Helen Shaw

In two new shows, the Oscar-nominated, Tony Award-winning star and F. Murray Abraham play against their younger selves.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning play, set in an E.S.L. classroom in Iran, examines the internal displacements of learning a language.

Highlights include a spare reworking of the 1927 musical “Show Boat” and a surprisingly touching new piece by the shock connoisseur Ann Liv Young.

Remembering the avant-garde theatre director and beloved emperor of downtown.

Joe’s Pub, Mx. Justin Vivian Bond, Murray Hill: A Murray Little Christmas, and Bridget Everett

In the latest revival of Arthur Laurents, Stephen Sondheim, and Jule Styne’s iconic musical, George C. Wolfe humanizes a famously monstrous stage mother.

This year’s standout productions ran the gamut from outrageously fabulous to quasi-religious in feeling.

Two scathing new productions satisfy our hunger for dysfunction-driven entertainment.

In the nineteen-eighties and nineties, the actor, writer, and director ushered in a Golden Era of Shakespeare plays on film the likes of which we haven’t seen since.

The audience gets what it paid for in both the musical adaptation of the 1992 film, with Megan Hilty and Jennifer Simard, and a new show about the treadmill of life.