294 stories by "David Sheward"
Director Charlotte Moore manages to squeeze lots of action, laughs, and a full Irish wake onto the tiny Irish Rep stage in this rollicking revival of an 1874 comic melodrama.
David Ives puts a modern spin on a classic of weight and size, and you'll never find a more enchanting "School for Lies."
The British company Punchdrunk creates a hypnotic nightmare of a show suggestive of Hitchcock and "Macbeth" from which you won't want to wake up.
Book writer and lyricist Iris Rainer Dart tries too hard for our tears and laughter in this melodramatic musical about a former Yiddish theater star.
Beth Leavel strives mightily to save this mishmash of a jukebox musical, but she can't perform miracles.
Director David Cromer emphasizes the darkness in John Guare's 1971 sad-funny farce, while leading man Ben Stiller fails to convince as a schlubby would-be songwriter.
Anne Bogart and a brave company of nine manage to make some sense out of Charles Mee's bizarre collage of a play about an ever-changing America.
One has to admire the Belarus Free Theatre for its dedication and courage, but its offstage story of getting to the United States is more gripping than its Harold Pinter program.
This update of Lewis Carroll's classic children's books fuses "The Wiz" with self-help psychobabble for a gloppy mess of a musical.
Tony Glazer's slim comedy could have been a pointed satire of our media-mad age but settles instead for 90 minutes of unfunny jokes.
At the 35th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, which runs through April 17, none of the full-length works featured more than six actors.
A miscast Chris Rock throws off the balance of Stephen Adly Guirgis' provocative and profane comedy-drama, but there is still plenty to praise.
Mona Mansour's moving play, centered on a family of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, has a familiar theme and a few structural flaws but displays plenty of promise.
Thanks to Kathleen Marshall's sleek staging and joyous choreography and a heaven-sent cast, this Roundabout revival of Cole Porter's classic is just about perfect.
Marisa Tomei and Frank Whaley find subtle shadings in Wallace Shawn's battling couple, but this 1979 dispatch from the frontlines of marital discord is too bleak to bear.
Robin Williams focuses his manic energy in a fiercely intense performance, but it's not enough to save Rajiv Joseph's weird and confusing play.
Last week, screen legend Elizabeth Taylor died Wednesday, March 23, at 79; character actor Helen Stenborg died just a few hours earlier at age 86.
Almost a year later, the Menier Chocolate Factory revival of the Jerry Herman–Harvey Fierstein musical retains its raw appeal, and Fierstein admirably fills Douglas Hodge's pumps.
The gleefully sophomoric sensibilities of "South Park" creators Trey Parker and Matt Stone perfectly mesh with the Broadway brio of Robert Lopez and Casey Nicholaw in this raw and riotous …
