Review: 'Captive Audience,' Seven Plays by David Ives by New York Deaf Theater
This production features a cast of four deaf and four hearing actors, using both spoken English and American Sign Language.
This production features a cast of four deaf and four hearing actors, using both spoken English and American Sign Language.
"The Diary of Anne Frank" reminds us that the Franks weren't just hallowed historical names but something far more complex: human beings.
In Motti Lerner's sober drama, a divorced couple meet after 20 years, stirring up divisive issues of faith and individual choice.
Andrew Farmer's play at the Walker Space raises the specter of a boogeyman who preys on children in 1910 New York.
A new drama set in a mostly African-American village soon to be razed for Central Park will debut at Kean University.
After losing its old "stage" to redevelopment, the group presents its first play of the summer at a lot nearby.
Set on a Caribbean island, a new stage drama, "Closure," revolves around the disappearance of a young woman, the strain it puts on her parents and a detective's efforts to find her.
"Love's Labour's Lost," presented in an outdoor amphitheater, displays exceptional Shakespearean wordplay that makes it hard to produce, requiring a mastery of language and pacing.
This third cycle of plays includes a tale about two Japanese courtesans and another about the trajectory of a father-daughter relationship.
Winsome Brown's one-woman show remembers the performer's cigarette-smoking, alcoholic and Dublin-born mother in a flesh-and-blood portrait.
In “Molly Sweeney,” at the Irish Repertory Theater, a woman who has been blind almost since birth undergoes an operation, with profound consequences.
“Carnival Round the Central Figure” is an absurd and macabre meditation on death.
The Pearl Theater Company’s production of Ibsen’s “Rosmersholm” is compelling, as the characters grapple with unvoiced emotions.
“Momentum,” from the Tel Aviv performance troupe Mayumana, has an infectious beat and physical pyrotechnics to match.
For an audience being held hostage by “TheBcam/MacBeth,” even the intermission is an ordeal.
Experimental theater often requires your forbearance, and “Storm Still,” a riff on Shakespeare’s “King Lear,” tests the audience’s boundaries.
Even when “In Transit,” an a cappella musical about a group of New Yorkers and their travails, turns a bit too sweet, it’s tough not to smile along.
Dan Lauria (the dad in "The Wonder Years") wrote and stars in this comedy about mobsters awaiting punishment for a botched job.
The four-character play by Richard Strand is having its world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch.
"Rapture, Blister, Burn," a play by Gina Gionfriddo, will run through May 3 at the Dreamcatcher Repertory Theater in Summit, N.J.
"Baskerville," a comic retelling of "The Hound of the Baskervilles" by Arthur Conan Doyle, finds Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson being asked to investigate a death in the English countryside.
The Jonathan Tolins play, "Buyer & Cellar," at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick, imagines the hiring of a caretaker for Barbra Streisand's underground mall of keepsakes.
The war transformed a benign theater project into a docuplay that tries, with some success, to convey the feeling of living in a country being plunged into chaos.
In "The Most Deserving" in Summit, conflict and comedy develop over who will get an arts grant in a small town in Kansas.
Mr. Cariani has joined the cast of his new nine-vignette romantic comedy, billed as a "darker cousin" to his international hit "Almost, Maine."