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Despite any raw aspects of McCraney's work, there is no denying his exceptional style and force.
In a cartoon published Tuesday on the op-ed page of the Los Angeles Times, Mamet played the labor dispute for laughs, appearing to lampoon Writers Guild of America strikers.
Aronov's swagger gives way to sweet, and he and Sciorra have some truly tender moments together. Unfortunately, the play's fever-dream finale is jumbled and ultimately unsatisfying.
Prepare to be startled. Maybe intrigued. Perhaps annoyed, too.
But you won't NOT have an opinion after seeing "The Receptionist," a potent little play Manhattan Theatre Club opened Tuesday at its off-Broadway Stage I.
"Doing a drama that is a musical is going to be a huge risk," Furness said. "If I'm going to fail, I want to fail spectacularly, and it seems like we did."
What's most interesting about "The Overwhelming" is that you are never quite sure who are the play's villains or heroes. Everyone seems to have a hand in allowing the madness to flourish.
Sing out Troy, Gabriella, Sharpay and Ryan. Even before "High School Musical" became the celluloid Holy Grail of entertainment for adolescent girls everywhere, the idea of a stage version wa…
Of course, you'll leave the theater humming those tunes. But you will also remember the remarkable performances of Mays and Danes in this spirited revival.
Treem's comedy offers no solutions to the inevitable tension between the sexes, but the off-Broadway Playwrights Horizons production, directed by Blair Brown, never quite catches fire as it …
There are several expeditions going on in "100 Saints You Should Know," Kate Fodor's promising new drama that has opened the fall season at off-Broadway's Playwrights Horizons.
Actors scurry all over the stage. But the movement, while theatrical, adds nothing to the play. But then, it's like the production itself - all surface, showy and, ultimately, unsatisfying.
Some of Britain's most distinguished Shakespearean actors have reopened the debate over whether William Shakespeare, a 16th century commoner raised in an illiterate household in Stratford-up…
PHILADELPHIA - Call it theater of the macabre: A jar containing a small piece of tissue from the body of John Wilkes Booth, President Abraham Lincoln's killer, will be on display when the mu…
The play, the first production in the Signature Theatre Company's season-long salute to Mee, has been directed by Landau with a fierceness that makes every one of its 85 minutes count.
Who knew you could find that many new laughs in "A Midsummer Night's Dream," but the mismatched romance and bucolic buffoonery in the Public Theater's Central Park production prove surprisin…
What have America's television watchers wrought?
The cast of Broadway's "Mary Poppins" is getting a practically perfect honor.
Opus 131 has been described as "the completely unfaltering rendition into music of what we can only call the mystic vision." Hollinger's "Opus" doesn't reach that awesome height, but it is a…
"Election Day" is plenty funny, but it never quite takes the laughs over the top. It's not the freshest political comedy ever produced. But it does offer a pol who will say and do anything, …
PARIS - French actor Michel Serrault, whose hit performance as a transvestite in the film and stage versions of "La cage aux folles" (The Birdcage) catapulted him to international stardom, h…
