in Toshiki Okada’s probing, funny,...

In the early days of the pandemic, when someone passed too close to me on the street or in the grocery store, I held my breath. I thought of that...

Steve Carter, an award-winning playwright who explored the African-American and Caribbean-American experiences with incisiveness, humor and a willingness to wrestle with difficult themes, including hatred, revenge and forgiveness, died on...

VENICE — Imagine if Lincoln Center handed the keys to its theaters to little-known American companies for a season. Or if France’s Avignon Festival, one of the biggest theater events...

In the summer of 2008, Kara Young spent a month studying Thai classical theater in Thailand. “Little did I know what the I was getting myself into,” the actress...

Thirty-seven years ago, a wise woman with teased hair and a leopard-print skirt told us that love is a battlefield. Pat Benatar wasn’t talking about the battlefields of Azeroth, the...

The nearest audience member to me on the August evening I saw the socially distanced “Godspell” revival in Pittsfield, Mass., was a dog lying cozily on a blanket next to...