Theater: A Dramatic Comeback for the Play
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This was the year that the play stood up for itself, reminding us that it can go places inaccessible to other art forms.
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It&#39;s a rare show in the  legitimate theater when the performance is not preceded by a  sepulchral voice reminding you to turn off your cell phone.
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Phantom of the Opera, the film, is reviving theatrical interest.
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A new initiative revives one of the great literary controversies: that the Bard was not who we think he was
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It was an off-Broadway rave, but this play has more trite than bite
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Good, bad or indifferent, one-act plays have been flooding the city's stages.
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The Vineyard Theaterâs rare revival of J. M. Barrieâs elegantly plotted ghost story is an occasion of some interest.
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Thereâs no money in it, but community theater is far from amateurish.
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In this deeply funny play, Horton Footeâs authorial gaze is focused with satiric sharpness while retaining its elegiac sense of lifeâs transience.
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A play by Sophocles from the fifth century B.C. has lessons for todayâs medical students.
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In several new plays, TV shows, and movies, overweight actors reclaim their bodies - and their dignity.
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The arrival of Ivo van Hove's strangely enthralling new production of Henrik Ibsen's drama instantly slips the fall theater season into a higher gear.
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Timing is everything, in comedy and tragedy.
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A newspaper column contains a deal diagram, a bidding sequence and a description of the play.
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Neil LaButeâs âThings We Said Todayâ is the most skillful entry in the first evening of the Ensemble Studio Theaterâs annual two-part marathon of short plays.
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Oren Safdieâs new play about playwriting and generational conflict is sweetly amusing, if dramatically limp.
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When the Lincoln Center  Theater presents a new work by Tom Stoppard, it means one thing  for theatergoers: