Nobody applauds when Annette Bening first appears on stage in All My Sons, the third Broadway revival of Arthur Miller's 1947 tragedy, the playwright's first hit play. This is because of…
Ink recounts how Rupert Murdoch, newly arrived in London from Australia in 1969, bought the Sun, "a stuck-up broadsheet that…never once made a profit," and in a year's time made it a wildl…
Woolly Mammoth's 40th year marks the inaugural first season selected by its second Artistic Director, Marìa Manuela Goyanes, and for this year's slate she has selected shows with signific…
The National's stage has an air heavy with anticipation. Trash hangs across a large set that is part tin shack, part jungle gym. It's as if Marie Kondo has Kondo-ed a junkyard. Everything a …
Studio Theatre's 2019-2020 season will include an appetizer and a main course. The appetizer is a 6-production summer season which the company calls its Showroom; it consists of two full-len…
The Chesapeake Shakespeare Company has decided to shoot for the moon in its 2019-2020 season. In addition to doing Measure for Measure, Hamlet and Much Ado About Noting, the company will be …
 Tootsie, the musical adaptation of the 1982 movie comedy about a difficult actor who becomes a beloved actress, begins bravely with an opening number in which bubbly ensemble members si…
There's a notion these days in theatrical circles that the hallmark of a great play is that it can only be a play; that the story being told wouldn't work in any other medium. As I was watch…
Like my mama used to say, just because somebody asks for something doesn't mean you have to give it. In the case of the Alliance for New Music-Theatre's exemplary Black Pearl Sings!, it's a …
Gary is a mess, deliberately so. Written by the downtown provocateur Taylor Mac making his Broadway debut, it stars three of the best comic stage actors in America as three minor characters …
Hillary and Clinton is exactly the play we do not need right now, a well-acted but irrelevant middlebrow entertainment starring Laurie Metcalf and John Lithgow as the presidential candid…
On Broadway, as Off, Hadestown is a hell of a musical. But it's changed. When it opened Off-Broadway three years ago, Anais Mitchell's concept album had been turned into an inventively s…
A farce, a farce! My kingdom for a farce! Fortunately, you won't have to pay such a high price for this one- though, it's worth it. Ken Ludwig, acclaimed author of Lend Me A Tenor, revisits …
There will be plenty of the familiar in the Kennedy Center's 17-production mainstage season " classics like Cats, Bye Bye Birdie, Jesus Christ Superstar as well as musicals for which Washing…
Les Deux Noirs: Notes on Notes of a Native Son, Psalmayene 24's creatively imagined encounter of two great American writers, Richard Wright and James Baldwin in a Parisian café in 1953, thr…
Can a Star Wars villain and a Soviet spy find love, sex and happiness together on Broadway? That's the question we're primed to ask in the first Broadway revival of Lanford Wilson's 1987 pla…
"Sisters, Sisters, There were never such devoted sisters," warbled Rosemary Clooney and Rosemary Clooney in White Christmas. (Yes, Clooney was the stand-in singing voice for Vera-Ellen for t…
Toby's Dinner Theatre has been transformed into a cathedral for its towering production of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, including some of the most powerful and moving choral work you are lik…
The Pulitzer Committee announced yesterday that the recipient for this year's Pulitzer Prize for Drama is Brooklyn-based playwright Jackie Sibblies Drury for Fairview, which debuted at Off-B…
Signature Theatre is known for reviving and revamping long forgotten musicals " and they don't shy away from a challenge. Grand Hotel tells the story of a handful of strangers, drawn tog…
"Stay," the dying beloved tells her lover, "where we were so long alone together. My shade will comfort you." But of course he does not, and instead moves to a single room in a place where t…
In Shakespeare's time, Christians were forbidden to lend money at interest (see Merchant of Venice) and so the Western world, intellectually vibrant though it was, was mostly economically st…
I am pleased to report a rising company of young-ish actors doing first-rate work: a conceptually cohesive, intimate, spunky, charming staging of a pastoral Shakespeare comedy all too easy t…
You might call Scena's Pinter Rep director Robert McNamara's arranged marriage of sorts " four short plays by Nobel Prize winner Harold Pinter, the British playwright of such full length pla…
P.Y.G. or the Misedumacation of Dorian Belle follows Blacky Blackerson, a.k.a. Black, (Seth Hill) and Alexand Da Great (Gary L. Perkins III) who are the Petty Young Goons (P.Y.G.), a Black r…