Midway through Bottoms, Josie (Ayo Edebiri) and PJ (Rachel Sennott) reluctantly come around to the fact that the half-baked high-school fight club — sorry, women’s self-defense class — they started…

Over a career spanning some 25 years, Laura Lippman has done for Baltimore what Walter Mosley did for Los Angeles — used crime fiction to explore the complicated heart of…

Some of the hoarier conventions of the horror movie are given a thorough skewering (literally: crossbow bolts figure heavily in the action) in this acute and very funny satire. A…

The comedy “You Are So Not Invited to My Bat Mitzvah” follows the debut of Stacy Friedman (Sunny Sandler), a preteen who is obsessed with the parties that accompany her…

In “Every Body,” an activist named Alicia Roth Weigel sits on her couch, swiping through profiles on a dating app and explaining to the camera — and a public who’ve…

For nearly sixty years, playwright Terrence McNally has been a force in American theater. His work, encompassing plays, musicals, teleplays, and opera, has been performed around the world. McNally is…

What exactly is novelist Tawni O’Dell’s Pay the Writer about? (Spoiler alert: it’s definitely not the title, a throwaway line that come late in the play.) Ostensibly, it is about…

There's a moment during the opening song of Back to the Future: The Musical's second act, when Roger Bart's Doc Brown finds himself dancing alongside a flurry of hoofers dressed…

In The Shark Is Broken, it’s summer, 1974 off the coast of Martha’s Vineyard and Roy Scheider (Colin Donnell), Richard Dreyfuss (Alex Brightman) and Robert Shaw (Ian Shaw) kill time…

“Passages” is the story of Tomas (Franz Rogowski), a film director whose enthusiasm for life and fun is tempered by his husband, the quiet Martin (Ben Whishaw). When Tomas finds…