294 stories by "David Sheward"
Simon Callow delivers a fascinating combination of history lecture and dynamic Shakespearean survey at Brooklyn Academy of Music.
This is a softer, gentler take on Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s hit, with uneven performances from Elena Roger, Ricky Martin, and Michael Cerveris.
The Tony winner joins calls for Shakespeare's Globe to revoke an invitation to Israel's Habima company for a theater festival.
Tracie Bennett goes far beyond impersonation with an indelible performance as the legendary Judy Garland in Peter Quilter’s “End of the Rainbow.”
The film-based musical tops the list for the Off-Broadway awards with seven noms; "Tribes" follows with six.
The author of "Brothers of the Dust" is honored with the prize from the American Theatre Critics Association.
The cast and creators of “[title of show]” reunite for a musical self-help seminar at the Vineyard Theatre that’s more lecture than musical revue.
The Humana Festival of New American Plays wraps up with a discussion of dream theaters and a fresh and fly work on the impact of rap.
“Death Tax,” “The Veri**on Play,” “Michael von Siebenburg Melts Through the Floorboards,” and “The Hour of Feeling” open at Humana Festival.
Des McAnuff delivers a flashy but empty staging of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice’s rock opera about the last seven days of Christ, from Stratford.
"My Occasion of Sin," Monica Bauer's drama of strained race relations in 1960s Omaha, at Urban Stages, suffers from a bad case of split personality.
The Pearl Theatre Company offers an intimate staging of Eugene O'Neill's oft-produced romantic tragedy that is more like a caress than a knockout blow.
Enda Walsh's intimate romantic tuner based on the Oscar-winning film survives the transfer to Broadway. Cristin Milioti and Steve Kazee are heartbreaking.
The lyricist for "Jesus Christ Superstar," "Evita," and "The Lion King" will be honored in London for his contributions to musical theater.
CollaborationTown’s riotous parody of Brecht and Shakespeare is sharper than it was in 2006 at the New York Fringe Festival, but it’s still too long.
Denis O'Hare and Stephen Spinella take distinct yet equally thrilling approaches to Homer's ageless classic in repertory solo performances at New York Theatre Workshop.
Kathleen Chalfant delivers a multilayered and moving performance in Tina Howe's 1983 drama of a family of artists, revived by Keen Company.
A musical version of the ultimate frat-house comedy "Animal House" is in development with music by the Barenaked Ladies.
Katori Hall creates a vibrant community in this Signature Theatre production, but "Hurt Village" seems more of a political statement than a slice of life.
The Irish Repertory Theatre blows the dust off Eugene O'Neill's 1920 Pulitzer Prize winner, "Beyond the Horizon," in this fresh and challenging production.
David Stallings' "The Stranger to Kindess," part of Frigid New York, employs too many clichés in its depiction of the loneliness of the urban jungle.
Four New Yorkers bounce in and out of bed in Elephant Run District's "Rabbit Island," Chris Harcum's raucous comedy in the Frigid New York festival.
F. Murray Abraham is too tentative as the great astronomer Galileo in an otherwise worthy CSC revival of Bertolt Brecht's epic biography.
Rob Ackerman seeks to evoke the spirit of Emerson in "Call Me Waldo" but delivers a ramshackle comedy in this Working Theater production.
David Drake creates a kooky, lovable drag version of a drugged-up D-lister who happens to be Joey Heatherton's niece in "My Tawny Valentine."
