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

James Sheldon’s Reparations is a new play about racial grievance, guilt and retribution in America that, oddly enough, is both very smart...

Adam Rapp is a polarizing playwright. After bursting onto the scene in 2001 with Nocturne—a long, moving monologue by a man who...