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The faces in Lynn Nottage's powerful new drama mask the unspeakable violence these women have survived. One that still stays with me belongs to a willowy girl named Sophie, whose visage has …
The play works as long as it's milking Ruhl's one-liners for laughs. It gets into dubious territory in the second act, when the tone becomes more serious and characters change in implausible…
If Minsky's, the new musical by composer Charles Strouse, aspires to anything, it's to be a show for these desperate times. How else to explain its constant—almost winking—references to the dire financial situation facing the eponymous burlesque house that stands at the center of this defiantly toe-tapping show?
There are certainly laughs to be had at "Enjoy." It's just not as enjoyable as it could be. Rating: **.
Finally, though, the kernel is the composer: The song may be you, but the show, gladsomely, is Kern.
As satire, "You're Welcome, America" is toothless. What comes across as pointed and funny in 90 seconds on "Saturday Night Live" flops as a Bush-era postmortem. Ferrell ends the show by givi…
With its cramped, L-shaped auditorium, tiny stage lacking technical resources and modest finances, the Irish Repertory Theatre is in no position to do justice to Brian Friel's "Aristocrats."
Under Carl Andress's confident ringmaster direction, the excesses, fortunately and endearingly, are reserved for the actors.
Broadway's two dozen dark theaters won't stay empty for long.
Mary-Louise Parker, an actress always worth watching, stars in the latest Broadway revival of "Hedda Gabler." The Roundabout Theatre Company production marks the fourth major staging in rece…
So why is "The American Plan" revived when far more deserving plays are not? Because preciosity all too easily passes for perception and weirdness is readily mistaken for originality.
