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Attending an evening of short plays is rather like opening Forrest Gump's famous box of chocolate; you never know what you're going to get.
Attention all Tom Stoppard fans! Rising out of the theatrical mist comes an engaging, new staging of Arcadia, Stoppard's time-traveling meditation on art, science and love courtesy of PTP/NY…
For their 31st repertory season, and their 11th consecutive season in New York City, it should come as no surprise PTP/NYC (Potomac Theatre Project) has included a play by iconoclastic, Brit…
Sherlock Holmes hasn't had an easy time of it on the musical stage.
The 19 talented actors, singers, and musicians who gather onstage at the Pershing Square Signature Center's Linney Theatre kick up such a rip-roaring, rafter-shaking rumpus, they could wake …
Black lives matter very much to playwright Dominique Morisseau, not just in terms of surviving the mean streets of America, but, far more deeply, with respect to the quality of lives relentl…
Chris Harcum's Martin Denton, Martin Denton is to indie theatre what James Lapine's Act One was to Broadway; an enchanting tale of how one man's deep love for the artform changed the landsca…
Canadian playwright Vern Thiessen's adaptation of Of Human Bondage, W. Somerset Maugham's sprawling 1915 coming-of-age novel, may accentuate the melodramatic nature of the plot, but the acti…
As an overlooked piece of theatre history, Victoria Benedictsson's semi-autobiographical The Enchantment, currently receiving its US premiere in a production by Ducdame Ensemble, is a fascin…
As things stand in the U. S. right now, the primary focus on immigrants seems to be on keeping them out of the country altogether.
Girl Friday Productions must be congratulated on raising a little-known play, heralded in its day, and giving it a mounting with a large and talented cast and design team. There is much to a…
The question of why shows are revived doesn't always seem to be at the center of the conversation when companies bring back productions that were once praised.
Dark comedies don't get much darker that Scott McPherson's funny, sad, beautiful play Marvin's Room, about a caregiver who contracts a serious illness herself.
As for performances, Haj has made great choices in casting Randy Harrison as George and Erin Mackey as Dot/Marie.
Now that I had such a thoroughly good time at Might as Well Be Dead, I will be on the lookout for return productions of The Red Box (psst, it's scheduled to be done by Phipps Center for the …
Meghan Kennedy's immigrant family drama Napoli, Brooklyn, opening tonight at the Roundabout's Laura Pels Theatre, contains a number of emotionally-charged and dramatically explosive moments …
Clara Breedlove's backyard, the setting of Horton Foote's The Traveling Lady, which is currently playing at the Cherry Lane Theatre in Greenwich Village, seems to be the perfect place to sit…
There have been several attempts at creating musical adaptations of Henry Fielding's The History of Tom Jones, a Foundling, the scandalous British novel first published in 1749, and the basi…
The dystopia depicted by George Orwell (real name, Eric Arthur Blair) in his chillingly prescient novel 1984 has not come true in all of its nightmarish particulars, at least not to the…
The sad outweighs the funny in Fulfillment Center, at City Center Stage II at Manhattan Theatre Club, but my gosh, there's plenty of both.
So, here's a question for you: How does the son of a middle class mother and a father/ Reared, though luckily not lost in a forgotten ‘burb of Boston/ By providence blessed with a recess…
Among the honorees scheduled to appear include producers and casts from all of this year's winners: Best New Play, INDECENT; Best New Musical, ERNEST SHACKLETON LOVES ME; Best Play Revival, …
Some two decades ago, I committed to playing a graphic adventure video game called "Myst."
Long before playwright Martin McDonagh put the spotlight on the Aran Islands in a trilogy of plays . . .the islands held a fascination for another Irish playwright, Edmund John Millington Sy…
New York subway regulars will undoubtedly empathize with the couple who are stuck on a broken-down train in London's Underground at the end of a pleasant/awkward first date, in Isla van Tric…
