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Lillian Hellman's return to foxy Hubbards covers just a few days in the family parlor and patio, but it's long enough to see where the Hubbard siblings acquired their avariciousness and wobb…
Once you can admit to yourself that you are never too oldf and to everyone that you are never too old to love the story of Peter Pan, then give yourself and any youngsters that you love a tr…
Many wonderful moments with some excellent music and lyrics. The problem of some of the too repetitive dialogue could easily be solved by judicious pruning
The usual hits and misses -- Series B coming up
Barrington Stage has launched its summer 2010 season with another drama to prove that summer theater needn't be the equivalent of the beach read.
Vaclav Havel's play is buoyant and fanciful and it packs loads of off-kilter charm
Paul Sparks and Kate Walsh generate wonderfully watchable chemistry with each other and the audience in Stephen Belber's new two-hander.
A welcome return to the theatre for Jonathan Harvey. Great writing, great acting and great direction.
A Viennoisserie of an operetta with a plot straight out of Gilbert and Sullivan on LSD after they had been reading The Joy of Sex
This new musical about the fatherless children of a coal mining town began singing four years ago, so it's a coming of age story for the show as well as its characters
Playwright Joe DiPietro has approached the controversial subject of creationism versus evolution in his engrossing and provocative play Creating Claire, now having its world premiere at the George Street Playhouse.
Eric Parness certainly meant well, but his musty revival of Henrik Ibsen's The Master Builder at the Clurman Theatre doesn't capture the spiritual audacity of the masterpiece. Parness, who is the artistic director of Resonance Ensemble, treats the work as a museum piece that must be admired but not embraced.
A tasty mix of lively staging and a clever use of a background that makes you wonder why no one has coupled it with political satire before.
Billy Crudup and an A-Plus ensemble and handsome production make Adam Rapp's new play a serio-comic fun ride
Trust playwright/performer Claudia Shear to use the conservator's art to fashion a serio-comic play, and for the New York Theatre Workshop to give it an elegantly staged production
David Ives' adaptation of Corneille maintains the charm and look of French costume drama in English language that is contemporary, very accessible and in pentameter
Polly Stenham kick-started her debut play by helping herself to characters and ideas from the best past and present playwrights
After a difficult first hour this sets up powerful, emotional, electric shocks
The American Institute of Architects is an apt site specific setting for Oren Safdie's mock trial of a Starchitect whose latest project has brought less than beneficial consequences
The easy to mount girls-night-out-show at the Geffen
An intriguing play about Mies van der Rohe's famous Farnsworth House that would be even better if the director had heeded the architect's less-is-more philosophy
Elizabeth Meriwether explores the need for getting and giving help through two desperate characters on the edge of personal upheaval
Post-modern playwright Sarah Ruhl has put together a trilogy of an evening—three plays about three different communities in different eras putting on productions of The Passion Play. T…
This is not light-hearted, forget-your-troubles entertainment. It demands careful attention to accustom the ear to the thick accents and to extract the meaning of both the spoken and unspoken interchanges between its two characters, both ex-cons. More than anything, This Wide Night is driven by its characters. With Edie Falco, taking a welcome break from her Nurse Jackie TV gig, and Alison Pill, one of our most impressive and busy young stage actors, to portray these women on the fringes of society, this quiet and seemingly uneventful play is a deeply moving theatrical experience.
