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It's almost impossible to remember that this was written so long ago because the skill with which Coward draws the bickering and squabbling of a once married couple seems to stand for all ti…
David Harrower's new translation of Arthur Schnitzler's 1895 play at the Old Vic
I suspect that few people will want to hug the world in their arms after the ART's dark staging of Clifford Odets's 1935 naturalist classic.
Just about anything you ever have thought as or about a mother finds its way into Motherhood Out Loud, a compilation of the mom experiences of some of today's best-known playwrights and authors playing its world premiere at Hartford Stage.
Glee Club is the kind of sketch comedy inspired play you can't help but laugh along with.
The top-notch cast with which the Irish Rep production is blessed sees to it the entire two hours make for good theater
A shaggy severed hand story with some bleak Shepardesque symbolism, buried beneath the macabre laugh fest.
The large number of youngsters, parents and teachers at the Circle In the Square signal that this multiple ticket buying audience may well give this revival a healthy run.
Bill Cain's play juggles a fistful of genres: political thriller, revisionist history play that parallels current events, ethical rumination, family drama, comic spoof, play-within-a-play
Anupama Chandrasekhar's play could be described as East meeting West through technology
Erica Sullivan brings delightful freshness to A. R. Gurney's always popular dog story
A play does not have to have high ambitions in order to provide its audience with a fulfilling, thought-provoking experience. Gabe McKinley, the playwright responsible for the tight, understated Off-Broadway play Extinction understands this concept well. McKinley explores what evolution might mean in the face of our 21st century, using four characters within two rooms, in the span of one evening.
The Duchess of Malfi is not for the faint of heart, but it's a genuinely great play, and so any lover of classic theater should celebrate its newest incarnation at the Red Bull Theater—especially when the resulting production is as good as this one.
Audiences who missed The Temperamentals the first time around will be as glad as I was to have a chance to play catchup. This informative and entertaining play is not just one more addition to a season awash in old and new gay themed stories, but is as earnestly simple in its presentation as it is irrevocably splendid in its purpose.
The only atmospheric ghosts of this production are in the uncomfortable ghosts of past and perfectly resonating productions.
Not exactly one of those feel good advertisements for the esteem with which former pupils hold the teaching profession
The tragic Terezin story told with music
The prolific Craig Wright's update on the Oedipus myth
Not quite as exhilarating as its repertory partner
The kind of old-fashioned musical that makes you feel as if you're watching an amalgam of World War II movies and listening to some old long playing records of swing music by the Glenn Mille…
Director Michael Bloom has fully captured and emphasized the darker side of the play and its characters at the Papermill
Frank Gilroy's Pulitzer Prize drama combines the feel of an era with the timelessness of an American classic
John Lithgow and Jennifer Ehle are equals in dispensing the avalanche of sparkling bon mots. But all the facetious and condescending remarks quickly become tiresome
It would seem that revivals of Boys. . . have been made superfluous by its heirs, which include major works like Love! Valour! Compassion! and Angels In America as well as those using the same basic template in a different time frame, like The Last Sunday in June and the British My Night With Reg—not to mention Crowley's own sequel, Men From the Boys. Not so.
Like The Pain and the Itch, which introduced Bruce Norris's playwriting to Playwrights Horizons four years ago, Clybourne Park is a refreshingly in-your-face comedy.
