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As the first production of Classic Stage Company's 50th anniversary season, John Doyle's new staging of William Shakespeare's As You Like It is a frustrating amalgam of beautiful visual imag…
Filial guilt may seem a slender thread on which to hang a whole evening. And it turns out, with The Treasurer, that it is. . . .
Mary Jane, a beautiful new play written by Amy Herzog and directed with naturalism by Anne Kauffman (A Life) opening tonight at New York Theatre Workshop, will only burnish Herzog's stature …
Some very good acting, a couple of emotionally touching speeches, and an evocative set are not enough to cover up the numerous plot holes and overall sudsy narrative of The Violin, a slow-pa…
In the end, though, Mr. Pinkham and his castmates are weighed down by an overstuffed story.
Forget Nathaniel Hawthorne, whose novel "The Scarlet Letter" is credited with being the inspiration for the pair of works by Suzan-Lori Parks being presented at the Pershing Square Signature…
You've heard, of course, of the comic teams of Abbott and Costello, and Laurel and Hardy.
History has not been kind to American playwright Clyde Fitch.
Sarah Ruhl, who's usually so eager to provoke and bend rules and tease her audience, has gone mostly naturalistic and presentational with her latest.
This one's a find.
Suzan-Lori Parks' dystopian play Fucking A, a work from 2000 opening tonight at the Pershing Square Signature Center, takes its inspiration from Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter but …
A rare photo among the plates in Harold Prince's Sense of Occasion features a smiling Richard Rodgers, Ethel Merman, and the director posing for an ultimately spiked TV Guide cover that was…
It is awfully difficult to pull off a satire about sexual assault without underplaying or overplaying your hand.
Truly, you haven't lived until you've heard a lusty French Charolais heifer mooningly mooing a rendition of "La Vie En Rose" while daydreaming about breeding with a "bull of excellent pedigr…
When it was first announced that there would be a show celebrating the Broadway career of Harold Prince, some people expressed the opinion that this did not sound like a good idea.
In Michael Moore's Broadway show, he makes the powerful point that a single person can effect tremendous change for the better in our world, and he gives several examples. . . .
How to categorize the Ensemble for the Romantic Century's new production, Van Gogh's Ear, which opened today at the Pershing Square Signature Center?
Have you seen the electoral map of New York City for the 2016 Presidential election?
One of the most winning casts in Seattle musical history, and an out of the ordinary, strong adaptation of a Jane Austen novel with sterling silver book, music and lyrics, combine to make Ta…
Now that Dolly is back where she belongs, on Broadway and assayed by Bette Midler, it seems fitting to honor Jerry Herman, the composer and lyricist responsible for the show's enduring appea…
It's too bad that the New York International Fringe Festival is on hiatus this year, because that would be a perfect venue for Stephen Kaplan's compelling and ambitious satire-with-a-heart, …
Would you risk your job to champion a controversial stance on behalf of someone you like and respect but don't fully agree with?
"Nostalgia" is not the first word that comes to mind when thinking about children's theater.
Bruce Norris's intriguing and darkly comic science fiction-inspired play, A Parallelogram, has been around for a while, ever since its debut at Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre in 2010.
To co-opt a line of lyric from Stephen Sondheim, "anything can happen in the woods."
