David Harewood plays Martin Luther King in a haunting and inspiring portrait that looks beyond the legend to a man wracked by fears for the civil rights movement that becomes his historic legacy. This inheritance has ultimately led to the election of President Obama.

PL115's new production of Caucasian Chalk Circle re-imagines Brecht's master work as a distinctly American fable. Set in a half-finished building taken over by squatters, and using modernized "disaster ballad" folk songs to drive the story.

Isabel just wants ninety minutes. Soon William, her ex, will be married again, so ninety is all she has to make her case. Ninety to remember what they had. Ninety to regain what was lost. Just ninety to rediscover love or call it a day, forever.

Monstrosity is an epic of singing teenage fascists, magic, war, commerce, and a love story — a retelling of the Hero’s tale with a girl as the hero and a modern ending. Monstrosity opens July 9, 2009 at the Cornelia Connelly Center. Directed by Lear de Bessonet.

A dinner party from hell is the focus of this wicked satirical comedy, where caustic comments fly like poisonous darts across the dinner table. The playwright reminds us that "revenge is a dish best served cold", but at this dinner party it is served frozen. By Moira Buffini, directed by David Esbjornson and starring Mercedes Ruehl.

Siti Company & Columbia University School of the Arts present the New York Premiere of RADIO MACBETH

Business Tip #17: When negotiating a severance package, it always helps to take a hostage.

It starts with the discovery of an ancient Japanese pillow book worth millions on the open market, a rare manuscript detailing the life and loves of a royal courtesan. Its existence could shake the field of Asian antiquities to its core. That is, of course, if it’s real.