The setting of “West Side Story” is San Juan Hill, the nickname of the Lincoln Square area of Upper West Side of Manhattan—an area bulldozed and redeveloped into the Lincoln Center performing arts complex in the early 1960s.

The show's extreme makeover casts something of a spell but it comes off more and more like a self-serious period piece with some kicking tunes.

Since 1975, a touring production of “The Trojan Women” staged by New York’s La MaMa Experimental Theater Club has played in more than 30 countries.

Ken Jennings’s “The Gospel of John” is now onstage at New York City’s Sheen Center through Dec. 29.

The author of the play “Halfway Bitches Go Straight to Heaven” says prayer may be his most valuable writing hack.

Theater critic Jose Solís surveys several productions of the holiday classic