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Not all solo shows are created equal, and Lemon Andersen's autobiographical County of Kings stands apart for many reasons.
There's prodigious intelligence and skill on display. It's just that Smith once seemed to promise more.
Sam Gold's excellent production for Playwrights Horizons honors the painstaking naturalism of the script, greatly abetted by David Zinn's perfect rehearsal-room set and an exceptional cast o…
A lucid and entertaining reading of an essential Irish classic.
Mamet is too strong a writer for his jagged, percussive melodies to be completely drowned out by poor orchestration.
Nice-guy everyman Bill Pullman educates us in David Mamet's Oleanna.
Not so very long ago, Roundabout Theatre Company suffered from a recurrent case of Celebrity Fornication Disorder, a wasting condition that leads theatrical producers to cast famous or semif…
This September (pending all sorts of things), Van Hove will be at New York Theater Workshop directing...drumroll...Lillian Hellman's juicy The Little Foxes, starring Elizabeth Marvel.
Bye Bye Birdie; hello, turkey.
Working in an interview-sifting, Eve Ensler vein, Nora and Delia Ephron have noted that if you ask a woman about her outfit, her explanation soon slices past the sweater to the bone.
This is the sort of unforced, unpretentious slice-of-life play that critics like me are bound to call "folksy," with an aftertaste of condescension.
On the Lear scale, the play owes more to Norman than King.
This epitome of "event theater"--which in terms of writing is no event at all--raises a bigger question: Can producers not exploit brute celebritude for greater good?
Fisher can be dirty and delightful (despite her single-rhythm delivery), and taken in smaller doses, wryly hilarious. After a while, though, her cigarette-roughened rasp seems to be conceali…
Panych's quirky North-of-the-Border sensibility and knack for depicting lonely characters with humor and heart keep the production's candle burning.
While the larger structures are depressingly predictable, we can distract ourselves with the pleasures of performance.
It isn't all just giddy Gallic fun; Comme Toujours proves moving in rather unexpected places.
The main characters, the Cavendish family, are a Barrymore-or-less clan of self-dramatizing master thespians, so Kaufman and Ferber get to have it both ways: These people can be at once outr…
