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★★★★★ Jack Cummings III stunningly directs the play that established the very idea of off-Broadway
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★★★★ Bill Russell writes the songs, Janet Hood the book for a maybe likely story of tolerance
The post Unexpected Joy: Mothers, Daughters Vie, Singing Joyful Tunes ap…
★★★★★ Tom Hollander heads a just about perfect cast, directed just about perfectly by Patrick Marber
The post Travesties: Tom Stoppard’s Brilliant Comedy …
★★★ Alexis Prion is the now-all-but-forgotten comic writer whose spoof is reworked
The post The Metromaniacs: David Ives Tickles a Rhyming French Mini-Classic appeared fir…
★★★★ Bartlett Sher directs Lauren Ambrose, Harry Hadden-Paton and an impeccable cast
The post My Fair Lady: Shaw Goes Ibsen in Sher’s Appealing Revival appeared…
★★★★ Matthew Broderick heads an expert ensemble is this realistic-surrealistic drama
The post The Seafarer: Conor McPherson’s Tense Drinking, Soul-Searching Ta…
★★★ Joshua Jackson as speech teacher to the deaf and Sarah Ridloff as unwilling student
The post Children of a Lesser God: Mark Medoff Prize Winner Back Forthrightly appear…
Let's talk a minute about my idea of this season's best and the worst television series: <em>Glee</em>.
★★★★★ Harry Connick Jr. leads a cast directed by John Rando and choreographed by Warren Carlyle.
The post The Sting: The Irresistible 1973 Oscar Flick as Irre…
★★★★ Director Gregory Doran runs mostly hot and sometimes cold on the Shakespeare masterpiece
The post King Lear: Antony Sher Makes Foolish Old Age Memorable appeare…
★★★ Rubin-Vega and Jiménez as an estranged mother and daughter renewing their love to songs
The post Miss You Like Hell: Hudes and McKeown View Mothers and Daughters appea…
★★★ The stage direction that goes "Exit, pursued by bear" gets it best showing ever
The post The Winter’s Tale: Arin Arbus’ Austere–Too Austere?–Rev…
★★★ Writer-performer Sharon Washington remembers being the girl who lived in the library
The post Feeding the Dragon: A Childhood Sometimes Charmed, Often Not appeared firs…
★ Classic rock warhorses meet classical warhorses, but the singers, orchestra, and choir reach no agreement
The post Rocktopia: Rock and Classical Fight to the Death, Both Lose appeare…
★★★★ Bedlam's Eric Tucker directs a six-member cast with Vaishnavii Sharma as Eliza and himself as Higgins
The post Pygmalion: Delightful Shaw, With Only Spoken Music…
★★★★ Director Christopher Ashley lets bookwriters Greg Garcia and Mike O'Malley loose on Parrot Head faves.
★★★★ The Actors Company Theatre spends Christmas Eve 1923 by circuitously following an Eastern Star.
Pig (Colin Campbell) and Runt (Evanna Lynch) are heard before they're seen in Enda Walsh's 1996 Disco Pigs, now revived at
There are actors whom audiences admire for their consistent good work, and that suffices. Then there are actors whom audiences
You can say this for Robert O'Hara, whose uneven, though acclaimed, Bootycandy prompted Playwrights Horizons folks to commission
If you know Ariane Mnouchkine's Theatre du Soleil, you know how big she likes to think. The space, situated in Paris's Bois
After touring schools, community centers, prisons and other other-than-theater venues, the Public Theater's Mobile Unit is
When Once on This Island debuted at Playwright Horizons in 1990, several tropical-bird feathers were added to the caps of
The final cast for Vincenzo Bellini's Norma, the 2017-18 Metropolitan Opera House season opener, has checked in, and were
In a few short years, Lesli Margherita has turned herself into a local favorite. She's one of those performers who firmly
