American plays and musicals have been in starring roles this season in London.

The Live Arts Festival in Philadelphia offers a play drawing parallels between 1865 and 2015, and another work that brings cardboard characters to life.

In Christina Masciotti’s “Vision Disturbance,” a Greek-born woman experiences a strange eye disorder while going through a divorce.

Flea Theater buys a building and plans to renovate it into a permanent downtown home.

Richard O'Brien, the author and composer of the cross-dressing cult classic, will soon be permitted to retire to that nation's moon-drenched shores and sing and dance the Time Warp there once more.

A New York dominatrix taught Domination 101 to Sutton Foster and others in Second Stage’s “Trust” so they could portray S&M accurately.

Just as the miners portrayed in “The Pitmen Painters” never stray from their roots, the actors are themselves an unusual example of loyalty and collaboration.

A site-specific production of Ibsen’s “Hedda Gabler” is performed for an audience of two dozen in an East Village town house.

With top-tier actors and affordable tickets, the city’s theater scene is rich and intimate.

Mr. Lally’s troupe has received international acclaim for its productions of works by Irish playwrights, especially J. M. Synge and Martin McDonagh.

At the Gateway Playhouse, a sweet, naughty, hilarious, absolutely first-rate production of “Avenue Q.”

The much-praised London theater company Donmar Warehouse, despite the success of its “Red” on Broadway, does not plan to transfer plays willy-nilly to New York.

Mr. Hitchcock, a playwright and poet himself, included a wide variety of poets and writers in his literary magazine.

In “Mrs. Warren’s Profession” on Broadway, Cherry Jones gets to play yet another strong-willed woman.

Mr. Fraser and Denis O'Hare are set to play a mismatched pair of roommates navigating the shoals of friendship, work, and women

The musical, about two World War II G.I.'s whose friendship turns into romance, has been delayed until the fall of 2011.

Selective listings by theater critics of The New York Times of noteworthy shows in New York.

For beginning hoofers or advanced, Broadway dance routines can be an alternative to the gym.

In “It Must Be Him,” a comedy by Kenny Solms, Peter Scolari plays a television writer who’s trying to revive his career.

Producer Elizabeth I. McCann, who had announced she would mount the show in November, said on Thursday that she is now aiming for a spring opening.