Silly and foolish aren't necessarily the same thing, but the Aquila Theatre Company's revival of Oscar Wilde's "The Importance of Being Earnest" manages to be both at the same time.
"Aunt Dan and Lemon" by Wallace Shawn is one of the most peculiar plays of the last two decades. Infuriating. Entertaining. Funny but sad. And determined to provoke its audience.
It's a showy performance, full of flourish but little real feeling.
Neil LaBute is a master of the intimate argument, those private, often intense battles, usually between a man and a woman, that produce more than enough pain for both of the combatants. And …
Inviting the prime minister of Turkey to a play about the Armenian genocide of 1915-23 could be touchy.
But that didn't stop theater producer David Grillo from inviting Turkish leader Recep Tayyip Erdogan to last week's opening of "Beast on the Moon."
Ready to hear some theater conversation with the folks who work on Broadway, off-Broadway and beyond.
Great drama? No. A hot show? You bet.
"From Door to Door," a new play about three generations of middle-class Jewish women, is like plunging into a bowl of your grandma's chicken noodle soup.
Quotes from Chenoweth, Simon Russell Beale and Jed Bernstein.