1,519 stories by "Peter Marks"
It's the year of the "Hamilton" composer, who continues to receive accolades
REVIEW || The musical is far less sensational than the Bret Easton Ellis novel on which it is based.
The creators of the musical, a hit at Arena Stage, are refining it in the run-up to its New York debut.
With a team of stars, the director brings "Shuffle Along" back to Broadway.
REVIEW|| Langella convincingly portrays an old man losing himself, though the play never rises above the predictable.
A highly praised revival this season of Arthur Miller's tragedy will make its way to the Kennedy Center this fall
Woolly Mammoth Theatre stages Jennifer Haley's Web-inspired drama.
|| REVIEW "Wrestling Jerusalem" is Aaron Davidman's beguiling report on his travels through Israel.
Adam Immerwahr charts the future, and the identity, of Washington's Theater J.
A playwright from Alexandria, Va. makes her own global debut with "Dry Powder" at Manhattan's Public Theater
With Ronan, Whishaw and Okonedo, director Ivo van Hove gives a classic new vibrancy
Motti Lerner has found a powerful ally outside his native Israel in Washington's Ari Roth.
REVIEW || If you like your musicals sugary and sentimental, this is the one for you.
Motti Lerner's new play, "After the War," explores the depths of alienation in an Israeli family irrevocably divided by the country's near-perpetual state of war. But if the vague and unsett…
Reeling from his service as a soldier in the 1973 Yom Kippur War, Motti Lerner felt the need to express his deep misgivings about the conflict publicly. So he gathered 30 of his fellow stude…
NEW YORK -- The first time it struck me as pretty. The second, it just seemed kind of sappy."Bright Star," the twangy new musical by Steve Martin and Edie Brickell, has moved onto Broadway a…
NEW YORK -- Exuberance, thy musical name is "She Loves Me."The melodies of this 1963 show by Joe Masteroff, Jerry Bock and Sheldon Harnick sound as sweet and richly evocative as ever in dire…
Curling up with a good novel, permitting an author to close the door artfully on your world for a spell and open up theirs, gradually, to you " that's one of the pleasures of solitary, liter…
NEW YORK -- Self-consciousness seems a strange affliction for an actress. But Laura Benanti used to experience such a profound case of it at the end of a performance that curtain calls becam…
Lin-Manuel Miranda returned Monday to the room where it happened. And, at the behest of first lady Michelle Obama, he brought the entire cast of his mega-hit musical, "Hamilton," to that roo…
Although he has always been fond of this country's drama, Ivo van Hove " a European vying for the mantle of America's hottest stage director " never felt any affinity for one of our most rev…
NEW YORK -- It isn't only war and weather that leave devastation in their wakes. The aftermath of intimacy, too, can be a brutal, obliterating ordeal, especially if -- as David Harrower's sc…
NEW YORK -- The year is 1979, and a porn-stachioed sleaze named Tony (Roger Bart) is packing his rat trap of a floating casino with enough comedy material to fill a Zucker brothers mov…
The high point of director Ron Daniels's enrichingly nuanced "Othello" is one of the tragic hero's lowest. Jonno Roberts's coldly efficient Iago " a Shakespearean psychopath if there ever wa…
NEW YORK -- He talks a pretty good game, does Erie Smith, in Eugene O'Neill's "Hughie." As luck would have it, so does the actor who portrays him in the finely-etched revival of the 1942 …
