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... Pass Over is using both realism and absurdism to make a powerful piece of political theater. The three styles are seamlessly blended by director Danya Taymor and her superb cast.
Just a few years ago, Broadway audiences witnessed a swarm of Elvis impersonators jumping out of a plane in Honeymoon in Vegas, the Jason Robert Brown and Andrew Bergman musical based on Ber…
"There are no accidents."
Invincible, Torben Betts's darkly comic play about the class divide in Britain, places its audience in the company of two very annoying couples, neither of whom we would probably want to spe…
At the height of Beatlemania in the 1960s there was a persistent"and as Mark Twain would say, greatly exaggerated"report of the death of Paul McCartney.
William Shakespeare's Julius Caesar, which opened tonight at the Public Theater's Delacorte Theater in Central Park, has been given a contemporary makeover by the Public's artistic director …
Bella: An American Tall Tale wore me down.
Primarily a British theatre director, Clare Lizzimore is also a budding playwright.
The clash between "art" and "commerce" has rarely been on the kind of painful display it is now at the Lucille Lortel in the form of MCC Theater's eye-rolling production of Matthew Perry's T…
A couple of sparkling performances and the assuring presence of five-time Tony nominated Patricia Birch serving as director and choreographer are not enough to prevent the new musical Sweete…
The Government Inspector, Nikolai Gogol's 1836 satiric play about public corruption in Tsarist Russia, opening tonight at The Duke, has been given the full "Marxist" treatment by Red Bull Th…
A production of Abram Hill's On Strivers Row, opening today at the Metropolitan Playhouse, offers a rare opportunity to see the kind of work that was a specialty of the American Negro Theate…
Proving once again that inspired ideas for new musicals often come from the most unexpected places, Tim Rosser (music) and Charlie Sohne's (book and lyrics) The Boy Who Danced On Air at the …
It's called Building the Wall, and yes, the wall referred to is That Wall.
In Jon Brittain's play, Rotterdam, opening today as part of the Brits Off Broadway Festival at 59E59 Theaters, Alice (Alice McCarthy) has finally worked up the courage to come out as gay, vi…
Choosing a title for a show can be fraught with danger, especially when that title poses a question.
Questions of blame, shame, and culpability lie just beneath the surface as estranged family members, friends, repentant drug dealers, and casual acquaintances gather to say their last goodby…
... a gorgeous, sensual show that tells its complicated political story through the media of music and dance.
If you think of "the troubles" in Ireland and the nationalistic, ethnic, and religious strife that rocked that part of the world as strictly a late twentieth century phenomenon, you may be d…
"Imagination + Structure = Art." With these words scrawled on a whiteboard, an instructor kicks off the first session of a writing workshop in the premiere production of Lawrence Dial's natu…
Many years before Joseph "the Elephant Man" Merrick was hauled around London to be gawked at as the "freak du jour," a young black South African woman named Saartjie Baartman was lured from …
You don't need to have served in the military to know that the old axiom is true.
When we first encounter the tough-as-nails Effie in Gary Owen's sizzling monologue of a play, Iphigenia In Splott, she is scrunched over in a chair, half-buried in a hoodie.
Little Wars, a radically anti-factual historical what-if scenario, raises the question: Do playwrights have any special moral obligation to clarify true/false distinctions in the post-factua…
The current, wish-come-true, New York City Center Encores! presentation of The Golden Apple will have seven performances over a five-day period.
