84 stories by "SYLVIANE GOLD"
David Robson's 80-minute drama depicts a testosterone-charged encounter between two men in a hotel room; but the question is pertinent because the play was inspired by a 2010 obituary.
In his play at the Long Wharf Theater's Stage II, Joshua Harmon is content to wring laughs from the manifestly unfunny situation.
Mark St. Germain's "Dancing Lessons," in Hartford, is a blend of comedy, romance and homily on understanding autism.
"Freud's Last Session," a play by Mark St. Germain, is at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls through Nov. 27.
"Irving Berlin's Holiday Inn" is a reworking of the 1942 movie musical for the stage by Gordon Greenberg and Chad Hodge, who have woven in additional tunes by Berlin.
Tom Stoppard's masterpiece offers piquant ruminations on love, time and mathematics.
The opening production of Hartford Stage's new season, "Ether Dome," is about the 19th-century physicians, frauds and cranks who pioneered surgical anesthesia.
In Stony Point in Rockland County, "Playing the Assassin" takes a good, solid shot at professional football while telling a gripping story.
"Woody Sez: The Life and Music of Woody Guthrie" in Hartford combines songs, incidents and anecdotes to create a complete Guthrie experience.
"The Fabulous Lipitones," a song-stuffed comedy, is having its New York debut at the Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point in Rockland County.
The Goodspeed Opera House's triumphant production of "Fiddler on the Roof" in East Haddam manages to be both reverent and utterly fresh.
"Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike," which is at Hartford Stage, is a comic mash-up of Chekhovian themes and characters, with nods to Aeschylus, Shakespeare, Beckett and Walt Disney.
In Evan Smith's comedy "The Savannah Disputation," produced by the Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point, Rockland County, a surprise visitor raises uncomfortable questions of religious faith.
In "Damn Yankees, the Red Sox Version," a reboot in East Haddam of a Tony-winning musical, a baseball fan makes a deal with the devil.
"West Side Story" has great meaning for the writer, and the characters, of "Somewhere," now at Hartford Stage.
Noël Coward weighed ethical and emotional ramifications of his closeted existence in what he called his most serious play.
Meg Miroshnik's new play peers into the history and sociology of the former Soviet Union through the lens of czarist folklore.
In Heidi Schreck's new play, at Long Wharf Theater Stage II, mismatched colleagues try to find their way through the 2008 financial crisis.
'The Most Happy Fella,' a story about a farmer captivated by a young waitress, closes the 50th anniversary season of Goodspeed Musicals.
"Owners," a 1972 play by Caryl Churchill at the Yale Repertory Theater, taps the ethos of "Do what you want. Get what you can."
In Jeffrey Hatcher's semi-autobiographical comedy "Mrs. Mannerly," he recalls the deportment lessons absorbed in 1967 by his pudgy, going-on-10-year-old self.
A Hartford Stage production of the tragedy is light on props, relying on the power of the play itself to connect with the audience.
"La Dispute," an entertaining 70-minute comedy now at Hartford Stage, asks: Who committed the first infidelity, mankind or womankind?
"Time Stands Still," the Tony-nominated play by Donald Margulies about a wounded war photographer, deliberately leaves some disturbing questions about journalism unanswered. …
At Penguin Rep Theater, "Drop Dead Perfect" playfully gives nods to 1950s television, pulp novels, Hitchcock and more.
