136 stories by "Fred Sokol"
ANDRUS NICHOLS in an artful performance is also piercing in her role as "Gladys" wearing each moment upon her face in a masterful performance!
The playwright, channeling her mother's teenage years, effectively creates the Muscolino family, people struggling to find meaning and peace.
Sarah Ruhl's new, immensely provocative "Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince," ... juxtaposes the dynasty of Stuart Kings Charles I and II in seventeenth century Engla…
The arresting quality of the extraordinarily unique Cost of Living, a new show on the Nikos Stage at the Williamstown Theatre Festival, is undeniable. Moreover, many theatergoers (including …
The scope of the panoramic musical encourages all willing theatergoers to be transported, along with the actors, on a prolific journey. The production elements are, throughout, boldly impres…
... it is a show about illusion, reality, and the lives of a family of magicians and others ... Eric Price provides book and lyrics and Joel Waggoner the music.
Charles Aznavour, about to turn 92 and still writing, provides songs which sustain, and these are adapted with English lyrics by gifted Jason Robert Brown. Alfred Uhry (Driving Miss Daisy) h…
Finding inspiration through Lewis and Clark, the author does not write a play about actual events. It is kind of amusing to discover that Marnie, who attended college for one half of her fre…
Hartford Stage makes it manifest that Rear Window, already highly regarded as a story and film, can very well fit within the genre of theater.
These two women have collaborated to create a multi-faceted piece which tells the story of The God of Vengeance written by Sholem Asch in 1907.
Visually and emotionally arresting during its final portion, Eugene O'Neill's A Moon for the Misbegotten ... encourages sensitive, singular moments which are profoundly realized by Broadway …
It's not an easy play but the production is most rewarding.
I Do! I Do! is a delectable musical which features two near-perfect actors and, sitting just below them on the orchestra floor, two terrific pianists.
This is a fascinating play. It also challenges the theatergoer.
[John] Glover's extraordinary transformation is amazing. During the first portion of the show, his Wilson is witty, aware, and, at times, jaunty. As the stroke victim, he wears the physicall…
Callaghan, who writes with a spark, is unafraid to risk with her dialogue and she has a great ear for the colloquial.