Anyone familiar with English literature—college English majors certainly—has already recognized the above quote. It begins the first chapter of Charles Dickens’ David Copperfield, the chapter itself ...

King of the Yees, the newest work from Signature resident playwright Lauren Yee, begins with a play within a play: meeting the characters, playwright Lauren (Maureen Sebastian) and father Larry (David ...

Any attempt to explain in too much detail the hazy, crazy storyline of King of the Yees likely will result in confusion. Suffice to report Lauren Yee’s “only kind of true” autobiographical comedy ...

If you’re going to a Jon Robin Baitz play, prepare to go into battle (so to speak). From The Substance of Fire and A Fair Country to the current revival of Other Desert Cities at the Hudson Theatre, ...

Joining them for the holidays are Polly’s sharp-tongued, alcoholic sister Silda (Janney), fresh out of rehab; apolitical son Trip (Keery, who made a splash on Netflix’s Stranger Things ), the creator ...

With Memoirs of Amorous Gentlemen, director Ashford once again knows what he’s doing. In his clever hands, he keeps the action cracking along. Colette struggles effortfully to earn Sakae’s money so’s ...

★★★☆☆ Anne Washburn's new play concerns a gay couple and the QAnon-addled woman living across the street. Crystal Finn in Anon. Photo credit: Monique Carboni It’s always heartening when a playwright ...

As the session goes on, the events of the story being told and the scary goings-on in the studio, the latter of which may or may not be in the narrator’s mind, begin to blur together. By the end of ...

Don those headphones. A chilly voiceover checks the aural balance. The show begins.

In response, Will goes out and buys a gun which he admits he doesn’t have any idea how to use. It’s one of several foreboding scenes played with welcome humor by Shamos and Biehl. The two excellent ...

Haddad’s latest, Good Time Charlie, which he performs with a six-actor company, premiered Friday at the Public Theater. Like his previous works, Good Time Charlie regards Haddad’s Ohio family as well ...