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Apparently, director Evan Cabnet believes the difference between comedy and tragedy is that the former is played fast and...
We playwrights are always mentioned in the listings and reviews. This is not about us. We think the stage managers and sound and lighting and set and costume designers we work with are just …
The comedy winks at a particular instance of a dog being man's best friend -- but not, as Gurney writes it, a woman's best friend. What the prolific playwright has here is the study of one g…
"You really have to look at the whole picture and see whose story is being told, in terms of geography, gender, class, race. I also think a big problem is not doing work that's experim…
Reed Birney, Jayne Houdyshell, Cassie Beck, Sarah Steele and
Arian Moayed in The Humans. Photo: Joan Marcus
Stephen...
Michael Mayer's updating Giuseppe Verdi's Rigoletto in a more or less contemporary Las Vegas setting of Christine Jones's devising lends the histrionic drama an alluring air of 21st-century …
Broadway audiences clamoring for dance-happy musical comedy, with an emphasis on tap-tap-tap, need look no further than the Helen Hayes where Dames at Sea provides two hours-worth of shuffle…
Holland Taylor and Marylouise Burke in Ripcord. Photo: Joan Marcus
Put David Lindsay-Abaire, Holland Taylor,...
In a Trip of Love program note, creator-director-choreographer James Walski asserts that his expensive-looking...
The York Theatre Company, the determined, roll-up-your-sleeves-and-make-a-musical group in the basement of a church within the Citicorp Center, has rolled up their sleeves and -- with great …
Topher Payne sets Perfect Arrangement, directed by Michael Barakiva at the Duke, in 1950 Washington, D. C. when Commie baiting and routing out supposed deviants of any stripe were becoming f…
If you think you're about to hear anything critical of the two old pros James Earl Jones and Cicely Tyson in director...
An American theatergoer in London can always be sure to find an intelligent modern-day adaptation of a world drama classic or two. At present, both the National and the Almeida have success…
You realize that this is not junk-food theatre; this is keenly-contrived and impeccably-crafted comedy of high order.
When Joe DiPietro's Clever Little Lies gets going at the Westside Theatre, it almost immediately gives the impression that...
Imelda Staunton in Gypsy. Photo: Johan Persson
Ethel Merman. Angela Lansbury. Bernadette Peters. Patti LuPone. ...
Nicole Kidman in Photograph 51. Photo: Johan Persson
Rosalind Franklin (1920-1958) was a British crystallographer...
The cast of Martin McDonagh's Hangmen
Martin McDonagh--the British/Irish author of such mordantly...
The first act of Robert (Bootycandy) O'Hara's Barbecue consists of four scenes, two each in alternation, depicting a...
Even before William Shakespeare's so-called "problem play" Measure for Measure gets properly underway at the Globe, director Dominic Dromgoole has loosed on the audience what looks…
In the hospitality business, truly connecting with today's tech-savvy guest does not mean beating the OTAs at their own game. Rather, hospitality experts must crack the new code of consumer …
Of course, the season has already crowned one giant hit, Hamilton, that will inevitably define it. But there is still much to come.
The trouble with "Razzle Dazzle," Michael Riedel's new book about Broadway, is that from the first page--on which a...
Megan McGinness and Paul Alexander Nolan in Daddy Long Legs.
Photo: Jeremy Daniel
Playgoers might have trepidations...
LONDON--Though Samuel Foote is not remembered today and therefore another instance in the annals of the millions once famous and...
