Plays

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.