1,545 stories by "David Finkle"
The Royal Shakespeare Company's production of Shakespeare's gender-bending comedy gets most everything right.
Tyne Daly gives a superb performance as opera great Maria Callas in Manhattan Theatre Club's worthy revival of Terrence McNally's play.
Andrea Mauella and Mark Shanahan shine in the Irish Repertory Theatre's chilling revival of Karoline Leach's two-hander.
The "problem plays" Shakespeare uncorked in the early 17th century contain enough problems that there's no call for directors and players to add new ones. That, however, is what's …
Falstaff is going global. Or you might say, Falstaff is going Globe-al. What's meant by that? Well, Shakespeare's Globe London Cinema Series begins tonight with 6:30 p. m. screenings in t…
Reports on six worthwhile British productions, including Dominic West in Butley, Kristin Scott Thomas in Betrayal, and Alex Kingston in Luise Miller.
It's as if a huge state-of-the-art factory has been built to produce one small bells-and-whistles toy that awes children of some ages for a few minutes before they lose interest.
This adaptation of Ken Ludwig's classic farce rarely improves on the original.
The new London production of the Broadway musical shines much brighter than before.
London audiences can take in two star-studded productions of Shakespeare's Much Ado About Nothing.
John Doyle directs and designs the Stephen Sondheim-John Weidman musical Road Show, with other fare including Lend Me a Tenor The Musical, Ghost The Musical, Kevin Spacey in Richard III, Sim…
The best is yet to come? Not this time. It's already here as it deliciously unfolds by way of singers Sally Mayes, Lillias White and Rachel York.
Maria Dizzia and Greg Keller give spirited performances in Daniel Goldfarb's pair of one-acts about parenthood.
Book lovers, here's a full disclosure about reporter/bookist me and BookExpo America 2011 at New York City's Jacob Javits Center: I go for the giveaways.
This observer believes the musicalized version of George Bernard Shaw is not only a sorrowful entertainment, but indicative of a much larger concern about how the musical, as a genre, is evo…
Jonathan Marc Sherman's intermittently affecting new play concerns a 40-year-old man facing fatherhood for the first time.
Kushner has produced a play also reminiscent of Arthur Miller at the top of his form, a play about which many ticket buyers will conclude he's equaled Miller's best.
Ronan Noone's new play about a dysfunctional family in Kansas is often ludicrous.
The 2011 Tony Award nominations were announced early Tuesday morning, which can only mean that the annual press meet-and-greet erupted -- or something like that -- not quite so early Wednesd…
The popular cabaret singer's appealing new show at the Algonquin Hotel's Oak Room celebrates women songwriters.
The Irish Repertory Theatre serves up a worthwhile production of Dion Boucicault's rarely-seen 19th-century melocomedy.
London's starry May includes Penelope Wilton and Imelda Staunton in A Delicate Balance; Rupert Everett and Diana Rigg in Pygmalion; Kristen Scott Thomas in Betrayal; Zoe Wanamaker and Conlet…
David Cromer's revival of John Guare's visionary tragicomedy is only partially successful.
Nina Arianda, Jim Belushi, and Robert Sean Leonard do stellar work in Doug Hughes' smartly directed revival of Garson Kanin's timeless comedy.
Robert Lepage's new production of Wagner's beloved opera proves to be spellbinding.
