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The Fiasco Theater's six-actor production of Shakespeare's crazy-quilt of a play is even pluckier and perkier than in its previous outing.
When it comes to typefaces, I've long been an Arial man. Still, I'm typing this on my aging Mac in Helvetica. Why? I've finished reading Simon Garfield's irresistible <em>Just My Ty…
This cabaret act at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room is a mixed bag of hits and misses.
Sung Hwa Chung delivers a strong performance as Korean national hero An Chunggun in this musically derivative tuner.
Simon Russell Beale delivers a must-see performance as a London taxi driver in Simon Stephens' skillfully crafted drama.
Gregory Lay and Sarah Manton do fine work in this less-than-persuasive drama about Albert Einstein's unhappy marriage.
Julie Salamon's new biography, Wendy and the Lost Boys, examines the playwright's complex life.
Ty Jones does a bang-up job in the title role of the Classical Theatre of Harkem's creative production of Shakespeare's play
We need to thank director-adapter Michael Gieleta for the revival of Noel Coward's <em>Bitter Sweet</em> at Bard College's Richard B. Fisher Center for the Performing Arts. Corr…
Anna Moench's play about a married couple facing pregnancy is calculatedly ambiguous and ultimately indecipherable.
One person's problem can be another's quick solution, which brings me to the Royal Shakespeare Company's version of <em>The Winter's Tale</em>, currently on view during Lincoln C…
Brian Cox, Jim Gaffigan, Chris Noth, Jason Patric, and Kiefer Sutherland bring Jason Miller's Pulitzer Prize-winning drama to urgent and abrasive life.
F. Murray Abraham gives a strong performance as Shylock in Darko Tresnjak's cogent -- and remarkably timely -- revival of William Shakespeare's play.
Frances McDormand delivers a Tony-worthy performance as a working-class mother desperate for a job in David Lindsay Abaire's comedy-laced drama.
March highlights include Joanna Riding in The Umbrellas of Cherbourg; Betty Blue Eyes, directed by Richard Eyre; Peter Brooks' production of Mozart's Magic Flute; The Hurly Burly Show; Matth…
TheaterMania reports on Frankenstein, The Heretic, Greenland, Season's Greetings, Company, and Clybourne Park.
Keira Knightley and Elisabeth Moss star in Ian Rickson's utlimately effective revival of Lillian Hellman's quasi-tragedy about two women facing rumors of lesbianism.
John Adams and Alice Goodman's remarkable historical opera makes a long-overdue debut at the Metropolitan Opera in Peter Sellars' thrilling production.
City Center Encores! offers a workmanlike production of Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill's musical adaptation of Cry, the Beloved Country.
This autobiographical tuner about a pair of songwriters trying to quickly write a musical is relentlessly unentertaining.
Anton Chekhov's classic play about a trio of unhappy Russian siblings gets an uneven production.
Highlights include Michael Crawford in Andrew Lloyd Webber's revamped Wizard of Oz, the London premiere of Million Dollar Quartet, Julie Atherton in Ordinary Days, Benedict Cumberbatch and J…
Sam Waterston, Brian Murray, and Shirley Knight deliver first-rate performances in Simon Gray's compelling play about the art world and an unusual domestic arrangement.
Geraldine Hughes, Ciaran O'Reilly, and Jonathan Hogan deliver excellent performances in the Irish Rep's excellent revival of Brian Friel's mesmerizing work.
The Mint Theatre serves up a beautifully acted production of Arnold Bennett's 1909 play about a scheming newspaper mogul.
