High-school agonies, Wilde and Chekhov and Caryl Churchill, and an encounter group that left our critics enthralled.

Big names took over Broadway this year, but did any of their shows make our best of the year list?

NEW YORK — The great playwright August Wilson used to say he’d just let his characters talk and then try and get out of their way. Bess Wohl’s fascinating and superbly acted Broadway play “Liberation, ...

Prohibitive costs and an uncertain market have made filmed versions of Broadway shows a rarity in movie theaters. But new ...