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You don't need to know anything about science to understand the issues at the heart of Heisenberg, the play by Simon Stephens that just opened at the Samuel J. Friedman in a Manhattan Theatr…
Sarah Ruhl's new, immensely provocative "Scenes from Court Life, or the whipping boy and his prince," ... juxtaposes the dynasty of Stuart Kings Charles I and II in seventeenth century Engla…
Let's get a few things straight right off the bat. Nick Kroll and John Mulaney, who wrote and are starring in Oh, Hello on Broadway, which just opened at the Lyceum, are utterly unconvincing…
It's tricky for a Broadway musical to be innovative, tough when the show is a comedy, and virtually impossible when it's constituted exclusively of pre-existing songs.
"Home" is a word that may have many definitions depending on the speaker, but in The Road to Home, it doesn't even qualify as a genuine destination.
If you have any doubts of the grip a particular 1980s sitcom about four post-menopausal women sharing a house in Miami still has on the culture....
They're so close, you could reach out and touch them: that old couple at the next table, at once unknown and familiar.
Who says Big Broadway is dead? As far as any regular theatregoer is concerned, it's alive and well and living at the John Golden.
Forget laws of logic"what happened to the laws of physics?
Few of those documenting the ever-raging battle of the sexes in the theatre are quite as experienced as Neil LaBute, who's made it some part of practically every play he's written.
It's a sad comment on both human nature and American nature that we never seem to learn our lessons properly the first time.
Sorcery and magic spells are integral to the plot of Michael Elyanow's 2012 play The Children. Indeed, Elyanow cast a spell of his own, shape-shifting Euripides' classic revenge tragedy Mede…
Hamlet is William Shakespeare's best-known (and most-quoted) play for a reason.
The Huffington Post reports that close to 200 African Americans have been shot and killed by the police thus far in 2016. This is a sobering thought by any reckoning. It also serves as the u…
Playwright Penny Jackson may be the queen of the cautionary tale, especially when she is writing about disaffected upper class private school students and the trouble they can get into when …
Looking for a foolproof curative for our current contentious (some might say unbearable) election season? Who can blame you?
Like waves crashing against the rocks on a beach, the force assaulting the Gabriel family of Rhinebeck, New York, is oppressive but gentle, and slowly but surely eroding everything they are.
Late in the first act of Fiorello!, the titular hero does something unheard of in politics in the implosive days through which we're presently living: He strives to unite.
That's our Mary Shanley, impeccably dressed in the latest fashions, toting her stylish white purse, and hefting the police revolver that earned her the nickname that is the title of the bio-…
"You give me everything you got." That commandment, handed down from one goddess to another during the electrifying course of Marie and Rosetta, may as well be the theme statement of Georg…
Forget medicine and forget magic - the greatest healing power known to mankind exists within food.
A ballerina without a spine, a lonely and very forgetful man, his perfectionist wife, and an auto mechanic go round and round and round, swapping partners, playing endless games of Charades,…
Immortality just isn't enough for some people. Take, for example, Leonard Bernstein, or at least the version of him that appears front and center in Hershey Felder's play Maestro, which just…
Bears in Space, the production by Collapsing Horse that is something of a cult hit in Ireland, Scotland, and England, has entered into orbit at 59E59 Theaters as part of Origin's 1st Irish F…
Just because you're a phenomenon doesn't mean you're bulletproof.
