Helen Shaw is a Theater Writer at The New Yorker. She specializes in arts and entertainment, focusing on theater, cultural movements, and pop culture, often covering topics such as plays and musicals, celebrities, and entertainment news. Her work has been featured in prominent publications including Vulture, Time Out Group plc, and The Irish Times.
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Helen Shaw's coverage heavily focuses on theater, particularly Broadway and Off-Broadway productions. She emphasizes expert commentary and event coverage, indicating a preference for insightful analysis of ongoing or upcoming theatrical events.
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Jean Genet’s psychosexual drama gets a social-media-heavy update. But what does it say beyond “internet=bad”?
By: Helen Shaw
While the 1999 movie went for melodrama, this stage adaptation with songs by Aimee Mann honors the memoir’s coolly clinical prose.
John J. Caswell’s triangular romance set in the early 1990s speaks to us from the smoking psychic caldera left by AIDS.
Morgan Bassichis, whose solo show “Can I Be Frank?” resurrects an act by Frank Maya, joins others this season who are recreating the works of deceased artists.
For the Public Theater’s Shakespeare in the Park, the director Saheem Ali presents a strangely low-energy version of the tragedy.
A co-founder of Pig Iron Theater Company, known for its surreal productions, he also gave energetic performances as his alter ego, Martha Graham Cracker.
By: Helen Shaw
César Alvarez’s ambitious new work is a mixed musical meal: It wants to be a call to revolutionary action but is surprisingly lacking in it.
By: Elisabeth Vincentelli, Helen Shaw
As the summer heats up, here’s seven not-to-miss Off Broadway shows.
A new production at Barrington Stage Company reminds us of how the “singular sensation” changed our relationship to performance.
Bubba Weiler’s new play about two altar boys at a crossroads includes several beautiful performances, even when the line between sweetness and treacle blurs.
