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Philip, the title character in Christopher Hampton's The Philanthropist, is enamored of words, words, words and more words. They are the downfall of this professor of philology, and, come to think of it, the problem with the Roundabout Theatre Company's sleepy revival of this English comedy, which opened Sunday at its American Airlines Theatre.
When Alex Harvey read Michael Pollan's "The Botany of Desire," which looks at the relationship between humans and four types of domesticated plants, he envisioned a musical.
As Rando, who scored so well directing "Urinetown," turns up the madcap heat, "Rich" seems to be trying to pummel us with comedy.
The febrile passions slip into forced sentiment at times, particularly in an awkwardly appended finale. But most of "Spring" bursts with an energy that makes Frank Wedekind's strange 1891 dr…
It isn't just the offbeat insights into performing Shakespeare that make Roger Rees' "What You Will" an absolute delight.
Gaynor has yet to see the New York show. When I express surprise that no one thought to invite her to the opening, she said, "Why should they?" It's an answer that only someone who's been in…
Dominic Cooper has a short resume in theater and film but it is nonetheless impressive, and with his brooding good looks, he just may be the next British heartthrob to make it big in United …
If book writer Jeff Whitty gets his way, the show will have its pre-Broadway tryout here. "That's absolutely my plan," he said by phone from New York. "The only place to open is San Francisc…
About the best that can be said for the "Widow" that opened Sunday at Post Street Theatre is that it isn't the train wreck it's widely reported to have been when it premiered in Atlanta in N…
Jeff Yang catches up with playwright David Henry Hwang, whose latest work, "Yellow Face," is an uncompromising and unexpectedly personal wrestle with the thorny issues of race, culture and A…
