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There is no doubt that the big draw for audiences at Party Face, Isobel Mahon's wobbly comic drama opening tonight at City Center Stage II, is the headline presence of Hayley Mills among the…
As social commentary and cultural exposé, The Thing with Feathers, Scott Organ's play receiving its world premiere by the Barrow Group, is timely and important.
The more you like being in a crowded teachers' lounge in the middle of Ohio, the more you'll like Miles for Mary.
The year 1912 was a bad one for certain trans-Atlantic ship passengers"and, based on what happens in the first scene of Stanley Houghton's 1912 play Hindle Wakes, currently on view in a rare…
If you are ever in need of a psychopomp, someone to guide you on your journey to the afterlife, I recommend you consider hiring Lydia.
Fans of playwright Neil LaBute, a specialist in works about men and women behaving badly within the intersection of sex and power (among them, Fat Pig, reasons to be pretty, and All The Ways…
I love listening to a good story.
It's always a red flag when the first page inside your theatre program is a note from the director explaining the play you're about to see.
Robert O'Hara's Mankind, now playing at Playwrights Horizons, begins with a bang.
The Ensemble for the Romantic Century is an exceptionally ambitious company, bent on creating theatrical works that combine live performances of classical music, dance, acting, artistic imag…
Harry Houdini was not only a gifted stage magician and escape artist; he was a master showman who knew how to pull off attention-grabbing stunts that ensured both a lucrative career while he…
"Musick has charms to sooth a savage breast," wrote William Congreve in 1697. That aphorism is put to the test in Claire van Kampen's Farinelli and the King, opening tonight at the Belasco T…
The Fiasco Theater's rollicking, new production of Twelfth Night, or What You Will is the perfect way to spend a cold, winter night.
The Children, Lucy Kirkwood's all too believable play about the aftermath of a nuclear accident, is much more than a cautionary dystopian tale.
Pulitzer-nominee Rajiv Joseph's new play at The Atlantic, Describe the Night, is a sweeping, political potboiler spanning 90 years of history and intertwining the lives of seven characters o…
There will undoubtedly be people who enjoy and connect with Hundred Days, an eclectic "concert musical" written by and starring real-life married couple Abigail and Shaun Bengson currently o…
If nautical nonsense be something you wish, you can either (a) drop on the deck and flop like a fish, or (b) head on out to the Palace Theatre where mayhem reigns supreme with the opening of…
Michael Arden showed us all what it looks like to breathe new life into a revived musical when he brought Spring Awakening back to Broadway in 2015 just six years after its original and high…
If you are going to push the envelope in theater, you really ought to make sure there is enough inside that envelope that makes it worth pushing.
"In the land of sinners, the whore is Queen," observes an experienced political hand in Beau Willimon's The Parisian Woman, an old-fashioned melodrama about the interplay of sex, power, and …
Somewhere around the middle of the supremely silly and not-entirely comprehensible comedy Meteor Shower, opening tonight at the Booth Theatre, one of the show's four characters whips out a p…
Should someone ask where you were when you first heard the shocking news "on the day of," what pops immediately into your head?
Buffalo Bill's Wild West shows were huge circus-like extravaganzas and ostentatious spectacles of American exceptionalism.
Even before the first guest has arrived and the monkfish stew is ready to be served, the audience watching Muswell Hill, Torbin Betts's 2012 British play receiving its New York premiere, can…
After seeing Harry Clarke, the mesmerizing and frequently creepy new play by David Cale at The Vineyard, you'll start making a list of superlatives in your head to describe the tour de force…
