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If reality television didn't exist, Caden Manson/Big Art Group would have had to invent it. The caterwauling banalities and strenuous camp on more or less constant display in the company's [...]

Ladies and gentlemen of the jury, the defense calls Simon Callow. In the invigorating ''Being Shakespeare,'' now playing at the BAM Harvey Theater, Mr. Callow testifies in support of the [...]

Sure, sure. Ars longa, vita brevis, and all that. But what happens when ars also begins to show its age? The playwright Willy Holtzman dives into this question with ''The [...]

Penn and Teller, meet Wayne and Garth. And another guy. The three beta males laying waste to St. Ann's Warehouse in the delightfully daft ''Elephant Room'' may not have much [...]

Penn and Teller, meet Wayne and Garth. And another guy. The three beta males laying waste to St. Ann's Warehouse in the delightfully daft ''Elephant Room'' may not have much [...]

The ravaged James Tyrone on display at City Center Stage II in the Pearl Theater Company's sure-footed revival of ''A Moon for the Misbegotten,'' as played by Andrew May, has [...]

Too sophisticated for its intended audience and too shrill for the grown-ups in tow, ''Lucky Duck'' is a rare miscalculation for the New Victory Theater. This raucous reboot of ''The [...]

ANYONE thumbing through Tom Hewitt's Playbill biography and noticing a regional production of ''Titanic'' might assume he played the iceberg. After all, that credit is surrounded by a murderer's row [...]

Hindsight may always be 20/20, but the clarity of Simon Van Booy's ''Hindsight'' is much harder to determine. On paper, the story has a chance: An older woman and a [...]

Ethan Lipton, a wry singer-songwriter whose heavy-lidded affability and retro facial hair make him look like a doomed sidekick in a '70s cop movie, grinned upon learning that one collaborator [...]

If you've ever wondered what a plant being Tasered sounds like, wonder no more. In ''Botanica,'' Jim Findlay's overripe juxtaposition of scientific jargon and randy flora, the wildlife endures that [...]

If you've ever wondered what a plant being Tasered sounds like, wonder no more. In ''Botanica,'' Jim Findlay's overripe juxtaposition of scientific jargon and randy flora, the wildlife endures that [...]

Why didn't Henry James think of adding some dragon tattoos and poisoned cups of tea?''Tokio Confidential,'' a new musical by Eric Schorr, has plenty to recommend it, not least a [...]

''SATURN RETURNS'' is the 1998 song cycle that helped cement Adam Guettel's reputation as one of musical theater's most daringly rhapsodic composers. A repurposed version opens Wednesday under its original [...]

Whether you prefer your war stories low key or over the top, hesitant or harrowing, ''Gonna See a Movie Called Gunga Din'' has you covered. In this kaleidoscope of real-life [...]

Grief causes people to do odd things. Like sniff their grown daughter's bra. (Not while it's being worn, but still.) Or pinch a police officer. Twice. These coping styles -- [...]

A more sensationalist entity than the proud-to-be-prickly Under the Radar festival might have given ''Chimera'' a sexier title, like, say, ''I Am My Own Sister'' or ''Invasion of the Body [...]

''BLOOD KNOT,'' the 1961 play that vaulted Athol Fugard into international prominence, features two young South African men, one black and one white, grappling over what the world owes them. [...]

ASKED to recall unforgettable moments from the year in theater, one writer after another for The New York Times suggested scenes from Jez Butterworth's ''Jerusalem,'' which won Mark Rylance a [...]

The easily disoriented title character of ''Shlemiel the First'' sets out on a multiyear sojourn, only to return to his town a few hours later. The musical bearing his name, [...]

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 [...]

''Richard II'' is essentially one long, lilting diminuendo, as Shakespeare's titular monarch philosophizes and blunders his way into an early grave. J. R. Sullivan's production for the Pearl Theater Company [...]

The dungeon master, that eight-sided-dice-wielding arbiter in any Dungeons & Dragons game, serves as a potent metaphor in ''She Kills Monsters,'' Qui Nguyen's deceptively breezy and rather ingenious comedy. The [...]

Thickets of George Orwell's robust prose fill the stage in Ryan Kiggell's adaptation of ''Burmese Days,'' which opened on Wednesday night at 59E59 Theaters as part of the Brits Off [...]

