Kramer/Fauci” is billed as a verbatim re-creation of a 1993 discussion of the AIDS epidemic on C-SPAN between Dr. Anthony Fauci and Larry Kramer, but the original hour on cable didn’t feature a ...

Czech playwright and politician Vaclav Havel, who would have turned 90 years old this week, was a different kind of president: He too had been an outsider with a visceral understanding of the ...

Under Siege,” an extraordinary work of collective theater written by dozens of Black women playwrights, which is being performed over the weekend in cities across America as part of Fall of ...

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Two more shows have been added to the Broadway season, both light fare meant to delight, while several of the plays I attended this past week were dark, their themes the threat of annihilation, ...

Addressing the audience as his congregation, Jacob Ming-Trent tells us upfront that the story he is about to relate – how a Black, fat, unloved, homeless high school dropout stumbled onto the Bard ...

Almost a decade after we first met the students at the Aburi Girls Boarding School in Jocelyn Bioh’s breakthrough comedy, Paulina, now portrayed by Denée Benton, is as mean as ever, the meanest ...

Like the myth of Pygmalion, the kNOT theater company is bringing visual art to life, weaving together the centuries-old tableau vivant tradition with inventive 21st century approaches to create live ...

In 1933, the Gestapo arrested and imprisoned  Hannah Arendt,  a 26-year-old Jewish scholar, on a charge of treason, carrying a possible death sentence.  This is the true story that inspired Jenny ...

In celebration of the tenth anniversary of the National Museum of African-American History and Culture, which is one of the museums of the Smithsonian targeted for an unprecedented ideological ...

Lupita Nyong’o portrays a woman in the weeks and months and possibly years after she is hit by her boyfriend, in Marin Ireland’s play, reopening tonight at Greenwich House Theater after a short run ...

Below are my two reviews of the original 2011 New York production of “Other Desert Cities,” by Jon Robin Baitz, which I’m resurrecting shortly before the play’s first Broadway revival, set to open ...