August Strindberg’s “Miss Julie,” a classic of early Naturalistic theater written in 1888, is set in the kitchen of a count’s mansion on a wild Feast Day in Sweden. “Queen of Basel” by young New ...

Are all plays reviewable? On the face of it, you’d say, yes of course. But there’s a genre of theatrical writing that I would call brilliantly self-protected. Typically, such plays are about the ...

Naturalism will be in short supply at this summer's 16th Contemporary American Theater Festival. Stories unfurl in time-wrinkling, mind-bending ways in three of the four plays in repertory Friday ...

The catchline for the staging is that a real-life mother and son play the sex-mad mother and drug-addicted son of the drama, the subtle and gamine Lia Williams and the well-regarded Joshua James, but ...