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A play about Martin Luther King starring Samuel L. Jackson and Angela Bassett – you d expect that to be good, right? You d be wrong.
Stephen Karam’s skewed vision is a bit heavy on cleverness, ultimately leaving the audience members scratching their heads.
There is a united ensemble feel to every element in this highly commendable production of one of Shakespeare’s neglected works.
How did such respected authors and directors come to put together such a bad triple-bill?
Harper Lee s classic characters have been brought to life with appealing insight and clarity.
Linda Lavin gives a shining performance in Nicky Silver s latest blend of comedy and drama.
Reviving a Terence Rattigan play is a good idea, but Man and Boy is not the best choice.
Eugene Ionesco s odd, brilliant 65-minute play turns language on its head and relationships inside out, rushing you quickly away from normalcy.
A patchwork of solutions has failed to fix this expensive disaster.
Self-pity and self-destruction never felt so damn good.
Tweaking hasn’t hurt a bit; this spirited revival pumps the life back into a sometimes troubled, still treasured classic.
Although Simon Russell Beale s return to the stage is an exciting thing, the slow build of this story is not.
Charles Busch shows once again that he knows how to write terrific one-liners and uproarious scenes.
John Glover dazzles as the main event in Jonathan Tolins L.A. import.
Both touching and irreverent, this look at Henry VIII's era takes a much different path than Shakespeare's.
After getting slashed by New York reviews, Phantom's sequel has its moment on the London stage.
Playwright Anya Reiss steps on the scene with an impressive debut, especially considering she wrote it when she was 17.
A valiant attempt to reconcile light and dark ends up a bit of a muddle.
Elliott Levey comes out swinging his bloodthirsty sword as Robespierre.
The Globe manages to capture the gritty essence of Shakespeare's original attention and present it on a modern stage.
Our Town has a history of doing it right, a legacy not to be broken with its current cast.
Mark Rylance propels the play single-handedly, not stealing the thunder but rather creating it.
With help from Jeff Goldblum, Vaudeville gives one of Neil Simon's lesser-known plays its day in the sun.
In what is not Andrew Lloyd Webber's best musical, the louder the emotions get on stage, the less they hit their mark in the audience.
A transatlantic lineup for two Shakespeare classics doesn t provide the magic one might expect.
