Three vintage American plays. And three fascinating and provocative examples of racially unconventional casting.

Where the curtain goes up on eye-opening work.

The emphasis is on the female leads in this revival of the Rodgers and Hart classic. Never mind that neither has sung onstage in 25 years.

It took Danny Hoch only four days to write most of Taking Over, maybe because the subject is so close to his spleen.

Where to take your out-of-towners this holiday season, in one act.

The Tony Award–winning star of Spring Awakening, spoke to Boris Kachka about trading rock for evil.

How do you top Kevin Spacey and Jeff Goldblum, whose vicious performances in Speed-the-Plow raised the bar as high as it can go?

The rehearsal had already dragged on for hours, the air conditioning had long since died, and the stars, Elizabeth Taylor and Richard Burton, were beginning to get a bit whiny.

Mandy Patinkin’s circuitous, hairy ride back to Shakespeare.

Choreographer Bill T. Jones brings the life of Fela Kuti to Off Broadway, this time as director.