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Now having its American premiere in repertory with "Confusions," one of Ayckbourn's earliest plays, with the same actors in both, the production which is directed by the author is from the S…
Aside from the obvious misogyny of Shakespeare's comedy for modern audiences, there is the problem of the heroine's unpalatable final speech in which she berates women for not being more sub…
Adam Rapp's plays are often about loners and people outside of mainstream society. "The Purple Lights of Joppa Illinois" now at Atlantic Stage 2 in a production directed by the author falls …
"Now I Ask You" turns out to be comedy of pretentious New York bohemians in 1916, while "Recklessness" is a Strindbergian psychological revenge play. While both have hints of the more famous…
Although "Hamilton" had been nominated for 16 awards in 13 categories, it failed to break the record of Mel Brooks' "The Producers" which remains the all-time winner with a total of 12. Hami…
'Universal Robots" uses historic characters like journalist and playwright Capek and President Masaryk of Czechoslovakia, characters taken from Capek's play like Rossum, Helena and Radius, a…
Maggie Lacey as Nora Helmer and John Douglas Thompson as Torvald Helmer in a scene from "A Doll's House" (Photo credit: Gerry Goodstein) Was Swedish playwright August Strindberg a misogynist…
This is heady theater and demands concentration. However, the excellent cast of four made of Geneva Carr (Theatre World Award winner for "Hand to God"), Charlie Cox (Netflick's" Daredevil"),…
As with many CSC productions, the modern dress costumes (here designed by Ann Hould-Ward) are entirely in black and white. A small handful of props are used (a tin of buttons, an onion) but …
British film star Rupert Everett gives a bravura performance as playwright and author Oscar Wilde in the Chichester Festival Theater revival of "The Judas Kiss" by David Hare now at the BAM …
Completing New York Gilbert & Sullivan Players' 40th Season was a rare revival of 1884 "Princess Ida," the team's eighth operetta and the only one in which the dialogue is in blank vers…
The production of "Indecent" now on the stage of the Vineyard is remarkable on many levels, not the least which is how engrossing it is considering the events are all historical record and t…
Stylish and stylized, the stage design includes Es Devlin's white box of a set which transforms instantaneously into apartments, offices, restaurants, discos, a health club, a locker room, a…
On the ferry, audience members listen to a previously downloaded soundscape which includes a voice-over by Katie (played by Emma Meltzer) who has always seen ghosts and ends up investigating…
The problem with the new show with a libretto by first timers Claudia Shear and Tim Federle now at the Broadhurst Theatre is that it is all so bland - which is not true of the novel which ha…
Staged by director/choreographer Doug Varone, "Dido and Aeneas" was amusingly presented in modern dress with Varone's dancers playing the ensemble in both operas and pantomiming unseen props…
Red Bull Theater which has specialized in Elizabethan and Jacobean tragedies has moved on to the 18th century with Marc Vietor's exquisite and stylish revival of "The School for Scandal," Ri…
Shanahan's adaptation has a great many delicious one-liners and double-entendres ("I don't go out for mutton when I can have filet mignon at home;" "Keep referring to me as a plate of food a…
While many of the scenes are right on target, others seem too metaphoric and anarchic to make much impression, while others take on too many targets to make their point. The best ones deal w…
You might wonder why Morag, Fiona's mother, in Sharman Macdonald's groundbreaking Scottish play, "When I Was a Girl I Used to Scream and Shout," is so repressive about sex. What the program …
The Royal Shakespeare Company's "King and Country: Shakespeare's Great Cycle of Kings" is a magnificent achievement and a fitting tribute in this 400th anniversary of the bard's death. Not o…
Van Hove sets his version in a modern classroom. When the curtain goes up we first see the girls who will later accuse various people in Salem, Massachusetts, of having bewitched them, seate…
Florian Zeller is the most famous French playwright you probably never heard of. He won France's highest theatrical honor, the Moliere Award, in 2011 for his play, "The Mother," and the Moli…
The problem with the staging begins from the outset. Daniels' Ray, tense and rigid, pushes demanding, triumphant Una into a corporate break room. He is upset to see her, and she is all confi…
Tarell Alvin McCraney's "Head of Passes" is an advance over his earlier work seen in New York ("The Brother/Sister Plays," "Wig Out," "Choir Boy") in its attempt to take on bigger themes and…
