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David Lindsay-Abaire's "Good People," a very fine new play starring Frances McDormand and Tate Donovan, is one of the more subtly surprising treats of this theater season.
At the closet-sized Finborough Theater, a novelist with a double life discovers that a knighthood comes with blackmail attached in "Accolade."
At the closet-sized Finborough Theater, a novelist with a double life discovers that a knighthood comes with blackmail attached in "Accolade."
Commentary on suddenly tearing up during scenes in Shakespeare's comedies
Commentary on suddenly tearing up during scenes in Shakespeare's comedies
Mary Shelley's monster is birthed onstage in London by the Oscar-winning director Danny Boyle, who has a keen sense of the trappings of life in this world.
Keira Knightley, Elisabeth Moss and Rebecca Hall have taken to the London stage and audiences are lining up.
Tom Stoppard's "Arcadia" returns, the "South Park" team tries Broadway, and Chris Rock turns up in a play.
In "Compulsion," a dynamic Mandy Patinkin meets his match in a puppet version of Anne Frank.
Geoffrey Rush, who plays the title character in Gogol's "Diary of a Madman" at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, reminds us that it's a fine, fine line that divides the lunatic from the clown.
When something goes wrong during a show, the illusion of reality that has been created on stage can fall apart before your eyes.
When something goes wrong during a show, the illusion of reality that has been created on stage can fall apart before your eyes.
"Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark" is not only the most expensive musical ever to hit Broadway; it may also rank among the worst.
This seldom-seen Jacobean drama, based on an actual incident in 17th-century England, been given an insightful production by the Red Bull Theater company at Theater at St. Clement's.
A fresh and affecting Classic Stage Company production of Chekhov's "Three Sisters" features Jessica Hecht, Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard.
"Gruesome Playground Injuries" is a blood-spattered twig of a play from the up-and-coming dramatist Rajiv Joseph.
David Auburn's version of "The New York Idea" updates a 1906 comedy of mores.
Ms. Ebersole, I was reminded with renewed force, is a rarity among musical comedy stars.
Ms. Ebersole, I was reminded with renewed force, is a rarity among musical comedy stars.
More than perhaps any other Broadway costume designer of the past half century, she understood that for a certain kind of show, nothing less than all-out dazzle would do.
More than perhaps any other Broadway costume designer of the past half century, she understood that for a certain kind of show, nothing less than all-out dazzle would do.
Shakespeare with a small cast, multiple roles for each actor and streamlined scenes.
Ibsen's "John Gabriel Borkman," from the Abbey Theater of Ireland, is in production at the Harvey Theater in Brooklyn.
Audiences will surely find something wonderful in each of the five performances at the center of Jon Robin Baitz's new play, "Other Desert Cities," at Lincoln Center.
La Mama, the East Village theater Ellen Stewart created and led, is not a 1960s relic; it continues to produce unexpected and even prophetic art.
