“It’s funny how much 1988 looks like 2008,” said my theater companion as the lights went up on the Second Stage Theatre’s off-Broadway revival of Howard Korder’s Boys’ Life.

I came to college to study theater. Yes—theater. It is a discipline, a subject, a merit-worthy department like any other. But unfortunately, it seems Columbia doesn’t agree.

A playwright may devote months or years to a script, but the process of determining whether it is ready for the stage is much more succinct.

Taking the temperature of a city in the early days of this election year, Paul Scott Goodman is bringing his production, Alive in the World, to the New York stage.

With its twisting and turning plot and not-so-loosely veiled allegories, Into the Woods is far more than just “happily ever after”.

We’ve all been bombarded with posters for casting calls—Into the Woods, Pippin, No Exit, and King Lear, just to name a few—on every flat surface to which tape will adher