In “A Life in the Theatre,” David Mamet's comic valentine to the stage, Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight play actors yoked together in a barrage of bad plays, malfunctioning props…
Mark Bennett's music for "The Coast of Utopia" helps bridge the leaps and bounds in Tom Stoppard's sprawling trilogy.
The Maly Drama Theatre of St. Petersburg brings us -- courtesy of New York's Lincoln Center Festival -- "Life and Fate," an adaptation by its famed director Lev Dodin of Vasily Grossman's no…
The conversations between David Frost and Richard Nixon that are the basis of the play "Frost/Nixon" must be seen to be fully appreciated.
"Even in the days of David Merrick, he had investors," theater historian and critic Ken Mandelbaum says, referring to the legendary producer of such musicals as "Gypsy," "Hello, Dolly!" and …
What might have been maudlin turns into a couple realizing they need each other, growing older and facing a future that is anything but secure.
Quite by chance Wednesday morning, I came into the Engelhardt Court of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while actors Christopher Cartmill and Michelle Hurst were reading poetry as part of the …
Several seasons back Sarah Ruhl's lovely adaptation of the "Eurydice" myth was produced at the Yale Repertory Theatre in New Haven. (Remember the flooding elevator? The room of string?)Now s…
Gone are the days, it is hoped, when Nicholas Hytner can cast two vocal washouts as leads in "Carousel." And maybe someday "Follies" will be cast with people who can sing.
As a high school drama teacher, she inspired nine-time Tony Award-winner Tommy Tune to pursue a career in show business.
"Jib," written and directed by third year student Michael McQuilken, Jan. 22-28 at the Iseman Theater, 1156 Chapel St, New Haven, as part of the programming at the Yale School of Drama. The…