Helen Shaw

Without the usual flood of new musicals, the playwrights of works like “Becky Shaw,” “Dog Day Afternoon” and “Giant” are getting a chance to shine.

Libby Howes was an imposing presence onstage with the Wooster Group. But after abruptly leaving New York in 1981 she became a theater world mystery. What happened?

It’s been the year of Molière, and therefore the year of the liar, the hypocrite, the poseur, the clown.

Helen Shaw reviews “Marjorie Prime,” with June Squibb, Cynthia Nixon, and Danny Burstein,

It was a banner year for generation-defining performance, both up- and downtown.

The playwright offered a kind of on-ramp to the literary canon, a way into a life of unabashed, unstoppable thinking.

“Coyote,” a new biography by Robert M. Dowling, recounts how the cowboy laureate of American theatre invented himself.