Audacious risktaking in the theater comes in many colors, most of them loud. You can defy a censor, transgress a casting convention,...

Like Beckett and Pinter, Caryl Churchill is writing fugues in old age (she’s 77). Far Away, A Number, and now Escaped Alone: these are...

Is it a good or bad thing for a dyed-in-the-wool dystopian like Wallace Shawn when real life suddenly serves up very convincing...