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Danai Gurira's moving history-based play gets a superb cast at the Public Theater
Cicely Tyson and James Earl Jones bring D.L. Coburn's back to its original Broadway home.
Its rhythmic quality gives Sam Sheperd's 1983 play the feeling of a musicalized fight drama. .
Robert O'Hara's uproarious satire is sure to be another hit for the hit-making Public Theater.
Caryl Churchill's early play still worth watching, though the reconfigured Atlantic Theater is likely to put you into a cloud nine comfort zone
a unique new take of a musical already acclaimed for its uniqueness. . .
This Edwardian domestic comedy has a Shavian flavor, that Harold Chapin would surely have developed more had he lived long enough .
Lucas Hnath's intriguing play about the divisiveness of different visions for being true to one's faith
a hilariously entertaining tribute to the art of drag performance -- and it has something to say as well
Anna Ziegler's intriguing play about an ill-fated love triangle
A. R. Gurney's new play is a case of little new and quite a bit that's borrowed .
Update on Annie Baker's play at the Signature in its final week --with link to new our new Baker's backgrounder added to Curtainup's Playwrights Album
he first American production of this bio-drama adds another jewel in John Douglas Thompson's crown . .
Thanks to a splendid cast and vivid staging, John Guare's problematically re-conceived mashup of Front Page and its screwball romantic movie follow-up is lots of fun .
The happily married Audra McDonald and Will Swenson bring new life to Eugene O'Neill's misbegotten lovers .
Jane Anderson's re-imagined version of the much dramatized Maid of Orleans story with Tina Packer her usual winning self as the Maid's mum
A hit downtown is an even bigger hit uptown . . . .
This 90-minute musical epic is a genuine WOW! . . Read More
World premiere of part 2 of Dominique Morisseau's Detroit cycle at Williamstown
- Yasmina Reza puts a famous author and a devoted reader into the same train compartment for some unexpected results. But don't expect it to be quite the crowd pleaser her big hit Art has be…
Neil Simon's Pulitzer Prize winner, winningly staged in Pittsfield., MASS
Carey Perlow's contemporary take on Racine's play buoyed by Cynthia Nixon in the leading role . .
The Berkshire Theatre Group teams up with young New Neighborhood group for a new and well worth seeing dysfunctional family drama .
the bells ringing aren't from cell phones in this classical musical comedy revival at the beautiful Colonial Theater
Ira Levin's twisty thriller revived in Stockbridge . . Read More
