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Byline: Rhoda Feng In his memoir 'Autoportrait' (2022), Jesse Ball wrote that he likes to carry around binoculars. This allows him to look at both 'far things' and 'small things,' [...]

In ''Someone Spectacular,'' Domenica Feraud skewers group therapy and the futility of sharing trauma in a fishbowl. The Irish literary critic Vivian Mercier once wrote that ''Waiting for Godot'' is [...]

Julia May Jonas turns the menacing male siblings of Sam Shepard's ''True West'' into squabbling pregnant sisters in Vermont. When we first see Rory (Annie Fox) she is flaunting a [...]

Despite a juicy premise, this Colt Coeur production, starring Tim Daly and Jayne Atkinson, never manages to take off. In her essay ''The Carrier Bag Theory of Fiction,'' the novelist [...]

Byline: Rhoda Feng NEW YORK - Ç£To cut or not to cut? That is the question,Ç¥ mocks an actor in Suzan-Lori ParksÇÖs leaden, overworked Ç£Sally & Tom.Ç¥ While rehearsing a [...]

Byline: Rhoda Feng In a deracinated, begrimed landscape, a cluster of trees marks the only sign of life. Among the rubble are a dusty tire, a car frame, wire netting, [...]

Kate Taney Billingsley's play starts with a fictional apology, but then segregated choirs and a racist waitress create tonal dissonance. In a greasy spoon just off the New Jersey Turnpike, [...]

Themes of incest and sexual abuse of minors loom large in this strikingly becalmed play named after a legendarily vengeful Greek mother. ''Munich Medea: Happy Family'' carries the wrong trigger [...]

Deepali Gupta offers a meandering and muddled take on the trial of Rajat Gupta, a former head of McKinsey & Company. ''The problem with exposition is, why would you want [...]

Time -- and a whole lot more -- stands still in Owen Panettieri's static drama about a doomsday prepper. Owen Panettieri's play ''The Lights Are On'' offers a dispiriting preview [...]

Emma Horwitz makes her Off Broadway debut with an adventurous retelling of a devotional play from the 10th century. Disco balls were nowhere in evidence in 10th-century Germany, but it [...]

Despite its thunderbolt of a title, the focus of this memory play is on the relationship between a self-involved author and his long-suffering agent. Amid an ongoing strike by Hollywood [...]

The gravitational pull of the hurts of yesteryear is on vivid display in Deirdre Kinahan's drama at Irish Repertory Theater. Back stories can be dangerous things. A character besotted with [...]

Byline: Rhoda Feng By Thao Thai Mariner. 334 pp. $30 - - - In Ocean Vuong's 'On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous,' the narrator notes that 'in Vietnamese, the word for [...]

The New York Classical Theater adaptation, playing in New York's city parks, feints toward novelty but offers little in the way of originality. The idea of an ''all-female, gender-fluid, disability [...]

In this ''Pride and Prejudice'' spinoff from Original Theatre, Jane Austen's infamous knave attempts to set the record straight. It is a truth universally acknowledged that the human body is [...]

Byline: Rhoda Feng By Ava Chin Penguin Press. 400 pp. $28 - - - Ava Chin's 'Mott Street: A Chinese American Family's Story of Exclusion and Homecoming' begins with a [...]

In her new play, Lauren Gunderson explores the legacy of the 18th-century French mathematician and philosophe Emilie du Châtelet. ''Emilie: La Marquise du Châtelet Defends Her Life Tonight'' starts with [...]

These actors turned playwrights all excavate memories and meaning from their lives in creating these four shows, which arrive in New York in the coming months. Arinzé Kene LONDON -- [...]

Byline: Rhoda Feng Nobel laureate and Turkey's most famous living author Orhan Pamuk recently opened his Museum of Innocence in Istanbul's Cukurcuma neighborhood. Housed in a wine-red, four-story building constructed [...]