There is no playwright alive who understands human motivation and its moral consequences better than John Patrick Shanley. His trilogy, Church and State, began with Doubt, about a war between a...

One has to wonder, were he still with us, what James Beard would think of his eponymous awards gala, held for the 25th time on May 7 at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center, NYC.

For those of you who feel the written word is in disrepair, it was alive and well at PEN’s 8th Annual World Voices Festival held the first week of May in New York City.

It’s extremely rare that Broadway theatre is inventive, compelling, and fun. Such is the case, however, with Peter and the Starcatcher, the prequel to the Peter Pan story

Political theater is almost always problematic. Characters often get lost in the messages they are trying to get across and the messages then feel incomplete or didactic.

Imagine a world of grownups who never got over playing dress-up and you get the general idea behind the International Makeup Artist Trade Show (IMATS), held at Pier 94 in Manhattan on April 14 and 15.

Rarely do we see true beauty in the theater, but Give Me Your Hand provides one of those extremely special moments.

Over the past 25 years, the role of the art fair has evolved with the times.

At their inception, in the 1980s, these were clubby events, and whether...

The New Group, a dynamic organization dedicated to developing new playwrights, has a 15 year history of producing works about the trials and tribulations inherent in...

Neil LaBute is a curious case among screenwriters and playwrights. His pieces often feel didactic and mean-spirited, aimed at the failures of the innocent (like Fat Pig) or...