John Fredricksen taught the director of 'Capote,' Bennett Miller, and its screenwriter, Dan Futterman, in Mamaroneck, N.Y., in 1984.
A generosity of spirit permeates "Eurydice," Sarah Ruhl's odd yet often imaginative reworking of an ancient love story marked by abrupt loss.
Despite its attempt to be provocative about the nature of family, style and spin seem to be what "A Naked Girl on the Appian Way" is all about.
The production, now playing at the Cort Theatre, seems better, thanks to some smart recasting and a heightened sense of theatricality that director Scott Ellis has brought to the bright, fas…
"The Einstein Project," a biographical drama at Stockbridge's Berkshire Theatre Festival Tuesday through July 18, is the latest in a long string of regional productions about physicists.
Its two-year trek to Broadway, where it opens Tuesday, is the stuff of heartfelt emotion, involving Wilson and Todd Kreidler, his boyish collaborator. Yet its author was missing for much of …
"Adventurous" is not the adjective that comes to mind when you think of this season's dismal crop of new off-Broadway musicals.
But composer Michael John LaChiusa has put the word back into play with "See What I Wanna See," an intelligent, adult musical that entertains and astonishes at the same time.
The Joseph Papp Public Theater will offer one play in Central Park this summer, not two as in the past, as one of several measures to improve its finances.
Call it "a couple of straight guys sitting around bonding." And, boy, do they bond and bond and bond.
That's much of the plot in "The Thing About Men," the generic, tedious new musical at off-Broadway's Promenade Theatre.