51 stories by "David A. Rosenberg"
A world premiere by Branden Jacobs-Jenkins at Yale Rep.
Goodspeed's revival is little more than a jukebox musical, using Irving Berlin's catalogue . .
Thornton Wilder's classis is drastically reconceived at Long Wharf
Lynn Nottage play in fine revival in Westport
lan Ayckbourn in fine form at Westport
"Prison Dancer" is a jovial yet touching new musical at NYMF based on true events about transformation and reform.and featuring Jose Llana in a fine cast.
The prospect of immortality is more arduous than appealing in "Foreverman," Brett M. Boles' new musical, at NYMF, about the discovery of the elixir of life.
The York Theatre's charming revival of Richard Maltby Jr. and David Shire's "Closer Than Ever" is enacted with devotion by a quartet of polished singers.
In “The Maria Project,” Marcella Goheen’s odyssey to uncover her family’s horrific long-suppressed secret ought to be more moving and humorous than it is.
With Dermot Crowley and Dearbhla Molloy as guides, poet Paul Durcan's playful stroll through London's National Gallery, at the Irish Rep, is enlightening.
Castillo Theater's revival of the musical "Sally and Tom," about the relationship between slave Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, is emotionless.
Rinde Eckert's aching adaptation of "Moby Dick," which Herman Melville himself described as his "wicked book," maintains much of its original power, although its focus has softened.
The seven deadly sins are no match for the venality that permeates the bloody, disease-ridden mayhem in this pounding adaptation of Sophocles' extant plays.
Scientific research and subjective domesticity clash in a race to find a cure for an epidemic in Matthew Maguire's deadly play, whose stakes, public or private, aren't high.
Pulitzer Prize–winning playwright Nilo Cruz's take on how the Cuban Revolution affected the commercial and romantic lives of individuals caught up in its fervor doesn't quite come to…
Odysseus' 10-year struggle to get home from Troy to Ithaca is fodder for this new musical that highlights Homer's great adventure without finding a fresh way to tell the tale.
What we don't know, or may never know, about the American torture of Gitmo prisoners is the searing background of Frances Ya-Chu Cowhig's prize-winning play about revenge.
How the inescapable sores of the Irish rebellions affect generations is told in this pair of thoughtful but mundane one-acts about the lives of two women.
Stuart Caldwell's dated, schematic two-hander about World War II and the Holocaust is further undermined by Caldwell's static direction and a monotonous, barely audible performance from Gi…
Claire Kiechel's complicated, consciously metaphoric new play, while intriguing, is overstuffed with ambitious themes and, despite Brad Raimondo's fluid direction, fails to involve us emot…
A.D. Penedo's intelligent and tightly written dramedy about lust and betrayal grabs from the first, an amusing cat-and-mouse game in the guise of budding romance under Christopher Windom's…
“Nils’ Fucked Up Day” is, like its title, an ear-burning piece of scatology. Once banned in its native Romania as “outrageous, obscene, and vulgar,” the play …
The little things we do to each other and ourselves in attempts to control our lives are the subjects of five one-act plays of varying but admirable quality.
In two agile, amusing comedies about the joys and disappointments of marriage and parenthood, Daniel Goldfarb offers an excellent showcase for a pair of 30-something actors.
Ensemble Studio Theatre's one-acts about displaced people trying to connect are only intermittently diverting. Though they're well-acted and presented with care, the evening rarely catches…
