178 stories by "Deirdre Donovan"
Is Alzheimer's really something to sing about?
Colm Toibin's novella adapted as a star vehicle for Fiona Shaw.
Mike Poulton's adaptation of the 1900 play streamlines the original by nearly omitting all of Part 2. What it retains, however, is a complex portrait of a marriage, where love is a bruising …
Some Shakespearean renderings make loud footfalls. This production is one of them.
Featuring Austin Pendleton (who also directs the piece) as William Shakespeare, this bio-drama speculates on the Bard's final days as a man suffering from syphillis that severely debilitates…
After reviewing the overview, our critic decided to take the complete journey. No regrets
NAATCO (National Asian American Theatre Company) resurrects Strindberg's play with a taut, imaginative production
a disappointing page to stage version of Arthur Phillip's terrific faux memoir best-selling novel The Tragedy of Arthur has gone from the page to the stage at Off Broadway's TBG Theatre .
This 90-minute play scores on many levels and casts a new light on the Stonewall Riots. . .
Irwin and Shiner put a spade to their clowning roots and grow a brilliant new piece that has one foot in the past, one in the present, and surely plants them in the genealogical line of grea…
As directed by Mark Brokaw and with a new book by Douglas Carter Beane this fairy tale comes complete with a social consciousness, political satire, and contemporary edge
he Pearl Theater continues its exploration of Shakkespeare's History plays in its new home on 42nd Street
David Henry Hwang's early play receives a fine production at at the Pershing Square Signature Center.
not the same old Shakespearean spinach but a penetrating look at some of the Bard's most fascinating women. It goes a long way toward revealing how each female personage ticks
The Nature Theater of Oklahoma has recycled that antiquity known as oral history into an epic bio-drama .
The golden oldie movie is a fun radio play at the Irish Rep .
if Amy Freed, in collapsing the two plays, loses some structural elements, she doubly drives home the bawdy wit and humor. . . . Read More
Under the direction of Obie Award winner Jo Bonney this show has powerful moments, although it doesn't break any fresh theatrical ground for its activist author.
Oscar-winner Olymbia Dukakis as the latest gender-bending exiled monarch
How the Tony Award winning Scottish star Alan Cumming manages performing all the characters is something to marvel over. The difficulty is not just that Shakespeare's play has so many meaty …
The Public Theater is celebrating its 50th anniversary season at the Delacorte Theater (in Central Park) with Daniel Sullivan's terrific new staging of As You Like It. Starring Lily Rabe as …
Plugging into the Beckettian landscape of alienation, Will Eno, via Conor Lovett, takes you to a brave new world where a nameless man discovers that going nowhere is the new truth
David Herskovits' new take is a cross-pollination of Brechtian theater, Joycean stream-of-consciousness, and a clipped American idiom
In case you forgot, Shakespeare's natural bent was comedy. Classic Stage' s Dream proves it
Emily Dickinson's words "Remorse is memory awake" takes on grisly new meaning in Jose Rivera's new play
