“The New Electric Ballroom” affirms Enda Walsh’s growing reputation as a contender to take his place in the long, distinguished line of great Irish playwrights.

Haley Joel Osment will be making his Broadway debut in David Mamet’s “American Buffalo.”

Taking Questions: Benjamin Chesluk will answer City Room readers' questions about the development of Times Square and its implications for other cities around the world.

The Mark Taper Forum will reopen with a revival of John Guare’s “House of Blue Leaves” after a yearlong, $30 million renovation.

Lincoln Center Theater will present Horton Foote’s “Dividing the Estate” this fall at the Booth Theater.

Gorilla Rep’s production was presented on a gently sloping stretch of grass in Fort Tryon Park, and the ingenuity of its staging was impressive.

Nature takes its course in high style in the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival’s inspiriting production of “Cymbeline.”

Second Stage Theater has found the three main dudes for its production of “Boys’ Life.”

The New York-bound production of “Vanities — A New Musical” announced Feb. 2 as the date of its first preview.

Significant shows at the Edinburgh International Festival and the Festival Fringe considered the anxieties and preoccupations of contemporary youth.

Hanging out with Hunter Parrish, the newest cast member of “Spring Awakening” on Broadway.

To ensure that no theater reference goes unappreciated in their musical, the creators and two of the co-stars of “[title of show]” created a cheat sheet.

A professional line-sitter got the boot at the Delacorte Theatre.

THEATER.

The Signature Theater Company offers a smooth revival of “The First Breeze of Summer,” Leslie Lee’s less-than-smooth drama of a denial-plagued family in close quarters.

Thursday’s announcement that Frank Gehry will no longer be a part of the project to rebuild the Theater for a New Audience came as a surprise to the architect.

The melodrama is high, and so is the cliché count in “Noon Day Sun,” an exploration of racial identity and related themes that is as seductive as a soap opera.

“Hattie ... What I Need You to Know” attempts to tackle what it meant that the first African-American to win an Academy Award did so playing a loyal slave.

Nicky Silver, a bit less angry, is back with a new play, “Three Changes.”

Reviews of New York International Fringe Festival plays, including “The Alice Complex” and “Zombie.”