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This is a brilliant revival of Chekhov's early play. Michael Grandage has assembled an exceptional cast - did anyone say Kenneth Branagh - and adapter Tom Stoppard has worked his magic, too.
This beautifully realized version of The Tempest casts a magic spell. Mandy Patinkin is a moving Prospero.
Nicky Silver's Three Changes plays like a psychological thriller... without the psychology or the thrills.
A Tale of Two Cities is not as bad as, shall we say, it could have been... There are a number of winning performances, chief among them James Barbour as Sydney Carleton.
Nicky Silver's Three Changes is a dark comedy with the emphasis on the word dark - as in too dark. Here's hoping the playwright returns to lighter, funnier fare soon. We could all use a few …
A.R Gurney's Buffalo Gal offers up a "juicy role" for Susan Sullivan, but the other characters in this Chekhovian lookalike are not very interesting.
In case one forgot, there's more to Lerner and Loewe than just My Fair Lady and Brigadoon. Take Gigi, for example-here presented in a well-done production at the Open Air.
While the physical elements of Hair -the long hair and flower-power costumes-may come across as dated, its antiwar message resonates with all the power it did in the Vietnam era.
Acclaimed British playwright Simon Gray dies at 71.
The award-winning August: Osage County has some new players, including Estelle Parsons and Frank Wood. But audiences needn't worry: the show doesn't miss a beat.
Williamstown has whipped this century-old chestnut into a lovely, light-as-air mousse.
Theresa Rebeck's latest project, touching on the theatre world's lowest form of life, could use some retooling - still, it's a hoot.
Three one-man Beckett dramas based on works not originally designed for the stage find themselves part of the Lincoln Center Festival.
Richard Nelson's Some Americans Abroad has an impressive cast of stage veterans, but the revival comes across as somewhat slack.
Mamma Mia! has its brush with brilliance-the fabulous Dancing Queen sequence-which makes the movie worth seeing despite its flaws.
No use beating a dead horse: Sam Shepard's Kicking a Dead Horse is a dull play.
The pros and cons of feminism are given a too thorough going over in Joanna Murray-Smith's The Female of the Species. There's a strong whiff of desperation as the play plods along.
Rupert Goold has come up with a brilliant take on Luigi Pirandello's Six Characters in Search of an Author - true to the spirit of what the Italian master was attempting 87 years ago.
[title of show] is just the kind of show Broadway needs. It's real and bursting with serious ambition.
The cloven-hoofed one may be one of the stars of Damn Yankees, but this Encores! production never really catches fire.
Christopher Durang's The Marriage of Bette and Boo is one of the bleakest theatrical portraits of marriage. It's also a sharp-edged black comedy.
Goold to direct Gambon in Pinter's No Man's Land at the Duke of York's.
Damn Yankees is as satisfying and bracing as a one-out rally in the ninth. It recalls a time when baseball was truly our national pasttime.
South Pacific can't be revived...nonsense. All it needed was the right revival...And this production is the right one.
