When the two lead actresses in Shawn’s play called in sick, their understudies scrambled to prep in the dressing room. The ...

Shawn and his partner stepped into his play, 'What We Did Before Our Moth Days,' subbing in for actors who were ill.

Wallace Shawn and Deborah Eisenberg stepped in with three hours' notice for Hope Davis and Maria Dizzia, who are out due to ...

He’s been a performer nearly half a century and can probably live comfortably off “The Princess Bride” residuals for the rest of his life, but that film overshadows his work as a lauded playwright and ...

There’s a flip side to the “New York, New York” lyrics “if I can make it there, I can make it anywhere!” What about all those people who can only make it in New York City? Two prime candidates for ...

He says his new play both is and isn’t a rebuke of Donald Trump.

To some members of the younger generation, Wallace Shawn is just “the actor who plays Dr. Sturgis on Young Sheldon.” To anyone whose first cellphone had an antenna, that assessment of Shawn’s career ...

A funny kind of energy ripples through a crowd as Wallace Shawn saunters through, as he did on March 9 at Greenwich House Theater. It wasn’t an immersive show, but Shawn, dressed in T-shirt and jeans, ...

Bring in someone who knows the play — Wallace Shawn, who wrote it.

A new play off-Broadway poses an unsettling question - when we die, how do we account for our lives? A father, mother, son and a mistress tell their stories about decades of love, joy lies, betrayal, ...