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Pee-wee nostalgists impatient for next year’s Judd Apatow-produced feature will get their fix in this giddy return to the Playhouse.
A cheerleader vibe permeates the New York Musical Theater Festival, an annual developmental showcase that has propelled shows like “Next to Normal.”
Review
Jacking up the comic volume on intimate material, this stage treatment smothers the off-kilter appeal and tender character observation of the movie.
“Baby Universe: A Puppet Odyssey” is a funny and poignant eco-fable.
When the buffoonery and pretentious airs are erased by the cruel reality of his character's schizophrenia, the "King's Speech" actor's powers are fully unleashed.
'I've been preparing for this role for a long time,' says the actress, who is bringing her performance as Amanda Wingfield to the Mark Taper Forum.
David Bertolino’s first play focuses on Harry Reems, a star of the movie “Deep Throat.”
“The Sneeze,” at City Center, offers an uneven look at a collection of Chekhov pieces presented by the Pearl Theater.
An adaptation of Kafka’s “Metamorphosis” at the Brooklyn Academy of Music has been conceived with visual imagination and startling physical power.
“Dollface,” a new musical set in the 1950s, brings humor straight from the Borscht Belt to the Lower East Side.
Some of Broadway's finest performers and top-tier craftsmen take a valiant stab, but they can't give this misconceived musicalization of the 1988 Pedro Almodovar film a life of its own.
Penetrating characterizations and a seamlessly knit ensemble breathe rich emotional life into Chekhov’s play
In The Punishing Blow, a one-man show by Randy Cohen, a professor gives a lecture, with personal digressions, on a Jewish boxer in 18th-century Britain.
David Foley's stodgy nondrama is about the relationship between the notorious Lizzie Borden and Nance O'Neil, an otherwise little-remembered stage and screen actress.
For the Tony Award-winning actress, Sunday is a day to sleep in, read scripts and enjoy the pace of a slowed-down city.
The big shock when sitting down finally to assess this $65 million web-slinging folly, is what a monumental anti-climax it turns out to be.
As tough as it is tender and shot through with aching authenticity, Good People is that rare play that is timeless and keyed into a specific moment of American life, without the need to gras…
“Spy Garbo,” a historical rumination by the playwright Sheila Schwartz, has been given an innovative staging at the 3LD Art & Technology Center.
Family is a life sentence in Tommy Nohilly's caustic study, shot through with darkly funny observations and exposed nerves, authenticated in the New Group's production by a tremendous cast w…
Neil LaBute seems to be barely trying in this wisp of a play, kinda-sorta about spiritual redemption.
The Godlight Theater Company turns Clifford Chase’s novel about a teddy bear accused of terrorism into a stage play.
Deirdre Kinahan’s “Hue & Cry” is a taut distillation of human experience into a real-time, half-hour encounter....
Review of "Hurricane Katrina Comedy Festival" at Fringe 2010
A play that tends to chafe with modern audiences is transformed via this clear-headed reclamation into a haunting drama for our financially and morally complicated times.
