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Tyne Daly stars as Maria Callas in a revival of Terrence McNally's 1995 play, "Master Class."
Great performances of madness on stage
A revival of Jon Robin Baitz's "Three Hotels" at the Williamstown Theater Festival provides evidence of his gift for translating complicated feelings into a theatrical language that both sin…
In "All's Well That Ends Well" for Shakespeare in the Park, a good woman loves an unworthy man. Sound familiar?
While "Unnatural Acts" is a docudrama, based on real events of 1920, it often has the aroma of a ripe, lurid melodrama of a slightly later vintage.
Joely Richardson and Cotter Smith play a combustible couple in "Side Effects" by Michael Weller at the Lucille Lortel Theater.
I would like to thank the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences for helping make the Tony Awards watchable again.
The mega-expensive musical "Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is no longer the ungodly, indecipherable mess it was in February. It's just a bore.
Moisés Kaufman has adapted a 1944 short story by Tennessee Williams about a hustler.
Carey Mulligan is a woman facing insanity in a stage adaptation of Ingmar Bergman's "Through a Glass Darkly."
"Lysistrata Jones," a new musical by Douglas Carter Beane and Lewis Flinn, is a modern riff on Aristophanes' bawdy comedy.
This production of "The Illusion," adapted by Tony Kushner from a work by the 17th-century French playwright Pierre Corneille, trafficks in a special, baroque brand of magic.
I am proposing a little list that matches stars in search of redemption with stage roles tailor-made to their particular skills and images.
As you watch the stars of a Kennedy Center revival of "Follies" put on glittery costumes and make like comics from a Broadway of yore, you realize just why the show is one of the greatest mu…
Two seemingly moribund staples, the musical and the comic drama, have come throbbing back to life.
"By the Way, Meet Vera Stark" imagines the back story of one of those talented black actresses seen on 1930s movie screens almost exclusively in the roles of maids, slaves or mammies.
The long-awaited new play by Tony Kushner is a densely textured portrait of a Brooklyn family losing its (strictly secular) religion.
Derek Jacobi helps make Michael Grandage's production of "King Lear" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music a true entertainment.
An extraordinary, active empathy pervades every one of Tony Kushner's plays, extended even to those who would not appear to be his allies.
The nominations Tuesday confirm that high-quality legitimate dramas are still being written.
Donna Murphy plays an elderly Yiddish actress with a secret from the Holocaust in the Roundabout Theater Company's "People in the Picture.
"The Normal Heart," Larry Kramer's 1985 play about the AIDS epidemic, comes to Broadway in a revival with a top-notch cast.
There's little that's transporting in the somber new Broadway revival of John Guare's "House of Blue Leaves."
"Black Watch," a group portrait of Scottish soldiers in Iraq that was first seen here in 2007, returns to St. Ann's Warehouse in Brooklyn.
Mark Rylance plays a roaring wreck of a hero in "Jerusalem," Jez Butterworth's state-of-the-nation comedy about Britain.
