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Few playwrights are as skilled as Lynn Nottage in excavating the souls of the disadvantaged, whether spiritually, emotionally, or economically.
At what point is the line between political work and propaganda crossed? Does crossing that line negate the work's value as art?
As the Internet moves out of childhood and into its uneasy adolescence, stories about it (or at least that use it as a backdrop) have to change as well.
Few of the people Anna Deavere Smith portrays in her new play at Second Stage, Notes From the Field, could be considered articulate in the traditional sense.
Once the deed is done, once the line is crossed, how can there be any turning back? That's the question being raised and also the underlying problem with the unrelentingly creepy production …
Annoyed Liaisons? Perturbed Liaisons? Mildly Irritated Liaisons? . . .
War may be hell, but in Red Bull Theater's fierce and fiery production of Shakespeare's Coriolanus, it is politics that is the ultimate destroyer of lives and souls, especially for the might…
There is no shortage of superlatives to describe the touring production of An American in Paris, but most of them are overused. Rather than label it as sublime, or stunning, or as must see, …
I'll give it to Andrew Bergh: He sure knows his Rodgers, Hammerstein, Crouse, Lindsay, and Lehman!
There are a lot of potential elements to great theatre: superb writing, and outstanding production, sublime acting. But I would argue that one of the chief things that makes a great show - t…
Sunday in the Park With George, the Pulitzer Prize-winning James Lapine-Stephen Sondheim musical, tells the intertwining stories of two artists born a century apart who both struggle with ma…
The American experience is not (and never has been) exclusively white, even if so many of the narrative genres - and their associated films - linked to it frequently are.
The kind of group prayer you see when the lights go up on Samuel D. Hunter's new play The Harvest, which just opened at Lincoln Center's Claire Tow Theater in an LCT3 production, is like non…
Overanalyzing life is easy, but living it is hard.
Producers Jeffrey Seller et al have given Chicago a cast that could have opened the show on Broadway.
It pains me, but I must start this review with words any standup comedian, such as Monica Piper, would probably not want to hear: Piper's new one-woman comedy at New World Stages, Not That J…
The trenchant tale of an underestimated two-bit crook who becomes one of the world's most notorious criminals is brought vividly to life in the Phoenix Theatre Ensemble's production of Berto…
Her insanity may be unforgivable, but it's at least understandable.
The Internet may be adept at killing newspapers (or at least putting them on life support), but there's no way it can ever kill The Front Page.
The sound, whether it's audible or technically silent, is deafening throughout the 90 blissful minutes that constitute the Keen Company revival of tick, tick...BOOM! that just opened at the …
Puffs, the wacky new romp by Matt Cox that just opened at the Elektra Theatre, answered a question I didn't realize I had while reading J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series: What of the fourth…
"All you need is love."
To watch Sarah Jones work is to be in awe of her.
Stephen Karam has written a moving, surprising, and painfully relatable play about a family on the brink of crisis in a society devastated by social and economic uncertainly.
In musicals, where every lyric, note, and dance step can (and should) have a precisely articulated and energized purpose, it's not easy to capture stasis in an exciting way.
