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The best commissions from Vital Theatre Company’s New Works Festival, which called for plays set on the Upper West Side.

Five theatergoers rate their experience.

Rent the movie instead. Plus: Skip Les Mis, Part Deux, in favor of an acting tour de force.

How a perky British nanny became a Broadway superstar.

Sarah Ruhl’s The Clean House feels like it’s been thoroughly scrubbed of human ambiguity. And the jokes would really work better in English.

Universes, the hip Bronx-based ensemble that pioneered the hip-hop theater movement, showcases its best work in a tenth-anniversary celebration.

Grey Gardens isn't the revolutionary musical for today, but you won’t see the likes of its star anywhere else.

Q&A with the 'The Little Dog Laughed' actress.

There are still secrets left to tell about Little Edie Beale, including her diary.

Just how enormous an undertaking is Tom Stoppard’s epic three-evening play about nineteenth-century Russian intellectuals? As the first third opens this weekend, a selective breakdown.