98 stories by "Richard Green"
This version, adapted by Giles Havergal and directed with outrageous truthfulness and straight-faced perjury by Emily Jones, is a brilliant psychological farce (in terms of its effect and im…
When you put up a "Sensitive, New-Age Guy" against a "Tough, No-Nonsense Guy," you don't always end up with a presidential campaign. Sometimes, you get a great comedy like Rounding Third, wh…
It's mostly a series of monologs, based on older sketches, with Stellie Siteman and Alan Knoll bravely carrying the banner of Mr. Rudnick into battle against the usual glare of stage-lights …
So, be warned. Maybe you'll take it too seriously, like the comic book guys; or maybe just dismiss it off-handedly, like my critic friends. Or maybe, like me, you grew up giggling at all the…
This is my new favorite farce. And I didn't even know it was a farce until I counted up all the doors on the set, with its three tiny dressing rooms.
This is a maddening play, and not in a good way, either.
Conversations with an Executioner, adapted by Philip Boehm, continues through April 29, 2012, at the Kranzberg Center's black box theater.
From the opening chords, which (of course) sound like some 1950s movie about teen rebels, we know we're in for a counter-cultural extravaganza.
Stylish and sly, Jean Genet's comedy of two maids features Brooke Edwards and Emily Baker writhing operatically under the excesses of their employer, as the plans for their revenge wobble ho…
You get a lot of good, clean fun, thanks to co-directors Justin Been and Gary F. Bell, and a delirious cast that delivers 110 percent.
In Juan Mayorga's bizarre fictionalized account, a German commandant struggles (with the precision of Seurat's own pointillism) to paint an idyllic, living picture of Jewish deportation in W…
First Run Theatre closes its ninth season of nurturing unrecognized playwrights with a pair of 90-minute crime stories by Richard LaViolette.
So, go see "The Seafarer," the grotesque, outstanding new show at West End Players Guild, then tell everyone you know. And find out who your real friends are.
It's a mixed bag, this story of one family's business and romance problems, solved by convict laborers at Christmas, 1910.
Somehow, with Christmas exploding in the stores all the way back around Halloween, it only seems right that Frank Capra's classic 1946 movie should be boiled down to a lively 75-minute on-st…
... look out, Mormons: Trey Parker's 1993 movie "Cannibal! The Musical" has been adapted for the stage, and it's finger-licking good.
... with actors Sam Hack and Archie Coleman, all the little dramas of old age become great monstrous windmills, challenging their wits and nobility; and all the real monsters are (ultimately…
If you were a fallen Norse deity, or some spirit condemned to walk this Earth, you could probably find your way right back to the realm of the gods by way of the Upstream Theatre.
Justin Been and Gary F. Bell's big new musical is a marvel of precision, charm, beauty and tenderness—terms you don't usually associate with the topic of "rock opera." But forty-two years …
Some great shows are remarkable for their spectacular staging; others for their astonishing stories. But in some rare shows, the glory is in the sheer amazement we feel from watching splendi…
Bizarre absurdism, the kind you used to get from Ionesco or Beckett, reaches horrifying new heights in the world premiere of David L. Williams' new two-act play.
The late Justice Potter Stewart famously said he didn't know what comprised hard-core pornography, but that he knew it when he saw it. And, yet, he might not be so sure when it comes to "Deb…
The story itself seems like the pleasantly fabricated offspring of its adventure-minded hero, Louis de Rougemont, who claims he left home as a young man and fell into many colorful adventure…
