First of all, don’t be put off by the pompous, academic title. Thomas Ostermeier’s extraordinary History of Violence, adapted from a...

Plays set in recording studios, in my experience, are usually stories of entrapment. The spaces themselves—the soundproof walls and...

Richard Crookback is Shakespeare’s dazzling carnival monster, a showoff criminal who charms us into reveling in his villainy. It’s a...