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Cites four Academy Award-winning actresses that have produced one-woman shows in New York City. Involvement of Angelica Huston in "Belfast Blues"; Meryl Streep in "Bridge & Tunnel"; Anne Bancroft in "Squeeze Box."

The article presents reminiscences and memories by theater directors, artistic directors, and playwrights of the Ohio Theatre in New York City. Directors featured include Robert Lyons, Alex Timbers, Kip Fagan, and John Collins. Playwrights featured include Tony Kushner and Adam Bock. Topics discussed include set design for theatrical productions, rats, the use of factory space for theater, performing during heat waves, a visit to the theater by Czech playwright Václav Havel, and productions such as "Dance Dance Revolution," "The Importance of Being Earnest," and "No Plays No Poetry."

The article reviews two theatrical productions such as "Fashions for Men," which was held at Mint Theater and "Everything You Touch," starring Tonya Glanz and Christian Coulson, which was held at the Cherry Lane Theater in New York City.

The article discusses the Making Waves: New Romanian Cinema, film festival held in New York City from December 8, 2014, which featured the films "The Second Game," "I'm an Old Communist Hag," and "The Japanese Dog."

The article previews several theatrical productions in New York City for May 2014 including "The City of Conversation" directed by Doug Hughes and starring Jan Maxwell, David Van Asselt's play "A Fable" directed by Daniel Talbott and "The Few" directed by Davis McCallum.

The article previews several theatrical productions in New York City that would close on April 11-13, 2014 including a revival of Paula Vogel's play "And Baby Makes Seven," "Appropriate" directed by Liesl Tommy and starring Johanna Day, and "Breathing Time" by Beau Willimon.

The article previews several theatrical productions in New York City including "Act One" directed by James Lapine and starring Santino Fontana, "Breathing Time" directed by Aaron Rossini, and "Bullets Over Broadway" starring Zach Braff, Marin Mazzie and Lenny Wolpe.

The article previews several theatrical productions in New York City for March 2014 including the musical "Aladdin" directed by Casey Nicholaw and starring James Monroe Iglehart, "Appropriate" by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins, and "Bullets over Broadway" directed and choreographed by Susan Stroman.

Wonderment comes roughly in four-minute intervals at the New Victory Theater these days. That's about how much time is given to each sequence in Cirque Shanghai's ''Bai Xi,'' which translates rather hyperbolically to ''100 amazing acts.'' The title overstates the number of acts by about 80, but that's the only example of overpromising in this child-friendly spectacle of traditional and updated Chinese acrobatics. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

PERFORMING two of Shakespeare's ''problem plays'' in repertory during the wilting summer nights, contending all the while with low-flying helicopters and errant raccoons, can be challenging. But summer at the Delacorte Theater in Central Park, where ''Measure for Measure'' and ''All's Well That Ends Well'' are both in previews, should be a snap for John Cullum. After all, this is a man who not too long ago opened ''August: Osage County'' with what amounted to a 16-minute monologue, then made a brisk walk to his second performance of the night -- a Tom Stoppard translation of the Gerald Sibleyras drama ''Heroes'' -- with a quick stop at a 99-cent pizza stand on the way. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Much of ''Radio Play,'' a formless jumble of dopey humor and loopy music, by Tommy Smith and the alt-comedy darling Reggie Watts, is performed in almost complete darkness. This places a higher premium on what we hear as opposed to on what we see -- a shift in focus that, Mr. Watts's considerable musical gifts notwithstanding, doesn't always play to his strengths. Before the lights go down, the audience at Performance Space 122 is treated to Seth Reiser's wondrous set, a Luddite's paradise of reel-to-reel players, turntables, thick wires and other bulky remnants of predigital life. (Is that a microfiche machine in the back?) The eye searches somewhat anxiously for a surge protector. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Reports on the staging of several haunted house shows by the up-and-coming theater company Les Frères Corbusier in Manhattan, New York City.

Reports on the casting of John Ahlin to the title role of the theatrical production "Orson's Shadow," at the Barrow Street Theater in New York City.

Reports on the presentation of the musical "A Midsummer's Night's Dream," at the Avery Fisher Hall in New York City on March 17, 2005.

Two of New York's most important experimental theater festivals, Under the Radar and Coil, have been running concurrently in January. Following are reviews of shows in the festivals. Information on Under the Radar: www.undertheradarfestival.com; for Coil: www.ps122.org/performances/coil--2011.html. Even if you're overstuffed and partied-out from last month's holiday marathon, you should still try to make the acquaintance of one special ghost of Christmas future haunting the Under the Radar Festival at the Public Theater through Saturday. In the Teatro en el Blanco's ''Diciembre'' (yes, that's Spanish for December), Guillermo Calderon envisions Dec. 25 in Chile in 2014. And if the view ain't pretty, it is highly picturesque -- a witty, sharply focused vision of a time well past celebration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]