Theater

The aftermath of a horrifying mass shooting is not the cheeriest subject for the theater, although these days, it is…

“Bang. You’re dead.” It is June 28, 1914; Gavrilo Princip shoots the Archduke Ferdinand and his wife. World War I…

Playwright Lauren Yee calls her play “Hookman” an “existential slasher comedy.” And Steep Theatre’s new production takes her up on…

“Battlefield,” prodigious director Peter Brook’s unusual new offering, presents a small portion of the “Mahabharata,” the ancient Sanskrit epic poem…

A retired English banker, who wants nothing more then to tend his dahlia bulbs, has his quiet country life commandeered…

“Not About Nightingales,” an early Tennessee Williams script, is a Depression-era tragedy with many elements that foretell Williams’ genius as…

You can associate any one of many ferocious animals with the formidable, fiendish, she-devil of a school headmistress, Agatha Trunchbull,…

“Temple,” a U.S. premiere production at the Aurora Theatre, is a powerful exposition on how the religious officials of London’s…

A break room in a Detroit auto plant functions as more than a place to store lunch, drink coffee, and…

“Linda Vista,” in its world premiere at Steppenwolf Theatre, is a smart and thoroughly entertaining production—a very adult comedy—funny, sexy…

“Hershey Felder as Irving Berlin” is one in a series of one-man musical biographies written and performed by Hershey Felder….

Like a speeding bulldozer crushing everything in its path, a nightmarish past comes barreling back into the lives of two…

Adapt! is a new play written and directed by Blanka Zizka, cofounder of the Wilma Theater and is having its…

A confession is in order. I love Sondheim. I adored “Into The Woods” when it was presented by The Oregon…