Often unabashedly romantic and quite funny, this sweetly old-fashioned show never slips into a soupiness that might lessen the effectiveness of its emotional message.
Sometimes authenticity just isn't worth it. Marie Jones' Rock Doves is so place-specific, so dependent on knowing and caring about the nasty slums of Belfast, so parochial in its Northern Irish accents and its Northern Irish politics, that an American audience is pretty much left out.
This one-woman show expertly walks the line between illumination and entertainment.
YEARS ago, Claude Solnik, a journalist and playwright, heard Jeff Bennett, a drama teacher, talk about his textbook "Secondary Stages: Revitalizing High School Theater" (Heinemann, 2001), an…
Some plays perfectly capture a time and place.
O'Brien, a talented cast and an innovative design team have the ability to pull it off. And at the center of their heroic efforts is Kevin Kline, giving what most likely will end up as the b…
Stephanie Zimbalist, 54, had never seen or read “The Subject Was Roses” when old friend Michael Mastro, who is directing, sent her the script.
As You Like It
The New York City Opera revival, which opened Tuesday, expertly mixes performers from the worlds of opera and musical theater. The result is an enormously satisfying, well-sung production, g…
The man refuses to be categorized. And it is that refusal to be stereotyped that makes "Not a Genuine Black Man" such an intriguing and entertaining evening.
Anthony Marshall's long life has enough subplots to fill one of his Broadway plays.