98 stories by "Richard Green"
Stripped way down and very satisfyingly funny, this tale of two pairs of twin brothers features a breathless Ben Watts in all his frantic glory, as a badly used servant (two, in fact)—and …
Based on the stories of the Tuskegee Airmen, its brash, likable pilots benefit from the modern technical wizardry of the stage (clever use of projection screens) while its somewhat predictab…
Well, of course, Evil Dead: The Musical is not great theatre. But it is a great time, full of outrageous, anguished performances and lots and lots of ridiculously inventive moments—and fun…
... you carry the dread of it with you after the show, all the way to bedtime. Scott Miller: musical theater director and master of suspense. Who knew?
There are still a few big Halloween shows set to open this month, but this is certain to be the scariest of the bunch.
Theatergoers expect big relationship comedy from Simon, comedy that plays out in "the long game"—not the hit-and-run, ambiguous Russian format we see here, with dour twist-endings.
I went into this show thinking the biggest shock would be the casting of a black actor (Nathan Lee Graham) as Kander & Ebb's "Emcee," who gleefully guides us down a rabbit hole and into the …
Ms. Brumley as Eliza is the true joy and sorrow of the piece, lifted (as everyone knows) from selling flowers on the street to passing as a duchess at an embassy ball.
Lavonne Byers is wonderfully dim and needy and lascivious as Kath, presented with the opportunity to take in a handsome young lodger (the playful and mysterious Paul Cereghino).
The overall effect in this local premiere is one of great love and beauty and playfulness, carefully braided together with the worst ugliness of the human soul.
Here's an excellent production of a dark comedy, but one that also left the opening night audience gasping in astonishment again and again: at the outrageous (and hilarious) relationships of…
An outstanding production of Cormac McCarthy's 90-minute play marks the arrival of a new theater group in town. And its Sunset Limited is full of the kind of smarts and self-possession a lot…
I still find it hard to wrap my head around the fact that Mr. Callahan can be both utterly obnoxious and completely charming all at the same time. But yes he can, and yes he is.
[T]he whole thing is a very nice surprise, if you're like me and thought you already knew everything you really needed to know about William Shakespeare.
It may be the end of the world, but there's a delightful sense of reassurance from the minute the show starts, in this Ashman and Menken pop classic, based on a Roger Corman B-movie from 196…
... this time, I am only filled with admiration and delight, as Jacqueline Petroccia essays the role of Patsy Cline, the great country & western singer.
... an excellent production, filled with humor and fine performances—and an exceptionally lithe and delightful turn by Sarajane Alverson as the wife of a wealthy art dealer in Manhattan.
Hilarious and wise Zachary Allen Farmer stars as the stoic Charles Bukowski (1920-1994), the nihilist writer who's the focus of this riotous dark mess, and directed by the too-young-to-be-ve…
The nice thing is that the invisible culture of, well, culture itself, is laid bare, and turned on its head in this comedy, as an eager young student proceeds to have his way with all that E…
Jerry Vogel, as virtually every principle in the Trojan War, makes it very clear what real vengeance, and real violence, and real guts and glory and remorse are all about in An Iliad, the ps…
Some of the most interesting performers in town are pressed into the service of Arnold Weinstein and Hankus Netsy's musical version of Isaac Bashevis Singer's play
When "the good old days" become a religion all their own, can the eager rebellion of modern minds be very far behind?
A hard-boiled style, bitter as the smell of gunpowder, is merely the delicious disguise this genuine thriller wears—and you'll be surprised how the laughs change about midway through: no m…
It's spring, the time of year when a young man's fancy turns to thoughts of maniacal (but entertaining) lust for pain and degradation.
Kimi Short walks a very fine line here, in a splendid performance as a woman who can't let go of the past, even though it threatens to destroy her marriage, her family, and her mind.
