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The narrative architecture of "Vanya""its languors, its longings"is assumed, even beside the point. In its essence, this distilled adaptation unfolds less as a conventional staging than as a…
There is, in "The Last Audition," something almost defiantly modest"a chamber piece of sorrow that refuses the grandiloquence of tragedy even as it circles one. The play, a solo vehicle of h…
Hayes proves wholly persuasive, gliding among a gallery of supporting figures (Hayes delineates 11 distinct characters with astonishing lucidity, his transitions so fluid they seem almost in…
Yet the production proves curiously reluctant to pursue the implications of its own provocations. The philosophers, rather than evolving into distinct and dynamically opposed sensibilities, …
New American Ensemble may be young, but this production announces a company of rare precision and ambition. Every element"the mulch underfoot, the bar at your shoulder, the dead tree overhea…
A SMALL SHOP WITH A BIG HEART A delightful, tender surprise arrives at the Ahmanson"and quietly wins you over Sometimes the most unassuming shows sneak up and steal your heart. Kim's Conveni…
Anthony Rapp in Kenny Finkle's "Touch" at The East Village Basement (Photo credit: Table 7 Strategies/Kevin Kulp) In Touch, a work of disarming modesty and unnerving emotional precision, a l…
BIG CAST, BIG LAUGHS, BIG HEART AÂ joyful Morgan-Wixson production proves this classic still delivers the goods Community theatre rarely aims this big"or lands this charmingly. The Morgan…
In the hands of Michael John LaChiusa (music, lyrics and book) and George C. Wolfe (book), the feral, syncopated verse of Joseph Moncure March's Prohibition-era poem is not so much adapted a…
In "Entangled:12 Scenes in a Circle K off the I-40 in New Mexico," the beguiling and philosophically mischievous collaboration between Mona Mansour and Emily Zemba, the American desert becom…
HOME IS WHERE THE HORROR IS A boarding house of quiet menace and killer detail Writer/director Marja-Lewis Ryan is back, and her latest show arrives at The Electric Lodge in Venice with a ki…
What begins as a satirical clash between corporate swagger and academic idealism gradually deepens into a more unsettling inquiry. The play's true subject, it turns out, is not merely the ar…
A BEAUTIFUL DOLL CV Rep's production is one bet you can't lose It's amazing. Were this masterpiece from Broadway's golden age an actual guy or doll, he or she would be scoring Social Securit…
The wait is finally over for fans of the dark, fantastical comedy as "Death Becomes Her" on Broadway officially makes its immortal entrance. The musical adaptation of the 1992 cult classic, …
If the show's point of view occasionally feels one-sided, that imbalance ultimately serves its chief purpose: entertainment. 'Body Count' may not function as a comprehensive treatise on cont…
CIVILITY CRUMBLES, BUT THE COMEDY NEVER BUILDS South Coast Rep's revival exposes how thin satire needs sharper direction to truly sting Melinda Page Hamilton and Kim Martin-Cotten The first …
STILL HERE, STILL ESSENTIAL The tour of Bill T. Jones's landmark dance comes to Royce Hall with undiminished force The first time I saw Still/Here, it was at BAM. It was 1994, the year of St…
Slater's performance is a revelation of synthesis. Known for his buoyant athleticism in Broadway's "SpongeBob SquarePants" and his chilling portrayal of the Balladeer and Lee Harvey Oswald i…
Actors Kerry Ipema and Natalie Rich, joined by the live Foley artist Kelly Robinson, proceed to conjure Spielberg's dinosaur epic. They marshal an arsenal of materials so defiantly homespun …
In Lauren Yee's exuberant and stealthily devastating new comedy, "Mother Russia," history arrives not with a bang but with an order of fast food. Two young men, perched at the lip of a new w…
In an era when content moves fluidly across mediums, the relationship between stage, screen, and page has never been more dynamic. Theatre productions become films, films inspire novels, and…
The premise"a radio broadcast"might seem theatrically inert, yet Rau ingeniously implicates the audience by issuing each spectator a set of headphones. We are not merely watching propaganda;…
To enter the performance space of Paul Pinto's "MANO A MANO" is to find oneself seated not before a proscenium, but around a giant Arthurian round table, a scenic choice that immediately dis…
Chang is an agile performer, and his quick shifts among characters recall the early solo work of urban shapeshifters who built entire neighborhoods out of voice and posture. Yet here the gal…
The opening gesture of Dante Alighieri's "Inferno""that immortal confession of midlife disorientation in which a wanderer finds himself astray from the "straight road" and deposited in a "da…
