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 ...

Chloé Zhao’s fifth film, “Hamnet,” harnesses a raw, sentimental spectacle that grapples resilience, acceptance and change. With sublime performances and cinematography, “Hamnet” is one of the decade’s ...

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 ...

Swedish poet, novelist, and dramatist Par Lagerkvist arrived at just the right moment to despise naturalism. He was born in 1891, 14 years after Ibsen’s seminal naturalistic drama Pillars of Society ...

In The Grown-Ups, set at a summer camp and now running on a patch of grass next to Shakespeare Dallas’ amphitheater at Samuell-Grand Park in a production by Kitchen Dog Theater, playwrights Simon ...

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 ...

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 ...

Alicia Like (left), Eric J. Conners and Laurie McConnell star in the new production at the Black Rep, "Miss Julie, Clarissa and John." Photo by Phillip Hamer. In 1888, Swedish playwright August ...