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Who's afraid of the big bad Swede? The Donmar Warehouse gives Strindberg his due.
Stoppard's play dissects the complexities and infidelities of the human heart, in a way that resembles stories from his own past.
Based on the movie The Apartment , Promises, Promises achieved a fresh note when it first hit Broadway. But that was 40 years ago.
The work of Stephen Sondheim gets a musical night of celebration and looking back.
The songs of Green Day shake the rafters of Broadway and threaten to crumble the walls.
Feathered headdresses, sequin-spangled costumes and dominatrix gear all make for a spritely, and surprisingly wholesome, revival.
A dining room full of pompous, uppity characters go round and round, slugging down wine and spitting out snobbery.
This smart docu-dramedy brings wit and realism to a story of love and gay rights in the 1950s.
Great talents come together for this rare opera selection at the Met, only to not meet expectations.
A satiric, political rock musical about Andrew Jackson ... why had no one thought of this before?
Mark Haddon has done well as an author in examining human disorders, but his technique is complicated when brought to the stage.
The 60s musical comes to London with a full transplant of the Broadway cast.
An undiscovered work of Tennessee Williams is dug up, dusted off, and shines for the first time.
Themes of prejudice and injustice are turned into a thumping, optimistic musical in a jail cell.
A new approach to the Williams classic brings the complex characters newly to light.
This jukebox musical puts Elvis Presley, Jerry Lee Lewis, Carl Perkins and Johnny Cash in a room together and gives you just what you came for.
Despite the immense talent thrown at this production, it falls short of the concise, quirky world of the characters and misses with the music.
A play that had an electric charge of controversy a hundred years ago now feels like an only slightly newer version of an old thing.
Twyla Tharp choreographs a stunning dance show to the voice of Frank Sinatra.
The density of Shakespeare's poetry defies a minimalist approach.
The cast is fantastic; the story and the direction, on the other hand, are a bit pitchy.
If you lived in Britain during the 1970s, you might be reminded of the bad television at the time while watching this one.
Rain takes us non-linearly through nearly a century of twisting plotlines as the connections between characters come beautifully to light.
This London import gives us a dramatic evening behind the scenes with artist Mark Rothko.
Feinstein and Dame Edna do entertaining work on their own, but when thrown together, the combination is a bit off.
