Theresa Rebeck decants two marriages on the rocks, but fails to get us to care about either couple.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMTwo young women, of different races but similarly scarred, take on a cold world.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThis is a kinder, gentler and far funnier Neil LaBute.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMIn this spirited battle of the sexes, the women come out on top.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMA sturdy thread of storytelling underlies a circus of hilarious shenanigans.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMThis dance-infused fantasy, as reimagined, delves deeper than the original.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 05:58PMHot playwright Bruce Norris examines the fallout when a man wants it all, and then some.
SOURCE: Theater News Online at 11:13AMBrenda Withers could have gone the glam route, like her Matt
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:51PMEven if you think you know everything about world-famous sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, playwright Mark St. Germain (Freud's Last Session) has put it all together in one very appealing p…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 04:08PMThe comfort level afforded by a well-endowed arts institution is not always propitious. Case in point: Boston's prestigious Huntington Theatre Company extended an invitation to local playwri…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:49PMThere's a mathematical elegance to the plot of Jane Austen's debut novel, Sense
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:00AMWhat gets actors to high-profile stage roles? Talent, persistence and a bit of luck.
SOURCE: The New York Times Subscription at 06:00PMThere's something oddly muted about director John Tiffany's rendition of The Glass Menagerie, which represents the American Repertory Theater's first foray into Tennessee Williams territory.…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 11:40PMThis is not your high school's Pippin. Not unless your drama teacher had the budget to hire world class Canadian acrobats as players, or the clout to bring in show composer Stephen Schwartz …
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 08:54PMFor her latest play, Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again, now premiering at Yale Repertory Theatre, Sarah Ruhl essentially seems to have t…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:31PMKathleen Turner deserves a measure of thanks for dusting off Frank Marcus's provocative and sporadically hilarious 1964 dramedy The Killing of Sister George, about a much-beloved BBC radio s…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 01:59PMJeffery Roberson – bravely shedding his longtime nom de théâtre, Varla Jean Merman -- plays it straight, if cross-dressed, as the title character of Gian Carlo Menotti's powerful one-ho…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00AMKara Lee Corthron's AliceGraceAnon now at the vast Irondale Center, is an appropriately sprawling piece of theater: part rock musical and part feminist mash-up. And even if it's only interm…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:03AMThe Other Josh Cohen at Soho Playhouse could be described as a seriocomic thirty-something tale of romantic woe. Yet, thanks to the cleverness of co-authors David Rossmer and Steve Rosen and…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 06:00PMOn the face of it, John Douglas Thompson might not be anyone's first choice to portray Louis Armstrong, especially in the twilight of his career. But the supremely talented actor proves to b…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 09:00PMThe light and clever hand of adapter/director Julie Kramer guides the new stage version of Rona Jaffe's scandalous 1958 novel The Best of Everything, now at HERE.This fairly faithful redact…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMIn Marie Antoinette, now at American Repertory Theater, David Adjmi dispenses with the obvious jests right off the bat. "O let them eat cake," protests Marie (the spectacular Brooke Bloom),…
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:20PMThe Cape Playhouse offers a mostly outstanding production of Cole Porter's beloved musical.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 10:00PMThe Williamstown Theatre Festival presents a tepid version of Ivan Turgenev's novel about an unhappy Russian woman.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 05:00PMThis dazzling arena show based on the Dreamworks animated film is aptly named.
SOURCE: TheaterMania at 03:30PMThis musical based on the silly 1979 film fails to capture the fun of the era.
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