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Two delicious and hilarious productions of Much Ado About Nothing are currently playing in London: one at the Globe, where "original practices" rule, and one on the West End, where high prof…
Two delicious and hilarious productions of Much Ado About Nothing are currently playing in London: one at the Globe, where "original practices" rule, and one on the West End, where high prof…
The wicked humor of Morris Panych's Vigil comes mostly at the expense of older audiences. That's bad news for cutting-edge theater in Philadelphia.
The Walnut's new production of Miss Saigon reaffirms the quality of its authors' work when they were at their short-lived peak. This play is more compact and focused than Les Miz, and more n…
My Way is as much of a tribute to Frank Sinatra's crowd and its ambience as it is to Old Blue Eyes himself. If you relish those folks and those times, here's a chance to renew old acquaintan…
Tony (Angels in America) Kushner has done it again with a rich, nourishing stew that clocks in at just less than four hours. Unlike other family dramas Kushner's revolves around serious, int…
Harry Potter can't conjure up a nom; drag is a plus; and eight more thoughts on prelude to Broadway's big night
In comedy, who's more essential" the writers, or the performers? Our Show of Shows leaves little doubt as to the answer.
It's hard to believe that a quarter century has passed since the first performance of Larry Kramer's The Normal Heart, a searing, rage-filled cri de coeur from the front lines of the early b…
It is almost eerily fitting that Baby It's You should be playing at the Broadhurst Theatre. That places it opposite Rock of Ages " which, like Baby It's You is a jukebox musical " and next t…
In Lydia, Octavio Solis captures the mixture of poetry, magic and dysfunction that characterize Hispanic-American families. But he also borrows heavily from America's most celebrated Anglo p…
Gusts of national (or is it existential?) pride, fury, despair, and compassion blow through Jez Butterworth's galvanizing drama Jerusalem, imported to Broadway from London's Royal Court Thea…
There is something initially compelling about husky-voiced former sexpot Kathleen Turner playing a Catholic nun in Matthew Lombardo's High.
Playwright Rogelio Martinez has an intriguing idea here, but it's still a work in progress.
Sharr White's The Other Place by is a terrifying play, illuminated by an astonishing performance by Laurie Metcalf as a middle-aged scientist struggling with dementia.
Stephen Adly Guirgis knows street talk and can write dialogue of astonishingly funny mad-dog ferocity. But somebody has to speak that dialogue onstage, and Chris Rock, the crass standup come…
Andrew Bovell's Speaking in Tongues is based on the dubious premise that marital infidelity is the end of the world. And from where I was sitting, I got a stiff neck, to boot.
Sebastian Barry is the finest Irish playwright of his generation, and in The Pride of Parnell Street he recreates the Dublin of the 1990s with the most economical of means: two characters, o…
In The 39 Steps, as in most Walnut Street Theatre productions, art never strays too far from public taste" for which let us be grateful.
