413 stories by "Anita Gates"
"It's Just Sex!," subtitled "A New Comedy About Lust & Trust," is a sweet but very lightweight comedy.
In George Kelly's 1924 comedy "The Show-Off," now at the Westport Country Playhouse, a North Philadelphia family is terrified their daughter will marry the no-account Aubrey. &nbs…
James Wesley's "Unbroken Circle," at St. Luke's Theater, stars Eve Plumb in a Texas comedy-drama with a whiff of "August: Osage County."
Theater Breaking Through Barriers presents six short plays by Bekah Brunstetter, Samuel D. Hunter, Neil LaBute and others featuring characters with disabilities.
Noël Coward's witty leading man is the sole center of attention in Two River Theater Company's production of "Present Laughter."
"Becoming Dr. Ruth," at TheaterWorks Hartford, details the life, with its hardships, of the famous on-the-air therapist.
The Schoolhouse Theater's lighthearted production of "Last of the Red Hot Lovers," which first opened on Broadway in 1969, brings back those days with a clear eye and a warm heart. &nbs…
The Irish comedy "The Playboy of the Western World" is being staged at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater in Madison, through June 23.
Stephen Burdman's staging of Chekhov's "Seagull" in Central Park requires the audience to get up and stroll en masse to a new location several times.
The celebrities that pop up throughout Rita Moreno's memoir include Marlon Brando, Elvis Presley and John F. Kennedy.
In "Marcellus Shale," townspeople of Rock Valley (site of fracking) try just to sit back and enjoy the monthly checks from the gas company, but that isn't always easy.
Joshua Conkel's comedy "I Wanna Destroy You" involves a face-off with New York characters flaunting unappealing values and a sense of entitlement.
"Clybourne Park," at Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, touches on race, genderism, classism and American xenophobia.
A film star invades the dumpy studio of an acting coach who fails to recognize her in "Class," a one-act play by Charles Evered at Penguin Rep Theater.
"Who's Your Daddy?" is Johnny O'Callaghan's solo show about adopting a Ugandan orphan.
It is often said that A. .R. Gurney writes about a dying breed. But the characters in "The Dining Room," the Westport Country Playhouse, are very much alive onstage.
"The Good Boy," Michael Bonnabel's solo show about his experience as a hearing son with deaf parents, is at Abingdon Theater.
"Kunstler," at Pace University, takes a journey through William Kunstler's most famous cases, including those of the Chicago Seven, the Attica prison-riots inmates and the American Indian Mo…
"The Mountaintop," at TheaterWorks Hartford through May 5, takes place in Room 306 of the Lorraine Motel on April 3, 1968, the night before the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassinatio…
In "Abundance," by Beth Henley at Hartford Stage, two wives discover the humor and cold horrors of the 19th-century unexplored West.
Mark S. Hoebee directs the Paper Mill Playhouse's production of "Thoroughly Modern Millie," a play based on a 1967 film written by Richard Morris.
John Shévin Foster's "Plenty of Time," at the Castillo Theater, is a journey through time via two people who meet just once a year.
In "Futurology the Musical," astronauts from the future travel through time to intervene when an aspiring young actress-singer is on the verge of being corrupted by a showbiz lizard. &n…
A mistaken husband's rage has consequences in a new production of "The Winter's Tale,' directed by Rebecca Taichman, at the McCarter Theater Center.
"Rich Girl" asks a timely question for fans of Henry James's "Washington Square": What if suspicious Victorian parents could have Googled their daughters' suitors?
