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You already know the tune that gives Martin Sherman's new play at The Public Theater, Gently Down the Stream, its title.
Charm used to be the glue that held musicals together, but today it's largely unappreciated, if not outright scorned, as antithetical to big products and big budgets that can't (or shouldn't…
The Play That Goes Wrong, which just opened at the Lyceum, is funny.
"Is death a bad thing?" asks one of the characters in Judson Blake's ambitious if rambling dystopian satire Perversion, now at the 13th Street Repertory Theater. Answer: It depends on who's …
It's tempting to refer to Adam Szymkowicz's new play Rare Birds by another name, perhaps "Dear Evan Wills."
It's rarely fun to have your intelligence demeaned, but you may not mind the way John Leguizamo does it.
When Lynn Nottage's new play Sweat opened at The Public Theater last year right before election day (November 3, to be exact) it made one kind of political statement.
At least the helicopter is better. . . .
Ken Ludwig's serviceable but toothless stage adaptation of Murder on the Orient Express at Princeton's McCarter Theatre Company owes more to Sidney Lumet than Agatha Christie.
Sarah Ruhl is a playwright who usually needs an editor, and for the first act of How to Transcend a Happy Marriage, her new play at the Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater at Lincoln Center, she seems…
Subtlety is no great hallmark of Arthur Miller's plays.
For their first musical together at The Public Theater in 2013, Here Lies Love, David Byrne and Alex Timbers (working with Fatboy Slim) chose Imelda Marcos to anchor a disco-fueled swirl thr…
Without Debra Monk, Mrs. Miller Does Her Thing, James Lapine's play with music receiving its world premiere production at Signature Theatre in Arlington, Virginia, would simply be an amiable…
Of all the irresistible forces in the universe, progress may be the toughest to slow down.
Has devolution ever appeared more terrifying - or more vital - onstage than it does in The Emperor Jones?
For many Americans - and undoubtedly for many New Yorkers - memories of September 11, 2001, still sting.
Few next-generation directors have proven their understanding of understatement better than Sam Gold.
The Outer Space, the new concert-musical by Ethan Lipton that just opened at Joe's Pub, turns on a familiar axiom: "Things are the same all over."
Can someone who's truly deprived of joy give it abundantly to others?
With the premiere of Dolphins and Sharks at the Labyrinth Theater Company, the professional debut of playwright James Anthony Tyler is an impressive one indeed.
Love and sex are complicated at any age, but they're especially so for adolescents who lack the experience, wisdom, and good judgment needed to properly wrangle their simmering feelings.
Is it written somewhere that we can only learn from the past by filtering it through the present?
If you're familiar with Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, the 1979 musical by Hugh Wheeler and Stephen Sondheim, you're probably inclined (with good reason) to not be in the mo…
. Our cast is still right next to the audience and it's constantly moving. So, I needed to maintain that detail and to make sure that our ensemble was a little brighter and bolder but still …
You've undoubtedly heard that those who do not learn from the past are condemned to repeat it.
