Is the 13th step to create a drama about the founders of Alcoholics Anonymous? Perhaps not, but Stephen Bergman and Janet Surrey have received plaudits for this show about a night in 1935 when a stockbroker and a businessman helped talk each other out of taking a drink. Seth Gordon directs a... More >>

If our current way of life were to be suddenly wiped out, what traditions from the past would survivors hold on to? Playwright Anne Washburn explores this scenario in Mr. Burns, A Post-Electric Play, which imagines that, of all things, Bart Simpson would become a vital part of the new... More >>

Though I was born too late to enjoy an '80s prom myself, I may once have actively requested Bon Jovi's "You Give Love a Bad Name" at a junior high semiformal. Conversely, this interactive show aims to give nostalgia musicals a good name when it invites audiences to drink, dance, and vote for... More >>

Any experienced psychiatrist will expect to encounter a range of patients, some straightforward, some difficult. It seems safe to assume that Zimbabwean leader Robert Mugabe belongs in the latter category and Fraser Grace’s play imagines the autocrat’s interactions with an analyst... More >>

Running in repertory with Breakfast with Mugabe, Otho Eskin’s play at Pershing Square also centers on a psychoanalyst—in this case Sigmund Freud and his prewar Viennese milieu. In this coffeehouse-set play, he’s joined by Gustav and Alma Mahler. Josef Stalin and a proto-Nazi,... More >>

In May 1965, the young heavyweight champ Cassius Clay was nearing one of his most anticipated fights when he invited the washed-up actor Stepin Fetchit into his entourage. But why? Will Power’s new drama, Fetch Clay, Make Man, concerns how this unlikely pair became friends despite their... More >>