Theatrical Plays

Nikolai and the Others: Russian Hour

Richard Nelson's Cold War dish, served chilled

Nora Ephron's Lucky Guy Digests Its Drama for You; NAATCO's Strindberg Diminishes a Dream

Dramatic reductions

Spring Arts Guide Picks: Theater

The Flick and Talley's Folly Meet New People

Two plays make introductions

The Vandal

Hearts Like Fists

Ethan Hawke Tackles Ivanov, Christopher Durang Tries a Comic Remix With Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

Welcome to Chekhov Town

GET HAPPY

Two reasons to visit the public

Pinocchio's Ashes

Christopher Marlowe's Chloroform Dreams

THE NAME GAME

A misleading alias stirs up trouble in The Submission

Revisiting a Queer Cultural Landmark in Making the Boys

Ethan Lipton & His Orchestra

Summer Guide: Directors Ivo Van Hove and Peter Stein Anchor at Governors Island

The Lincoln Center Festival brings high art to the harbor

Strindberg's Painfully Modern Creditors at BAM

Alan Rickman helms a blast of Swedish vitriol

SECOND CHANCES

Target Margin aims to turn a failure into a success

Annie Baker's Circle Mirror Transformation

Finding the drama in drama class

BUZZWORTHY

Sarah Ruhl looks behind closed doors

FENCED IN

Is Israel's Security Fence the new Berlin Wall?

Interview: Playwright Craig Lucas, the Man Who Would Have Written Peter Pan

Toxic Jeremy Piven Departs Mamet's Speed-the-Plow

GODDESS OF POLITICS

Athena, Aphrodite, and a girl named Hillary

HOOD LIFE

Classical Theatre of Harlem moves its hit show outdoors

PRETTY UGLY

LaBute makes us cringe again

CALL WAITING

Mary-Louise Parker finds intrigue on the other end of the line

Kiss Me, Fate

From one cigarette, eight different Ayckbourn plays

Obies, She Wrote

The Story of O

Probing for truth in this four-character drama

Love, Death, Confusion

McNally's 'Dedication' shows that even the cleverest playwrights babble when they're in love

Festival Madness: Is More Necessarily Merrier for Audiences?

Trash and Vaudeville

A Guide to the New York International Fringe Festival's Recycling Program

Romper Room

Recalling the glory (and gory) days of theatrical liberation

Public Approval

Oskar Eustis takes the reins from George C. Wolfe

Faust Things First

Bilingual, time-jumping, and polycultural, John Jesurun scrambles Goethe's mythic egghead

Don Juan's New Director of Playa Personnel

Bartlett Sher Helms Molière for TFANA

Untruths To Tell

Facing Reality, or Not, in Stand-Up and Hip-Hop

Theater

London Fields

New Dramas Make Connections—No Music Required

The Corpses of Romance

Disorientalism

Fire Power

The Story About the Director

Albee! Miller! David Esbjornson Helms Them All.

Home Suite Home

Nineteen Theater Companies Win the Space Race

Welcome to the Club Kids

Playwright Jessica Goldberg's Variations

Theater

A Bumpy Ride from Stage to Screen

New Turf

Silence of the Lambs

A 17-Year-Old Lesbian Brings Her Censored Play to New York

North of Tennessee

Classic Act

Barry Edelstein Takes Over CSC