413 stories by "Anita Gates"
"Room Service," now at the Westport Country Playhouse, is more subtle on the stage than in the Marx Brothers film.
"Tamar of the River," a musical by Marisa Michelson and Joshua H. Cohen, uses characters from a story in Genesis to send a message about peace.
"Gettin' the Band Back Together," now at the George Street Playhouse, is a playful, mildly irreverent musical that celebrates the resurrection of a high school garage band. …
In this "Waiting for Godot," translated into Yiddish, Vladimir and Estragon represent Holocaust survivors.
"The Farm," a darkly serious one-act play now at the Penguin Repertory Theater, pits a C.I.A. agent against an agency therapist.
In "A Streetcar Named Desire" at the Yale Repertory Theater, secondary characters stand out in a play normally dominated by the two central players.
"I Can See Clearly Now" is Sonya Kelly's memoir of growing up extremely nearsighted.
In "The Beautiful Dark," Erik Gernand has created complicated, recognizable people who are, like most of us, victims of their own flaws.
The National Asian American Theater production of Clifford Odets's "Awake and Sing!" easily make its point that human realities trump ethnicity.
In "Oblivion," Carly Mensch, a writer known for her work on cable television, asks her audience to consider bigotry from a different perspective.
In "Still Jewish After All These Years," at Stage 72, Avi Hoffman offers songs and life lessons from decades in the Yiddish theater.
Dave Hanson's play is about two understudies waiting for their chance to go on in Samuel Beckett's famed "Waiting for Godot."
Neal J. Freeman's horror comedy mashes up "A Midsummer Night's Dream" and vampire stories.
Jacques Deval's 1933 play about displaced Russian nobility is a European screwball comedy, but it also is much more.
The ghost of Walt Whitman visits a depressed young man in Kristian O'Hare's play.
D'Artagnan and his friends, united as ever, fight for honor and a comically played Louis XIII in Ken Ludwig's adaptation of "The Three Musketeers," now at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festi…
Almost half a century after his death, Joe Orton, who would be 80 now, has the power to shock even worldly 21st-century theatergoers. His "Loot" is at the Westport County Playhouse. &nb…
James Burn and Ian Poitier's musical is set behind-the-scenes at a long-running television soap opera.
"Me and Jezebel," at the Snapple Theater Center, is based on Elizabeth Fuller's memoir of a time in 1985 when Bette Davis came to her home to stay and stay and stay.
"Let It Be: A Celebration of the Music of the Beatles," at the St. James Theater, winds its way from the band's Liverpool days to the last album, and back again.
The new musical is about an overweight Long Island teenager who dreams of becoming a renowned magician.
The Long Wharf Theater has produced a classic jukebox musical that includes audience participation.
"Bill W. and Dr. Bob," a play about the founding of Alcoholics Anonymous, is produced by the Hazelden treatment center, but is 99 percent preachiness-free.
A "Midsummer's Night" production by the Classical Theater of Harlem in Marcus Garvey Park has piquant multicultural touches.
"Fallen Angels," the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey's newest indoor production, explores the sexual double standard of a bygone era.
