Human Things takes place on a lonely atoll in the South Pacific, where Margaret, played with fine conviction by Rebecca Robles, is a young ecologist studying the nesting of migratory…

A morbidly fascinating inquiry into performative justice, moral superiority and public shaming as crude fuel for reality television, Primetime is a superficially fictionalized account of Dateline NBC’s controversial To Catch…

The Body of Mary, a trilogy of sketches, is subtitled "a play in three acts (of God)," which should let you know what you're in for. Playwright Katie Cappiello takes…

Roger Guenveur Smith has made something of a specialty of performing solo shows based on the lives of real people, including Huey P. Newton, Rodney King, Frederick Douglass, and even…

Possibly not since Puppetry of the Penis has an Off Broadway show aroused such naked laughter. Like that offbeat endeavor of a quarter century ago, Garry Starr: Classic Penguins hails from Australia. Damien Warren-Smith,…

There are a lot of reasonable reactions to the discovery that life continues on after death, and that it’s mad at you: gasping, screaming, resolving to get in touch with…

“The Winter’s Tale” is a fine choice for Shakespeare in the Park, though summer is the only season that the play doesn’t represent. It begins in winter, then resumes in…

Has anyone had as strange or circuitous a career as David Robert Mitchell? The American filmmaker started out with 2010’s hazy teen drama The Myth Of The American Sleepover, broke out…

The opening credits of “Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma” tell a story: A 1980s teen slasher film called “Camp Miasma” became a runaway hit, spawning numerous sequels —…

“One Night Only,” director-producer Will Gluck‘s latest romantic comedy, is everything that’s troubling about the current conservative capitalist hellscape that is the United States of America writ large. Set three years…