262 stories by "ERIC GRODE"
The inspirations for Lisa D’Amour’s comedy “Detroit” The phrase “There goes the neighborhood” could be said by (and applied to) all four of the main chara…
Jeff Whitty’s fresh book for the Broadway cheerleading musical Counting the direct-to-DVD sequels, there are five Bring It On movies, and Bring It On: The Musicalmimics exactly none of…
Bradley Cooper will be the latest in a line of handsome actors playing the disfigured Elephant Man onstage when he opens in the role in Williamstown, Mass.
In "Triassic Parq the Musical," an all-female group of dinosaurs is shocked when one of its T. rexes suddenly becomes male.
Intense collaboration produces a powerful show at Soho Rep Between acts of Annie Baker’s arresting adaptation of Chekhov’s Uncle Vanya, a cast member quickly unplugs the onstage …
"DruidMurphy," part of the Lincoln Center Festival, presents three plays by Tom Murphy, who inspired a generation of dark Irish playwrights.
The New Haarlem Arts Theatre thinks big in uptown Manhattan “We’ve set ourselves an ambitious set of goals, and the growing pains have definitely set in.” The first half of…
"Closer Than Ever," a 1989 musical revue, gets a revival directed by one of its creators.
The Amoralists head uptown to present Derek Ahonen's "The Bad and the Better," a sprawling neo-noir tale of betrayals, dangerous dames and terrorist plots.
The unusual collaboration behind the comedy “3C” It apparently takes three companies to take on Three’s Company. Nobody bats an eye at seeing as many as two dozen producers…
Eliza Clark's "Recall," despite its teenage talk and familiarly drab environments, is set in a "Minority Report"-style future.
In "Mr. Burns, a Post-Electric Play" the Civilians transform an episode of "The Simpsons" into something quite different at the Woolly Mammoth Theater Company in Washington.
"Playing With Fire," August Stindberg's rarely performed comedy of manners, is transported to a wealthy African-American enclave in the 1920s.
How J. David Brimmer stages comic fights in “Medieval Play” “Kenny has a lot of laughs in there, but we really want it to look like they’re going at it hammer and ton…
Central Park's Delacorte Theater has seen all of Shakespeare's plays plus other classic works in five decades of free performances.
In "American Jornalero," by Ed Cardona Jr., at the Intar Theater, day laborers hope for work but must brace for confrontation.
The Bedlam theater troupe, with a cast of four, is staging George Bernard Shaw's "St. Joan" at the Access Theater.
Inside the actor’s Tony-nominated performance in “Clybourne Park” Welcome to Building Character, TDF Stages’ ongoing series about actors and how they create their rol…
Reading the script of 'Water by the Spoonful,'' the new Pulitzer Prize winner in drama, makes clear that one can appreciate a play on the page as well as on the stage.
How sets and costumes survive the Broadway farce Whether it’s Venice in 1743 or the British seaside in 1963 or Broadway in 2012, you’ve got to have doors. Two of them. And not ju…
The Acting Company presents a modern-dress "Julius Caesar" at the Baruch Performing Arts Center, with TV monitors, protest signs and crisp articulation.
Meta-theatrical shenanigans take center stage in "Broke House," by Caden Manson/Big Art Group.
In "Being Shakespeare" at BAM, the actor Simon Callow testifies on behalf of the playwright.
The playwright Willy Holtzman considers a past-her-prime violinist and her damaged Stradivarius in "The Morini Strad."
How playwright Eric Simonson made theatre out of basketball stars In the space of eight years, Larry Bird and Earvin “Magic” Johnson Jr. won a combined six NBA championships. Bir…
