NEW YORK — A good chunk of the audience at The Shed clearly didn’t recognize Tom Hanks when he first walked out on stage in “This World of Tomorrow,” even though Tom Hanks was who people had come to ...

For a playwright who specializes in adapting extant texts for the stage, there's no higher praise than when a living author calls to say, "Nice work." And when the bearer of compliments happens to be ...

Oscar winner Tom Hanks is in New York for the fall, starring in This World of Tomorrow at The Shed, a new play he co-wrote based on two of his published short stories. During a recent visit to Late ...

The play’s futuristic framework notwithstanding, and despite the distinct “Groundhog Day” element to its conceit, connoisseurs of Nora Ephron’s movie “You’ve Got Mail” will detect several echoes of ...