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Byline: Helen Shaw The Interview Artist James Grissom met Tennessee Williams-and suddenly knew everybody. Sometime in September, 1982, James Grissom, a twenty-year-old English student at Louisiana State University, receives a [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Summer Preview David Byrne, 'Hamlet' in the Park, 'The Doctor' Compared with the clamor of the spring theatre season, summer is quiet and peaceful. But New York [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Familiar Haunts A sonically thrilling revival of 'Sweeney Todd' on Broadway. 'There's a hole in the world / Like a great black pit / And the vermin [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Georgia on Our Mind The musical 'Parade' revisits the charged trial of Leo Frank. How well do modern theatregoers seeing 'Parade,' at the Bernard B. Jacobs, know [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Close Listening Jessica Chastain stars in 'A Doll's House.' For the long quarter hour before 'A Doll's House' begins, Jessica Chastain sits looking at the audience in [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Village People A revival of Lorraine Hansberry's 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window.' Even though there are big stars in 'The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window'-the Marvel [...]

Helen Shaw In “Small Talk,” Quinn is a Brooklyn stoop philosopher riffing on banter. (ILLUSTRATION BY TATYANA ALANIS) A backdrop, a stool, a beverage, a A microphone. A man wanders [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Lands of the Lost London's 'Orlando,' 'My Neighbour Totoro,' and 'The Burnt City.' Just after Christmas I spent a few greedy, giddy days attending London productions-running through [...]

Not every great movie has a great ending. The reverse is also true: A ho-hum flick can become instantly unforgettable thanks to an awesome conclusion. The end is arguably the [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw New Again 'Merrily We Roll Along' and 'Some Like It Hot.' 'It's our time, breathe it in,' the friends Frank (Jonathan Groff), Charley (Daniel Radcliffe), and Mary [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Backstage Pass 'KPOP' makes an uneasy transition to Broadway. The musical 'KPOP' showcases a variety of modern music-emo meditations, house-inflected bangers, rap arias that transition quickly into [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Salt of the Earth Will Arbery's existential comedy mines our dark moment. There are four vibrant actors in Will Arbery's bracing play 'Evanston Salt Costs Climbing,' at [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Confidence Game Suzan-Lori Parks's tour de force 'Topdog/Underdog' returns to Broadway. A man walks into a dingy apartment wearing a big, down-filled coat. He's bundled up against [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Act, Memory Tom Stoppard resurrects the past in 'Leopoldstadt.' The word on 'Leopoldstadt,' the latest drama by Tom Stoppard (at the Longacre), is that this time, at [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw A One-Man Apotheosis David Greenspan does it all in Gertrude Stein's 'Four Saints in Three Acts.' It's perhaps easiest to describe the Lucille Lortel production of 'Four [...]

Best Classic Camp Text: Gal Gadot's 'Imagine' Video The first truly camp piece of quarantine art washed up on our digital shores like a bloated whale carcass in March, when [...]

Byline: Helen Shaw Folly in the Park Music, high jinks, and community in 'As You Like it.' If on a warm September night you amble through Central Park, you might [...]

Byline: Joan Silber Evolution I was ten when my mother had to take me to the emergency room. I'd sort of skidded on our fire escape while I was recklessly [...]

EVEN IN A MASK, Kirsten Johnson glows like a lighthouse. She walks like one, too: tall and broad-shouldered, her attention sweeping around like a searchlight. 'I think of images as [...]

A SHORT MAN ROARS onstage on a toy-size motorcycle, his black-and-red-checked lumberjack coat swinging open over his bare chest. He spoons up a mouthful of protein powder, spits it out [...]