Tuesday, January 13, 2015
NEW YORK (AP) -- Boy meets girl - again and again, with different outcomes each time. Constellations may be fixed in our universe, but beneath them, the human race just might be living i…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 10:07PMMonday, December 15, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) -- The loss of individuality in small-town America takes a beating in "Pocatello," a new play by Samuel D. Hunter, whose dark comedy "The Whale" was well-received off-Broad…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:40PMSunday, December 14, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) -- The thing about one-person shows is, you usually have to like the actor as well as the character they're portraying....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:36PMNEW YORK (AP) -- You don't have to be Jewish to love Shlomo - but it helps....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:35PMMonday, November 17, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) -- After the favorably reviewed musical "Side Show" closed its original three-month Broadway run in 1997, swallowing a $7 million loss for its producers, it still garnered …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 11:30PMSunday, October 5, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) -- A boy reaches out to pet a neighbor's dog. It sounds so cozy, except the dog onstage that begins the Broadway production of the National Theatre's "The Curious Incident …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:21PMMonday, September 22, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) -- That old saying about the meek inheriting the Earth doesn't remotely apply to the cutthroat world of Hollywood filmmaking, where an obsession with youth, beauty and shoc…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:46PMMonday, August 11, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) -- Deception, jealousy, sadistic insults and a lot of spit - it's all in a day's work for the downtrodden, sisterly duo of servants in French playwright Jean Genet's 1947 d…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 03:23PMTuesday, June 17, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) -- Thorny disputes can erupt when traditional religious beliefs are publicly questioned. Ayad Akhtar, winner of the 2013 Pulitzer Prize for drama for "Disgraced," has writt…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:16AMMonday, April 21, 2014
NEW YORK (AP) -- Not many old people who fear being shipped off to a nursing home fight back with a home arsenal and bomb threats....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:15PMSunday, June 2, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- Richard Greenberg's new musical, "Far From Heaven" is actually pretty close to heavenly. Tightly staged by Michael Greif at Playwrights Horizons, it's smart, sophisticat…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:33PMSunday, April 14, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- Adopting a baby is a daunting endeavor, made even more difficult when other countries and cultures are involved, according to Tanya Barfield in her topical new play, "Th…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:00PMThursday, March 21, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- Going on a public bender doesn't generally end well for single ladies, even in a friendly local watering hole, but Anita Loos wrote a light-hearted comedy on the subject…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 07:58PMWednesday, March 13, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- Sometimes it's better to leave your first childhood crush in the past, or you may spoil lovely memories....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:32PMTuesday, March 12, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- If you're getting repeatedly passed over for promotion in a tedious job by younger co-workers, you'll find a lot to relate to in Annie Baker's latest play, "The Flick.".…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:09PMWednesday, March 6, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- Even with the best of intentions, sometimes offering advice to help a friend can backfire. Badly....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 04:58PMTuesday, March 5, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- Women's Project Theater has had a crackling start to their 35th season, celebrating their new home at New York City Center with the well-received, disturbing "Bethany," …
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:45PMNEW YORK (AP) -- When a man goes courting, it generally doesn't involve shouting and flailing around in ice skates on rotten floorboards in the middle of summer. Yet the 1944 wooing of s…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 09:43PMTuesday, February 19, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- William Shakespeare's comedy "Much Ado About Nothing" benefits from a lighthearted approach and an evenly-matched pair of verbal jousters to conduct a battle of the sexe…
SOURCE: Associated Press at 05:11PMSunday, January 13, 2013
NEW YORK (AP) -- When hoping for a dramatic change in your life, be careful what you wish for....
SOURCE: Associated Press at 08:32PMMonday, December 10, 2012
Considering the ongoing global financial crisis, it's clear that classic theater can remain eerily relevant even after 400 years.
SOURCE: bigstory.ap.org at 06:46PMWednesday, October 24, 2012
NEW YORK—Once you get past the challenging beginning of the Transport Group's otherwise enjoyable new work based on Jonathan Franzen's quirky essay, "House For Sale," you can settle in…
SOURCE: Denver Post at 09:13PMFriday, July 13, 2012
Pre-history would sound very different if dinosaurs could tell their own stories. Especially if they were raucously singing and dancing while dealing with identity crises and gender morphing…
SOURCE: www.poughkeepsiejournal.com at 12:46PMThursday, June 28, 2012
Pre-history would sound very different if dinosaurs could tell their own stories. Especially if they were raucously singing and dancing while dealing with identity crises and gender morphing…
SOURCE: ABC News at 11:08AMMonday, June 25, 2012
The sweetest space cadet you’ll ever meet is Miriam, the spunky heroine of a warm-hearted new play, “7th Monarch.” The intriguing drama by Jim Henry, detailing several mysteries surrou…
SOURCE: Washington Post at 05:38PMTuesday, April 3, 2012
The battle of the sexes is waged anew as "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare enjoys a fresh, robust off-Broadway presentation by Theatre for a New Audience at The Duke on 42nd S…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:39PMWednesday, March 28, 2012
There was an unhappy time in America when ratting out your friends for entertaining socialist ideas was considered by some in the government to be patriotic.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 07:04AMFriday, March 23, 2012
A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to win her man. Esteemed American playwright Eugene O'Neill, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature, created a fierce lite…
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 04:44PMWednesday, February 8, 2012
"I'm gonna need therapy to get over this therapy," one character remarks in exasperation to another, near the end of Frank Strausser's uneven new comedy "Psycho Therapy."
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 06:04PMMonday, December 12, 2011
Gerard Mannix Flynn's blazing indictment of the nationwide, decades-long abuse of institutionalized schoolchildren in Ireland, titled "James X," is remarkable and should not be missed.
SOURCE: Boston Globe at 02:49PMMonday, December 5, 2011
If your idea of Christmas holiday fun includes a caustic comedy with a warm, mushy heart, then the Peccadillo Theater Company's amusing revival of a popular, acerbic play from the 1930s will…
SOURCE: ABC News at 01:57PM 
