The contemporary political figure with whom Abraham Lincoln resonates in the stripped down, one-act version of Robert Sherwood's 1938 drama "Abe Lincoln in Illinois" is a surprising one.
Slickly entertaining, "Play It Cool" is stuffed with some 20 solid songs replicating the sound and sass of jazz-infused pop from the 1940s and early '50s, from moody ballads to bebop syncopa…
"To Paint the Earth" is a worthy, serious attempt that has not yet come together. Its authors have taken on a grand but overwhelming challenge.
If you stripped "Idaho!" of all of its doo-doo-caca vulgarity and stilted song cues, it wouldn't last half an hour.
Good intentions do not necessarily make good drama. The estimable Culture Project's "In Conflict" oozes sincerity and commitment, but its dozen-plus interviews with troops returning from Ira…
Irish playwright Liam Heylin's "Love, Peace & Robbery" offers an engrossing 90-minute tour of the seamier side of the city of Cork.
Playwright Elizabeth Diggs treads familiar ground in her family drama , but she populates her play with well-drawn characters and writes about them with palpable sympathy.
With all the sugary sweetness and unchallenging familiarity of a holiday movie, "The Jerusalem Syndrome" invites us to believe that miracles can happen to anyone.
According to all reports, in the summer of 1816 the Swiss lakeside Villa Diodati was awash with turbulent romance and creativity. That heady atmosphere is intermittently captured in this New…
How wrong-headed it would be for this brooding, marvelous play and this revival's gifted lead actors to be viewed on anything but their own well-deserved terms.
Adrian Bailey, an actor working in The Little Mermaid who was severely injured May 10 when he fell through a trap door of a boat suspended more than 30 feet above the stage, is suing Disney, the show's primary producer, as well as prop and set manufacturers.
Perhaps it would have been better if the performers of Jazz Tap Ensemble had been less thoroughly observant and skillful in their mimicry of such dancers as Bill "Bojangles" Robinson, the Ni…
Tim Firth's dark-hued comedy is neither as black nor as funny as it would like to be.
As Desi Arnaz might say, and Ricky Ricardo surely would say, "'Splain me somethin'." How do you take a dynamite cabaret act and turn it into a bio musical? Surely not this way.
Advertised as "suitable for all ages," the madcap, hip-hop dance and clowning show "Break Out" is probably best appreciated by those with very young intellects. While the dancing is first-ra…
This well-sung but inconsequential musical takes its title and story arc from a forgotten 1934 exploitation film. Something darker and more interesting might have been made from this materia…
Dance is not so good at conveying detailed plot information, and therein lies the problem with "Wild About Harry."
Barb Jungr won't rest until she's gotten deeper into the material than anyone yet has - fathoms and fathoms deeper. She is nonpareil.
Dane Vannatter may deliver his tunes with his hands neatly clasped before him or even behind him, but he has no trouble infusing quiet emotion into this salute to Tony Bennett.
Efficiently directed by cabaret veteran Erv Raible, "Lilli Marlene" strives to transcend its essential structure as a classy club act, achieving a good degree of success.
White Horse Theatre Company is to be commended for mounting Tennessee Williams' rarely seen 1972 tone poem. Unfortunately, director Cyndy A. Marion and her cast approach the material with to…
Just about every potential emotional, religious, and legal entanglement that could arise from alternative means of reproduction is dealt with gingerly in Carl Djerassi's lively comedy-drama.
Over the years there has been no shortage of plays, books, and other works about Shakespeare, but nothing quite like this. Here you'll find no guessing about who existed or wrote what; this …
J.B. Priestley's little-seen play proves to be a good yarn with meaty roles and is performed by Mint Theater Company with élan, despite the unsatisfying ending.
The profound wonder of good is more powerful and inspiring than the mystery of evil in "Irena's Vow," a new play by Dan Gordon starring Tovah Feldshuh, who holds the audience captive from he…