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‘Las Meninas’ inspires with acting but distracts with anachronisms

For those seeking a show where gender lines are crossed and disbelief is suspended, look no farther than “Las Meninas."

By Miriam Rosen | Apr 21 08:46 pm ET

VIDEO: New Voices New Play Festival Part IV: Tariq Hamami & Melisa Tien

By Nilkanth Patel and Louisa Levy | Aug 30 03:00 am ET

VIDEO: New Voices New Play Festival Part III: E. Dale Smith & Harrison David Rivers

By Nilkanth Patel and Louisa Levy | Aug 30 03:00 am ET

VIDEO: New Voices New Play Festival Part II: Josh Koenigsberg & Ken Kaissar

By Nilkanth Patel and Louisa Levy | Aug 30 03:01 am ET

VIDEO: New Voices New Play Festival Part I: Steven Gridley

By Nilkanth Patel and Louisa Levy | Apr 17 01:01 am ET

Boy's Life

“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.

By Matt Franks | Oct 29 07:39 pm ET

All Our World Is Definitely Not a Stage

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.

By Ariel Hudes | Apr 17 09:53 pm ET

NOMADS Wander Together To Theater Mastery

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.

By Jacqui Stolzer | Feb 29 12:04 am ET

New York Is Alive and Singing

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.

By Laura Hedli | Jan 12 12:15 pm ET

Fairy Tales For Grown-Ups, Sondheim Style

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

By Ginia Sweeney | Nov 30 02:25 am ET

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