"Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo" is hard to categorize. It is both funny and dead serious, not exactly a black comedy but an idiosyncratic composite of many different dramatic antecedents.
The pairing of food for the stomach and food for the soul made me think of the role of culture in extreme situations.
As Louis Armstrong, the gifted actor John Douglas Thompson is working with a script whose lines and contours are as woefully predictable as a profile in the old Life Magazine.
A 19th-century Russian masterpiece presented in a translation and a production whose mishmash of style distorts the play and confuses both actors and audiences.
Why did Chester Theatre Company's Artistic Director Byam Stevens choose such a banal, lazily-written play with no drama, no development, barely any interesting language, and none of the wit,…
Theatergoers will find Khadim a new character in the American theater: an entitled, cosmopolitan Middle Eastern man, born in Damascus to Iranian parents, who speaks Farsi, Arabic, French, an…
If this sounds like a melodrama, that is because Arthur Miller wrote one. "All My Sons" was very much a product of the dramatist's times and politics.
"The Swan" is a bold choice for a theater company and demands excellent actors and direction to keep it afloat.
Tired of glitz and looking for a transformative musical experience? You can do no better than to hear this relatively unheralded musician play some of the most sublime music ever written.
Deftly directed by May Adrales, aided by sensitive sound, lighting, and costume design, "Animals Out of Paper" is exciting summer theater.
Two Berkshire theaters are offering one-woman shows this summer. Both scripts feature intelligent, frank, and charismatic women. Both productions star gifted and seasoned actors.
What "George Gershwin Alone" provides is a light, pleasant evening of familiar music, with playwright, pianist, and actor Hershey Felder performing excerpts from a dozen or so of Gershwin's …
Stefan Zweig's was a dramatic, action-packed, intense epic of a life, but Oliver Matuschek's biography, Three Lives, simply plods along.
Directed ably by Joel Zwick, a long-time collaborator of Hershey Felder's, the excellent Maestro: Leonard Bernstein includes the performer singing, playing the piano, and conducting as well …
"An Accident of Hope" is a fascinating read for anyone interested in writers, writing, psychotherapy, women, medical ethics and American society just before the great upheaval of the 1960s.
Though rooted in Boston history, "The Luck of the Irish," with its racial, class, marital and inter-generational conflicts, could be set anywhere in the world.
Claude Lanzmann is a great raconteur who's honed his narrative skills as a veteran journalist. His memoir is exuberant and provocative at its best; bombastic and superficial at its worst.
The people of Annawadi live in conditions so bleak that "Behind the Beautiful Forevers" evoked, for one Indian reviewer, Primo Levi's depiction of life in concentration camps.
This is shorter, no-frills Opera as Cinema than the Met HD supplies: without long intermissions, star interviews and audience preludes and postludes from Lincoln Center, it's almost an hour …
“The Hedgehog”‘s steady, slow pacing "- so rare in any film today "- captures the rhythms of haut bourgeois life in Paris and draws out the nuances of how people change and…