416 stories by "ANITA GATES"
In "The Last Five Years," an intimate musical now at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, one career soars, one fails to take off and a marriage sours.
"Family Reunion" in Briarcliff Manor is an evening of two British one-acts " "A Kind of Alaska" by Harold Pinter and "A Number" by Caryl Churchill.
"The House That Will Not Stand" at Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven serves as something of a lesson in the custom of plaçage, in which black, American Indian or Creole women were "plac…
"The Bardy Brunch: The War of the Families Partridge and Brady" combines two television series from the 1970s and infuses them with Shakespearean plots.
Point by point, the horrible, heartbreaking truth of the life of the protagonist becomes clear in Sharr White's high-pitched drama "The Other Place."
"The Seafarer" is working-class-lyrical drama by Conor McPherson about a group of Irishmen who play a card game with an uninvited guest.
Mr. Leigh had been a writer of incidental music for Broadway comedies when he was given the break of a lifetime, going on to win a Tony Award for "La Mancha," though he never had another Bro…
In "4000 Miles," the playwright Amy Herzog drew from her life to create Vera, a character that is not a typical 91-year-old.
Based on the book, "Sex Tips for Straight Women From a Gay Man," at 777 Theater, invites audience participation.
Alexandra Silber discusses her role as a soldier's wife in the musical "Arlington," and why she stopped singing for years.
Two dissimilar founders of the N.A.A.C.P. collaborate in "Dr. Du Bois and Miss Ovington," from Woodie King Jr.'s New Federal Theater.
In "Freud's Last Session," a meeting in London between the psychoanalyst and the author C. S. Lewis turns personal.
Wendy Yondorf's play is a good-natured comedy that pokes fun at several prestigious American institutions of higher learning as well as New Jersey in general.
"East Towards Home," a Billy Yalowitz play, features a Jewish New Yorker's 20th-century mix of storytelling, memories and Woody Guthrie songs.
The venerable Carol Lawrence returns to the stage in "Handle With Care," a romantic comedy about an inept package deliverer who loses the body of an Israeli grandmother on a snowy Christmas …
"Christmas on the Rocks" imagines older versions of Ralphie, Charlie Brown and other characters from holiday classics.
Ms. Parker, an elegant, ladylike film actress, had her most recognizable role as the Baroness who loves Christopher Plummer's character in "The Sound of Music."
"Accidental Death of an Anarchist," by Dario Fo, is based on a real event, a suspicious fall from the window of a Milan police station.
Phylicia Rashad, who played Clair Huxtable in "The Cosby Show," said she liked being a director because she can "hold a vision and galvanize all of the creative energies involved." &nbs…
Patrick Barlow's adaptation of "A Christmas Carol" has fashioned a recognizable Scrooge, a poisoned man who seems sadly right at home in 2013.
"Lies My Father Told Me," a musical adapted from a film of the same name, is a coming-of-age story of a Jewish boy in Montreal.
In "Every Day a Visitor," the residents of a retirement home decide to play an all-encompassing game, and in certain ways, it saves their lives.
Keith Josef Adkins's "The Last Saint on Sugar Hill" is having its New York premiere at the National Black Theater in Harlem.
In "4000 Miles" at Pace University, the drama is built around a grandson's visit.
"The Underpants," by Steve Martin, adapted from Carl Sternheim, explores gender politics in 1910 Düsseldorf.
