Willem Dafoe returns to the stage in Idiot Savant—and it’s a blast. (So what if it doesn’t make sense.)

The first-ever Broadway revival of Finian’s Rainbow is one hot plate of crazy. In a good way.

The revival of Brighton Beach Memoirs tries to transcend its tummler underpinnings.

Sienna Miller and Jonny Lee Miller heat up the icy After Miss Julie. Plus: The Memphis blues.

In Oleanna, Julia Stiles transcends David Mamet's agitprop script; in The Royal Family, Rosemary Harris is just transcendent. Plus: Ann Landers, a woman who really knew her audience.

The season’s October boomlet, from Hamlet to Princess Leia.

What our critics are most eager for this fall.

Some movie stars hint at the potential for onstage greatness. Is Sienna Miller one of them?

In Neil Gaiman’s delightfully sinister little novella Coraline, a young girl discovers a secret passageway in her house.

Until you’ve seen The Singing Forest, you can’t believe anyone would be nuts enough to write an epic farce about the lingering scars of the Holocaust.