Theater

When I walked into Alice Birch’s “Anatomy of a Suicide” at the Atlantic Theater Company, a spell of springlike weather had snapped toward freezing. When I walked out again, the...

MIAMI — With its boarded-up facade eerily lit by a round Miami Beach moon, the Ocean Terrace Hotel looks abandoned. But when the blank metal doors swung open on a...

MINNEAPOLIS — Philip Dawkins asked them to tell him about their childhoods. He has never seen so many grown-ups cry. Sitting across from him in cafes around the Midwest, meeting...

Six years after the explosion that killed 29 coal miners in West Virginia, family members and co-workers of the dead weren’t answering phone calls from the New York playwright. That...

A Pied Piper story that doubles as a boldfaced allegory about class and community, “Where We Stand” is rich in its language but vague about what it truly wants to...

Great playwrights are often eclipsed by their work and the actors who give voice to it, but a coming exhibition dedicated to August Wilson will focus on the man behind...

If you, like me, have an emotional default set to low-level dread, terror lurks everywhere. Consider the climate emergency, the coronavirus, rising far-right extremism, the disappearance of frogs, crimes over...

“Dracula” and “Frankenstein” How to make Dracula both very funny and also politically serious and emotionally piercing? Kate Hamill has figured that dramatic knot out brilliantly in her reimagined Dracula...

MIAMI — With its boarded-up facade eerily lit by a round Miami Beach moon, the Ocean Terrace Hotel looks abandoned. But when the blank metal doors swung open on a...