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The play, set in 1914, is staged as if in a London air-raid shelter in 1940. It’s an ungainly frame for this crisp comedy.

With its focus on exiles finding protection and outcasts earning redemption, this revival of the 1983 production feels more timely than ever.

Masha Gessen has organized six panels on the theme of reimagining democracy that cover topics like “A Post-Work World.”

See Donald Glover as his musical alter ego before he makes good on his promise of retiring it; and watch Eddie Izzard as he workshops new material.

A theater festival presented works he directed, stage adaptations of his films, and creations he influenced. Even a “Seventh Seal” for kids.

In “Babylon,” the prizewinning French playwright and author explores the dark undercurrents of domesticity and marriage.

In the most promising plays opening this fall, the family drama opens its living room to an invasion of political anxieties.

A solo show about a World War I soldier counting down the hours to his execution for cowardice.

Previews, openings and some last-chance picks.

The “Beetlejuice” musical is adapted from Tim Burton’s 1988 comedy about the living and the dead vying for control of a haunted house.