Helen Epstein
The Barrington Stage Company’s moving and fiercely energetic production brings West Side Story back to the stage with a bang.
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Educated is a testament to the power of sensitive friends and mentors — and to Tara Westover’s own resilience.
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On the Couch is an extraordinary coffee table book for anyone interested in “recumbency” and how the couch became the icon of psychoanalysis.
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August Strindberg’s Creditors turns out to be a play that speaks chillingly to our time.
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Atung and Moy have a lot to say about American history and culture — acutely informed by the playwright’s 21st century sensibility and identity politics.
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The action is set in an incongruous and ahistorical no-man’s land, adrift between realistic drama and farce.
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Who knew that there were dozens of first-rate female American, Scandinavian, German, Swiss, French and Russian painters in Paris in the second half of the 19th century?
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The Closet is funny, brash, entertaining, and utterly forgettable.
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The Cake is a smart, stinging, and eerily timely comedy that feels timeless.
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Father’s Day Feature: My Father the Former Communist
Having a father in prison meant radical changes in our everyday lives.
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