The last time we saw Judith Ivey on the Long Wharf stage, about a year and a half ago, she was playing one of the great Southern matriarchs, the quintessential Tennessee Williams monster-mot…
“The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee,” which won several Tonys 2005, is at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn.
“Puma,” having its premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, takes a melodramatic look at the four-decade relationship between Marlene Dietrich and Erich Maria…
“Divine Rivalry,” at Hartford Stage, stylishly recreates a tale of dueling murals, pitting Leonardo da Vinci against Michelangelo.
This production at the Yale Rep makes it clear why August Wilson’s 1990 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama was showered with honor.
Edward Albee’s 1966 Pulitzer Prize-winning drama of friends-and-family angst is staged in a grand set at the Yale Repertory Theater.
“Let Me Down Easy,” a play by Anna Deavere Smith, is being staged on Nov. 13 at the Performing Arts Center at Purchase College.
A dying petty criminal and his son call for a dispirited priest to give last rites, and that’s where things come to life.
In “Broken Nails: A Marlene Dietrich Dialogue,” Anna Skubik plays both Dietrich, as a life-size puppet, and Dietrich’s maid.
In “Green,” by Chris Harcum, one of the last human beings in the universe is arrested for being poor and artistic.
WHEN Elaine Del Valle was a little girl, in the Brownsville section of Brooklyn in the 1980s, she lived in an apartment that required only one key to open the front door. But her mother had …
"Aurélia's Oratorio" is part magic show, part silent comedy, and lots of illusion.
Jeffrey Hatcher's "Mrs. Mannerly" is a two-actor show, with one in the title role and the other playing five children.
Nasty theater reviews bring a disparaged playwright and a critic together.
An adaptation of "The Diary of Anne Frank" is being performed at the Westport Country Playhouse, through Oct. 30.
If "Ella," the Long Wharf Theater's first production of the season, has a message about Ella Fitzgerald, it is that she was terribly unattractive and a horrible mother. Whether true or not, …
“Through the Night” has been described as a look at what it means to be black and male in the United States today, but its deepest meanings transcend race and gender.
“Mercy and the Firefly,” having its world premiere at Luna Stage, goes for shock value with a story about a Roman Catholic nun with a secret who returns to her hometown.
Michael Wilson will be pursuing an independent career after 13 seasons in his current role, but he still has Shakespeare and Tennessee Williams on his schedule.
The new London musical production of “Les Misérables” is having its American premiere at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
The thirst for power in “State of the Union” at J City Theater in Jersey City will be familiar to Americans today.
Melissa James Gibson’s play “This” offers a tale of friendship, sex, jealousy and grief overlaid with a quiet optimism.
The Zella Fry Theater at Kean University presents a world premiere play about a suburban mother who tries to help the young victim of an African war.