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★★ A cheerful Condola Rashad confidently portrays Shaw's saintly warrior as a pleasant peasant
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★★★ Lucy Thurber's latest drama contrasts a couple of disadvantaged students who aim for a better life
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★★★ A French antique is smartly refinished by David Ives, but gets tarnished by its express delivery
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★★★★ A diabolical visitor encounters amazing grace in Conor McPherson's supernatural Irish drama
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★★★★ An imaginative quasi-documentary sees an elephant's precious tusks pass through a chain of ivory traffickers
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★★★★ The bittersweet Rodgers & Hammerstein classic sounds far lovelier than it looks
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★★★ An incandescent Daphne Rubin-Vega blazes through a topical new musical at The Public
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★★ A sorrowful teen survivor wonders: "So why don't the grown-ups just fix it?"
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★★★★ Chris Evans and Michael Cera face off in a provocative study of shady behavior at the newly redone Hayes Theater
★ Dan Lauria depicts an arrogant artist in a tedious mix of shallow dramatics and fanciful visuals.
★★★★ Billy Crudup smoothly portrays a seductive rogue and his many admirers in a new solo play.
★★★ In Later Life, A.R. Gurney paints a Jamesian portrait of a gentleman's second chance at true love.
★★ Ed Harris leads excellent actors through a loosely-knit string of case studies in David Rabe's overlong new drama.
Possibly you are familiar with a guy like Aubrey Piper, the egotistical title figure of THE SHOW-OFF: Aubrey is a noisy know-it-all whose sense of truth is only marginally anchored in realit…
In "Exit the King" by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, a 400-year-old ruler must go, eventually.
The rarely produced play, visually updated in this revival by the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, pits a scornful Roman consul against a boisterous populace.
The award-winning 'Circle Mirror Transformation,' a study of an amateur drama class, is the inaugural offering of a formerly vagabond company.
This revival in the New Jersey theater stays true to the classic musical with traditional staging, high-flying dances and teenage-fueled emotion.
A trio of shady ladies figure in "Villainous Company," Victor L. Cahn's new play, with duplicitous doings and plot twists.
Noël Coward's play, about a man whose ex-lover confronts him with details of his dark past, offers conflict, surprise and an affecting conclusion.
Upbeat suburban scenes are interrupted by travels to a different world in inner-city Philadelphia, with a deadly serious twist.
Poignant moments punctuate "Old Love New Love," a play by Laura Brienza that is receiving its world premiere at Luna Stage Company in West Orange, N.J.
The new program NJPAC Stage Exchange commissions plays and promises staged readings and eventually full productions in Newark.
The play by Deborah Rennard, in its world premiere at the New Jersey Repertory Company in Long Branch, portrays two women in love with a scoundrel.
The play, by Bárbara Colio, focuses on three men bound uneasily together by their distant ties to their father, a tightrope walker who abandoned them as boys.
