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Conor McPherson's The Seafarer, recently seen on Broadway, is given an excellent revival at the George Street Playhouse.
'Tis the season to try and feel jolly. But did we really need a stage adaptation of Irving Berlin's White Christmas ?
You don't have to be born in the U.S.A. to get the power of Tracy Letts's August: Osage County. Dysfunctional families can be found across the universe.
Not a dream deferred, but a glorious dream realized in this cultural rags-to-riches tale.
Noted dance and theatre critic Clive Barnes has died at age 81.
This revival of one of Mamet's best is somewhat disappointing. The called for excitement and high energy is lacking
Provisional closing notice for American Buffalo - the date is November 23.
Billy Elliot: The Musical has finally crossed the pond. And the wait was definitely worthwhile. This is dynamic musical theater at its very best.
Road Show is by no means top drawer Sondheim. But, it's still Sondheim-and attention must be paid to this work by the most important figure in American musical theater over the past half cen…
You don't have to be a political junky to enjoy this behind-the-scenes look at a fictional campaign for the White House.
Absurd comedy and melancholy are center stage in What's That Smell: The Music of Jacob Sterling.
The Norman Conquests is Alan Ayckbourn's greatest theatrical achievement... Check out this superb revival for corroborating proof.
Come one, come all to the London Hippodrome...and enjoy , ahem, quite an unusual vaudeville evening
Romantic Poetry has very little romance and absolutely no poetry...At best, there are only small pleasures to be found in this piece.
This revival of David Mamet's take on the wicked ways of Hollywood has keen performances by Piven, Esparza and Moss.
Boy's Life had something fresh to say its first time around 1988...now, it doesn't inspire or surprise. The subject matter's been covered all too often in the intervening years.
This most tragic of plays has a superb Ralph Fiennes in the title role. But this isn't just a showy star turn. The entire cast lifts this into a proper ensemble piece.
To Be Or Not To Be ought to balance on the knife's edge where hysteria and hilarity meet. Only the knife is dull and the laughter is forced.
This revival of Harley Granville Barker's Waste wants for precisely nothing, especially from the second act onward. It's scintillating theater as only the British can do it.
Drama abhors a vacuum: Enough said about The Grand Inquisitor
Patrick Stewart and Ian McKellen to star in Beckett's Waiting for Godot in the West End
Two brilliant performers wrest comic delight from a way-off-Broadway debacle.
Actor-turned-director Alan Rickman's acutely observed production of Strindberg's Creditors stuns an audience with its unvarnished view of human venality.
A Man for All Season remains timeless thought-provoking entertainment. With a superb Frank Langella as Sir Thomas More.
