Henrik Ibsen is often considered the father of realism, but the citation is, more likely than not, a result of plays written later in a career that began in1850. It was<em> Ghosts</…
Henrik Ibsen is often considered the father of realism, but the citation is, more likely than not, a result of plays written later in a career that began in1850. It was Ghosts (1879) and A D…
Dick Gregory isn't playing himself in Turn Me Loose, at the Westside Theatre, although, at 83, he certainly could. Right now Joe Morton, whom current tv viewers know from Scandal, is imperso…
Dick Gregory isn't playing himself in Turn Me Loose, at the Westside Theatre, although, at 83, he certainly could. Right now Joe Morton, whom current tv viewers know from Scandal, is imperso…
Dick Gregory isn't playing himself in Turn Me Loose, at the Westside Theatre, although, at 83, he certainly could. Right now Joe Morton, whom current tv viewers know from Scandal, is imperso…
David Hare, who turns his plays out one on top of the next, can be sly when he wants. The Judas Kiss--about Oscar Wilde on the day he's arrested (April 6, 1895) for indecency and then, in th…
If you loved <em>Love, Loss, and What I Wore</em>, which opened off-Broadway in 2009 and is the Nora Ephron and Delia Ephron adaptation of Ilene Beckerman's book of the same titl…
If you loved Love, Loss, and What I Wore, which opened off-Broadway in 2009 and is the Nora Ephron and Delia...
What can be said is that the results are right up there with some of the best scores Rodgers helped turn out -- and Sondheim's agile words are also among his most devilishly clever.
The team's approach here is to keep everything from stopping to settle on one aspect. Not only do their rhapsodic melodies
When I watched it at a press preview and after maybe 60 or 70 minutes it ended, I was raring for it to start all over again
If you're the kind of musical lover who gets discerning every once in a while, preferring something other than one boffo number...
Christopher Fitzgerald, sporting a pair of spanking-new black-and-white running shoes, isn't going to comment when I ask
This is director Marshall Mason, who founded the Circle Repertory Company in the early 1960s and has contributed immeasurably
Michael Shannon, sitting in a tufted, black leather chair on rollers, is trying to get comfortable with it. Shifting in...
While I was watching Jordan Jaffe's Crude, I thought that this is one play I can't see ever being done anywhere in or near Texas. That tells you how uninformed about it I was on going into t…
While I was watching Jordan Jaffe's <i>Crude</i>, I thought that this is one play I can't see ever being done anywhere in or near Texas. That tells you how uninformed about it I …
In redacting The Idiot Lyons and Marting have concentrated on the complicated, bordering-on-ludicrous love-hate relationships
What will happen? Will agreeable Nellie venture into a hot-oven area to retrieve the tin and possibly scorch himself, or
Call them gang comedy-dramas, if you like. The truth is, you might want to get in the habit, because they appear to...
Although there's much to praise in the Young Vic-Joshua Andrews co-production of Tennessee Wiliams's superb A Street...
Although there's much to praise in the Young Vic-Joshua Andrews co-production of Tennessee Wiliams's superb <em>A Street Car Named Desire</em>, now transported to St. Ann's Wareh…
Jesse Berger has been devoting his Red Bull Theater company to presenting first-rate productions of the classics, which...
Not when Barber, amusingly pinched mouthed, is on the boil. Or when Mr. Snake is bowing and scraping in an architecturally
No, American Psycho, an imported Almeida and Headlong production, is not about the current Republican presidential campaign. On the...