219 stories from The Faster Times
The main character of "The Whale" is 600 pounds, but one of the many pleasures of this funny and affecting new play by Samuel D. Hunter, being given a splendid production with a universally …
At the beginning of "The Heiress," the heartbreaking story of an abandoned love, Jessica Chastain descends the staircase of a sumptuous mansion in a dazzling red dress and a glorious smile "…
Within the first minutes of the Transport Group Theatre Company's "House for Sale," billed as the first work by Jonathan Franzen (Freedom, The Corrections) to be adapted for the stage, I …
Near the end of the latest Broadway revival of Cyrano de Bergerac, much to my surprise, the Les Miz Rule kicked in. If a Broadway show shines bright lights directly in your face, features st…
"You're all flops," Martha says drunkenly to her guest in "Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf?" the first full-length play by Edward Albee, which has proven once again to be the opposite of a fl…
There were reasons to have faith in "Grace," a play about the downside of faith and the mystery of grace. Its stellar four-member cast includes Paul Rudd and Ed Asner, two performers w…
A day before the opening on Broadway of "An Enemy of the People," which is a play about the efforts to silence a difficult man, Wikileaks founder Julian Assange lashed out at Obama in a vide…
Julia Roberts made her Broadway debut in "Three Days of Rain," Daniel Craig in "A Steady Rain," and now Jake Gyllenhaal is making his U.S. stage debut in a play that begins in a steady downp…
It is hard to know who to blame for the horribly wrong turn taken in Job, the Flea Theater's initially promising stage adaptation of the Biblical Book of Job, the text that long has offered …
Halfway through "Detroit," Lisa D'Amour's funny, dark and timely new play with a pitch-perfect cast that includes David Schwimmer and Amy Ryan, a character named  Sharon  explains that…
Anyone listening to Jason Robert Brown perform his songs at Below 54 realizes two things right away: He's as deserving as any other composer-lyricist of his generation to be called Mr. Broad…
Rob McClure as Charlie Chaplin walks a tightrope, plays the violin, roller skates with a blindfold on, does backflips into a handstand, Â and " most dexterous of all " carries…
Trey Parker and Matt Stone of the "Book of Morons" sing "We believe that musicals should be disgusting." Two competing Marilyn Monroes belt "Let Me Be Subpar" A bloated Matthew Broderick woo…
Roscoe, the only male character in Sam Shepard's new, enigmatic play "Heartless," fondly recalls "my junkie days " Avenue D, 14th Street, Dunkin' Donuts, cops, transvestite fist fights, hook…
You can look at the Broadway 2012-2013 season in terms of the movie stars that will be on the stage: Al Pacino and Katie Holmes and Debra Winger — or how about Paul Rudd, Michael Shann…
Those of us smitten two years ago by "The Orphan's Home Cycle," the Signature Theater Company's epic production of nine of Horton Foote's plays taking place in a small Texas town he called H…
Former Congressman Anthony Weiner may wish to reconsider his reported plans to stage a political comeback, thanks to "Tail!Spin!" which eviscerates him and three other politicians at the cen…
"Shakespeare and Sondheim in the Park," it says on the new logo used in posters and programs and t-shirts for the Delacorte Theater's 50th season, and it is a slogan one can happily embrace …
The story behind "Bullet for Adolf," an aimless comedy co-written and directed by Woody Harrelson that has now opened at New World Stages, surely helps explain why the actor decided in his 5…
"FDR was a cheerleader….Madonna was a cheerleader…Michael Jordan," sing the cast of "Bring It On," a musical based on a movie about two competing high school cheerleading squads, adapted…
"He was young, abstract, and therefore cruel," Dostoevsky writes of a character in Crime and Punishment. "Some things are not forgivable: Deliberate cruelty is not forgivable," Blanche says …
The Central Park production of “As You Like It,” starring the luminous cross-dressing Lily Rabe, astonishing double dukes Andre Braugher, outrageous jester Oliver Platt, is not t…
What many theatergoers know and don't love about "Harvey" is that this comedy about a 6'3 1/2" invisible rabbit won the Pulitzer Prize for Drama in 1945, beating out Tennessee Williams' "The…
When Annie Baker, playwright of the exquisite “Circle Mirror Transformation” and her frequent collaborator, super-star director Sam Gold (“Seminar,” “Look Back …
People are talking about vaginas these days. And the associate artistic director of the Performance Network Theatre in Michigan took steps to protect them.
