Shylock's inflexible insistence on the bond he made with Antonio for a pound of flesh were the 3,000 ducats not repaid -- that's to say, Shylock's unrelenting stance as a broader revenge on …
Fiction set in the future never seems to have nailed it right when the actual future rolls around. Maybe Jules Verne hit on...
Playwright Deborah Zoe Laufer and director Liesl Tommy want to assure you that science can be fun. In pursuit of the noble...
As far as I know, the most chillingly romantic scene in American dramatic literature occurs in the second half...
Kerr focuses on Unity, a small Saskatchewan town, during the unhappy year when the world-wide-epidemic threatened at the same time as World War I soldiers damaged by mustard gas began to ret…
On the surface, things couldn't be more ordinary.
There's a reliable rule of the stage according to which, if the actors are having fun, the audience absolutely will. That's what's rambunctiously going on throughout Daniel Sullivan's fooli…
That a musical -- a musical! -- should recount a gritty slice of American history so beautifully is singularly moving.
It's a slick little thriller, is Christopher Stetson Boal's Pimm's Mission, directed snugly by Terrence O'Brien...
The live performance part occurred July 29 at Joe's Pub, where Nora York--who's appeared at the venue every three or four months for several years as well as at any number of other prestigio…
Though the abrupt changes of tone are initially jarring, it doesn't take long for the audience to understand that the ensuing transitions from a subdued dinner party to the frenetic behavior…
There's a fantasy I have about stand-up comics and a shrine they keep somewhere in their homes. On it are little stereotype...
The treatment of women as second-class members of humanity, no matter what their accomplishments, is occupying the thoughts of the Potomac Theatre Project, again in residence this summer at …
Is a gale-wind force of a closer enough to forgive what's gone before?
Sure enough, by the time the first act finished, I was much more impressed with the adaptation of Joseph Moncure March's engagingly dark Jazz-Age poem than I'd been the first time around -- …
Hynes had to be fully aware that fitting four plays that usually run close to three hours each into a five-hour-35-minute playing time meant that much of the Bard's excised dialogue would be…
Remember what John Boswell quoted Samuel Johnson as saying?
In this day of 90-minute productions, many of which might have been expanded to make their point(s) more effectively, there remain productions of greater length that could have stood judicio…
What follows is an unadulterated rave for the Encores! Off-Center presentation, at City Center, of the beloved Howard-Ashman-Alan Menken Little Shop of Horrors, as adapted from the 1960 Roge…
Every so often a playwright has two plays or even more open almost simultaneously. The scheduling coincidence (?) tempts a more taut assessment of where the playwright is in his or her care…
Gets you thinking about conventional limitations, doesn't it?
The next wave of Great Britain's domination of Broadway.
A myth about the Taj Mahal goes that when it was completed as an Agra, India palace for Shah Jahan's wife--who didn't live to...
TONY AWARDS PRESS ROOM--Although the space where we flacks are packed into rows is provided with a simulcast...
Compounding the trouble for Heisler is that she hasn't constructed a taut version of the old story. Her treatment, perhaps due to unwisely hewing to the film, is overrun with plot diversion…