In ''69degreesS.,'' which opened Wednesday night at the BAM Harvey Theater, Ernest Shackleton and his five shipwrecked crew members look decidedly stoic. Their impassive faces could easily stem from typical [...]

When you arrive at the Nuyorican Poets Cafe in the East Village, the usher hands you a program and a few extra photocopied sheets. One shows a familiar face: that [...]

More than a handful of names have been made at the New York Musical Theater Festival. The impish ''[title of show]'' duo Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell, the Pulitzer Prize-winning [...]

Change is in the air in Sylvan Oswald's ''Nightlands,'' and neither its beneficiaries nor its potential victims know quite what to make of it. Mr. Oswald betrays a similar level [...]

From the very first moments of ''Septimus and Clarissa,'' Ellen McLaughlin's relentlessly, almost nerve-rackingly ambitious adaptation of Virginia Woolf's ''Mrs. Dalloway,'' a bold visual gauntlet is thrown down. We are [...]

''Do you have any title of nobility in any foreign country?'' If so, have I got a show for you. There's just one catch: You must ''absolutely and entirely renounce [...]

IF Caryl Churchill, Franz Kafka and Ali G were to goof around one night and play their music too loud until the Department of Homeland Security came knocking on their [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED Bring comfortable shoes and a high threshold for frustration to the Woodshed Collective's sprawling production ''The Tenant,'' the latest in a proliferating mini-genre of immersive-spookhouse mood pieces. As [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED EVERY Broadway musical has its originalists, the devotees who judge every subsequent production against the memory of the first one. The you-had-to-be-there contingent is particularly strong for ''Follies,'' [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED TONIO and Consuelo, the wanderlusty aviator and the exotic widow at the center of the new musical ''Saint-Ex,'' give voice to their tempestuous relationship by singing, ''Love is [...]

This isn't your grandparents' ''Wizard of Oz.'' Or your parents' ''Wiz.'' Or your older sister's ''Wicked.'' ''The Yellow Brick Road,'' the 2011 entry in TheaterWorks USA's dependably diverting free summer [...]

The prospect of spending a recent sweltering evening in the company of Danny Aiello, who is starring in the title role of ''The Shoemaker,'' was discomfiting. After all, when last [...]

''WORLD WAR I is thought of as this old-fashioned war,'' the director Garry Hynes said, ''but to my point of view it has the force of an apocalypse.'' Ms. Hynes, [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED At what point does fair warning cross over into shrewd marketing? The Web site for ''MoLoRa,'' a sporadically riveting take on Aeschylus by the South African playwright and [...]

Give credit where it's due. In inaugurating its debut season with James Baldwin's rarely staged play ''Blues for Mister Charlie,'' New Haarlem Arts Theater hardly played it safe. (Its second [...]

For much of the 1980s and beyond ''Mama, I Want to Sing'' was a fixture among Harlem audiences, logging more than 2,500 performances. This mom-and-pop gospel musical also yielded a [...]

''Our Greatest Year,'' Robert Attenweiler's tender and knowing inquiry into just why sports fans are so messed up, takes its time listening to what its characters say (or don't say) [...]

CORRECTION APPENDED 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 [...]

TWENTY Broadway productions have featured animals trained by the 2011 Tony honoree William Berloni over the past 35 years; exactly none of this year's nominated shows are among them. At [...]

BROADWAY bears a distinct resemblance to a wildlife preserve these days, with its war horses and Bengal tigers jockeying for Tony Awards Sunday night (and flying spiders biding their time [...]

A World Trade Center view no longer exists by the beginning of ''WTC View,'' Brian Sloan's uneven account of tentative love and palpable loss in the weeks after 9/11. That [...]

Thanks to two central performances that go a long way toward transcending the occasional placeholder melody and clunky double entendre (O.K., the more-than-occasional clunky double entendre), ''Lucky Guy'' is more [...]

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 [...]

Empty beer bottles on every surface, a sullen post-adolescent in the corner and not an interpersonal boundary in sight: this is the pungent but predictable setting of ''Little Black Dress,'' [...]

It's the end of the world as we know it, or mighty close to it, in Laurel Haines's agreeably disjointed ''Future Anxiety,'' which opened on Thursday night at the Flea [...]