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The New Yorker Interview

Amy Herzog Wants You to Enter Into the Strangeness of Caregiving

The playwright on the new production of her play “Mary Jane,” which stars Rachel McAdams as the mother of a two-year-old born with serious medical conditions.
The Theatre

Ralph Fiennes Sidles His Way Into Power as Macbeth

A hit British production of Shakespeare’s ever-timely tragedy arrives in D.C.
2023 in Review

This Year’s Best Theatre

On Broadway and off, a return to deep introspection—and Stephen Sondheim.
The Theatre

High Camp and High Tragedy in Two Electrifying Off Broadway Productions

Becca Blackwell and Amanda Duarte play exuberant, boundary-pushing alter egos, and the Irish Rep revives Brian Friel’s stately “Translations.”
Culture Desk

“Death of a Salesman” Reborn, This Time in Mandarin

A new play turns Arthur Miller’s experience of directing the play in Beijing into a bilingual meditation on cross-cultural encounters.
Cultural Comment

Jon Fosse, the Nobel Prize, and the Art of What Can’t Be Named

In his novels and plays, the Norwegian author has continually probed the limits of the perceptible world.
Q. & A.

Larissa FastHorse Becomes the First Native American Woman to Bring a Show to Broadway

The playwright behind “The Thanksgiving Play” discusses her satire of theatre and U.S. history, the enduring prevalence of “redface” in casting, and how a background in ballet made her a better writer.
Persons of Interest

Jodie Comer Puts Her Talents on Trial

The actress often plays women defined by their mastery. In “Prima Facie,” she takes on her toughest role yet: a lawyer who defends men accused of sexual assault.
The Theatre

The Wounded Bluesmen of “Hang Time”

In Zora Howard’s play, at the Flea, three Black men hanging in midair discuss their world views, seemingly stuck in the gray gap between life and death.
The Theatre

Jessica Chastain’s Close Listening in “A Doll’s House”

Jamie Lloyd’s ascetic production of Ibsen’s 1879 drama eliminates nearly every conventional marker of character, location, or gesture.
The Theatre

A Minor Play by Lorraine Hansberry Gets Lost in a Major Revival

Oscar Isaac and Rachel Brosnahan star in “The Sign in Sidney Brustein’s Window.”
The Theatre

A “Piano Lesson” with No False Notes

LaTanya Richardson Jackson directs a stunning encore of August Wilson’s most enigmatic work.
The New Yorker Interview

Tom Stoppard Faces His Family’s Past

A conversation with the playwright about the long journey to “Leopoldstadt,” which has just come to Broadway.
The Theatre

Fall Theatre Preview

The Broadway transfer of “KPOP,” “1776” with a twist, Tom Stoppard’s personal new play, “Leopoldstadt,” and more.
The Theatre

Harmonic Lightscapes in Two Furtively Spiritual Plays

In both Will Arbery’s “Corsicana” and Brian Watkins’s “Epiphany,” the terror of love and the agonies of belief are illuminated by the sensitive lighting design of Isabella Byrd.
Cultural Comment

The Tensions of Modern Britain in Jez Butterworth’s “Jerusalem”

The 2009 play, currently in revival, finds new resonance in a post-Brexit reality and with Boris Johnson hanging on at 10 Downing Street.
Culture Desk

The 2022 Tony Awards: How Broadway Got Its Groove Back

Ariana DeBose shined as the host, Michael R. Jackson’s “A Strange Loop” was deservedly awarded, and the night was high-spirited fun.
The Theatre

Sarah Silverman’s Childhood Pee Problem Takes Center Stage

“The Bedwetter” turns the comedian’s memoir into a goofy, sweet, and hopeful musical.
Onward and Upward with the Arts

A Hamlet for Our Time

In a bold new production, the director Robert Icke finds resonances in Shakespeare’s canonical play which make it feel made for this moment.
The Theatre

Daddy Issues in a Pair of Plays

James Ijames’s Pulitzer Prize-winning “Fat Ham,” at the Public, and Édouard Louis’s “Who Killed My Father,” at St. Ann’s Warehouse, both feature queer, questioning, father-haunted protagonists.