12,965 results for "Drama Desk"
Drama training - in everything from circus skills to musical theatre - has never been more available. But are courses giving students what they need to survive in the real world?
A clunker of a Broadway show, "Mothers and Sons" asks us to endure the vacuous chit-chat of deeply unpleasant people. The worst part is, there isn't even a good reason...
It's not easy to pull off a comic fantasy, especially one dealing with such monumental subjects as love, death and dirt, but playwright Sarah Ruhl manages to artfully juggle big themes in "T…
Whether you respond to Shawn's 95-minute solo show, which the New Group has revived at off-Broadway's Acorn Theatre, will depend on your connection to the likable performer, whose genial man…
The Life Inside examines the impact of tragedy on a family
Modern Chinese drama has always had to compete with traditional opera for aud attention, but a new museum in Beijing hopes to record some of the contribution of "hua ju" (spoken drama) to Ch…
The Drama League, the nonprofit org that administers the 70-year-old Drama League Awards, has named Jano Herbosch its prexy.
Playwright's fairy-tale beginning proved prophetic
There is a dreamlike quality to Still's fluid, graceful staging. And like all potent dreams, her vision - and that includes her overseeing of those celestial musical voices - remains vivid l…
"The most singular, eccentric individual the Cold War ever birthed" has made a triumphant transfer to Broadway.
Iraqi group performs 'Window' on Baghdad street
The last time Keith Huff wrote a play, it moved to Broadway and starred Hugh Jackman and Daniel Craig. But Huff's follow-up to "A Steady Rain" will first be staged in Glencoe. Behind a books…
Witnessing Jack Canfora's "Poetic License," one becomes excited by the possibility that a major hit could be unfolding.
One need not have seen a single frame of the film (called "The Celebration" in this country) to appreciate the engrossing, aching, classic-Greek inevitability of the family dynamics.
Yet it is the demanding physicality in the show that counts. That movement celebrates an intense kind of discipline that borders on the spiritual and proves to be surprisingly sturdy Broadwa…
The show may not always be joyous, but it shouldn't be funereal, which is what occasionally comes across in this production.
The Belarus Free Theatre, which made a lauded New York debut with Being Harold Pinter as part of the Public Theater's Under the Radar Festival, will bring its politically charged work to Chi…
A lushly decorated set combined with the emotionally complex music of Frederic Chopin create an atmosphere of high drama on the American Repertory Theatre stage. So it's a disappointment whe…
