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All three characters in "The Understudy," being performed at TheaterWorks in Hartford, have taken jobs they normally wouldn't.
"Paper Cut" is one of those artfully quirky solo performances that make the New York International Fringe Festival worth checking out.
Jeffrey Sweet's solo show is like a series of entertaining, compelling, sometimes rambling excerpts from a long talk-show interview.
"Chasing Heaven" stops short of burning insight, but it is funny, thoughtful, brightly acted and about as timely as a play can get.
Series B of the Throughline Artists' Summer Shorts 5 festival of new American plays is a New York affair.
The production of Dario Fo's "Accidental Death of an Anarchist" by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey is at Drew University through Aug. 28.
"The Pretty Trap," a slight but intriguing one-act precursor to Tennessee Williams's "Glass Menagerie," is being given its New York premiere by Cause Célèbre at the Acorn Theater.
Mark Lamos directs the Westport Country Playhouse's production of "Lips Together, Teeth Apart," Terrence McNally's 1991 play about two straight couples visiting a beach house on Fire Island.
"The Judy Holliday Story," at New Jersey Repertory, is even and tasteful, but that may not have been the best way to go.
Howard Barker's 1983 play "Victory: Choices in Reaction," having its American premiere at the Atlantic Theater's Stage 2, features Jan Maxwell in a tour de force performance.
Shakespeare's little-known "Timon of Athens" is at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater at Drew University through July 24.
In "Sirens," the Penguin Repertory Theater comedy, neither men nor their Greek sea temptresses have changed, but their digital playthings have.
"I Wish You Love" considers Nat King Cole's image, the man beyond it and his place as a black entertainer in the racially charged America of the 1950s and '60s.
"The Greenwich Village Follies," at Manhattan Theater Source, is a historical tour of the Village, with singing.
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival's sole non-Elizabethan offering this summer is a Jules Verne adaptation shot through with silliness.
Shakespeare on the Sound's lively, likable production of "Much Ado About Nothing" abounds with characters and situations that contemporary young people can easily relate to.
"The Circle," W. Somerset Maugham's 1921 play, includes Marsha Mason as a fallen woman and Paxton Whitehead as the husband she left.
In "Ajax in Iraq," Ellen McLaughlin tells the parallel stories of the Trojan War figure and an American soldier.
Molière's "The Misanthrope," onstage in Madison, is a 17th-century gem that speaks clearly about the current social condition.
Molière's "The Misanthrope," onstage in Madison, is a 17th-century gem that speaks clearly about the current social condition.
When " 'S Wonderful" works at the Gateway Playhouse in Bellport, it works beautifully.
The 3 Graces Theater Company offers a rendition of Arlene Hutton's play, "As It Is in Heaven."
Two River Theater Company's production of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" comes through as a moving and entertaining evening.
Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor," being staged in Croton Falls, was inspired by Mr. Simon's early television career working for Sid Caesar.
Mr. Conaway, who earned praise as Kenickie, John Travolta's bad-boy sidekick in the film version of "Grease," was known to have an addiction to alcohol and drugs.
