Tom Stoppard, the 75-year-old British playwright responsible for 1966’s “Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead,” 1993’s “Arcadia” and numerous screenplays, has fou...

Since its start as an improv comedy troupe in the ’90s, the Upright Citizens Brigade has grown into an institution with theaters on both coasts and a comedy school renowned ...

Float like a butterfly. Sting like a bee. Sing like a bird? Well, a very deep-voiced bird. In the new opera “Approaching Ali,” boxing legend Muhammad Ali appears as an agi...

In the 1920s, the first couple of the American stage — Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fontanne — starred in the hit play “The Guardsman,” a light comedy by Ferenc Molnar, transl...

The new play at Woolly Mammoth, “Stupid [Expletive] Bird,” won’t start until you tell it to. An actor reveals a card instructing the audience to say “start the [explet...

Drag queen Shi-Queeta-Lee (Jerry Van Hook) has been working it in Washington for 15 years: She performs Friday and Saturday nights at Town Danceboutique, and hosts the wildly ...

Don’t be embarrassed if you’re a lot older than most of the audience of “The Intergalactic Nemesis.” Even though it’s labeled “for young audiences,” the show was...

Telling a story in verse is difficult, especially when the story’s as funny, rambling and conceptually complex as Voltaire’s “Candide,” the French satirical novel publ...

In “The Amazing Acro-Cats,” trained kitties roll barrels, skateboard, jump through hoops and do other distinctly un-feline things. They also take their time doing tricks a...

Actors don’t have to like their characters, but they do have to understand them. When it came to his role as a self-centered adulterer in “The Last Five Years,” now at S...

Oh, of course your kid enjoys a night at the symphony, probably preceded by a tasting menu that is emphatically chicken-nugget-free. Getting most kids exposed to music and the...

In a Mike Daisey performance, the monologuist sits at a table with a script in front of him and talks about his life for two hours. So when people find out the man behind “T...

Picture this: The former first lady’s dressmaker and best friend pens a tell-all book about her years in the White House. She reveals intimate details about a revered presid...

A woman wades into the man-made pool. The water reaches her shins. You can see the bottom, you can see her feet — and then she disappears, dropping away beneath the surface,...

Your trashman knows all of your secrets. But don’t worry, writer/actor/trashman Ron Litman won’t spill what he’s learned from your tossed yogurt cups and discarded love ...