90 stories by "Nancy Grossman"
... a gorgeous, sensual show that tells its complicated political story through the media of music and dance.
There is no shortage of superlatives to describe the touring production of An American in Paris, but most of them are overused. Rather than label it as sublime, or stunning, or as must see, …
Ensler's performance is engaging and without a shred of artifice as she obliterates the fourth wall and addresses the audience in an intimate, conversational style.
One of Jacobs-Jenkins' great achievements in An Octoroon is his ability to make us feel that we are simultaneously experiencing a theatrical event from 150 years in the past and something th…
To craft the play composed of the prose poems of Louis Jenkins, two-time Tony Award-winning actor Mark Rylance collaborated with Minnesota-based poet and director/composer Claire van Kampen.…
Dave Malloy's book and libretto extract the heart of the story, making it both accessible and contemporary, and director Rachel Chavkin's thrilling staging offers a non-stop sensory feast.
Expectations have been running high in two camps for the opening of the Huntington Theatre Company world premiere of A Confederacy of Dunces: fans of Nick Offerman as Ron Swanson in NBC's "P…
... ne side tickles your ribs with its rapier wit, while the other side incisively provokes your heart and mind with questions about the consequences of the choices we make.
... Marisa Smith's play is consistently funny and outrageous, and Jennifer Coolidge gives a knockout performance as the manipulative matriarch of a liberal, atheist Manhattan family coming f…
... pairing Broadway and television star Mandy Patinkin (A.R.T. debut) with playwright/performance artist Taylor Mac (The Lily's Revenge at A.R.T.), with direction and choreography by five-…
... this smaller, more intimate iteration by bookwriter John August and composer/lyricist Andrew Lippa reduces the size and scope of the Broadway production, directed by Susan Stroman, which…
Beyond the finely tuned performances, attentive direction, and crisp writing, Oceanside works because it is realistic and relevant.
Pitting antagonistic Jewish sects against each other, it might be subtitled "East Side Story," only with a comedic foundation.
... play that imagines the lives of those who serve the fictional Tyrone family.
The American Repertory Theater in Cambridge continues its commemoration of the 150th anniversary of the Civil War with Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Suzan-Lori Parks' new trilogy, Father…
A Future Perfect is marked by strong writing and three-dimensional, flawed characters, authentically portrayed by the four actors.
With intelligent, balanced direction by Bridget Kathleen O'Leary, it is impossible to find a seam where actors Esme Allen and Lewis D. Wheeler end and their characters begin.
Vanya (Martin Moran) and Sonia (Marcia DeBonis) live in the family's Bucks County, Pennsylvania, bucolic fieldstone house (beautifully conceived by scenic designer David Korins) where they c…
MacDonald inhabits rather than impersonates the late, great Texas columnist whose folksy intellect provides a wellspring of witticisms and anecdotes that entertain and enlighten.
It's at its best during the many musical numbers and whenever [Sirena] Abalian is center stage; but, while she is soaring on a higher plane, much of the show is struggling to achieve altitud…
... the latest entertainment to spill from the labyrinthian mind of the local playwright. Directed by frequent collaborator David R. Gammons, who likens the structure of Kuntz's play to that…
... is as much a giant wave in a cultural tsunami as it is a play.
