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Will Powers explores the testy but curiously close relationship, indeed a provocative bonding, between boxing champion Muhammad Ali and former Hollywood film star Stepin Fetchit
Given its prestigious workshop productions and reading, it's hard to understand why the final product is so unfocussed and confused.
A play that sticks with you, both for its laughs and for its message.
Another Broadway musical hit for London
The title's long but the play runs just one hour.
Directed by Anne Kauffman at the Wilma
Like the 1970s film on which it is based, Doris Miresco's multi-media adaptation is a love it or hate it proposition.
With epic productions making something of a comeback in this age of short attention span 90-minute plays (Tom Stoppard's The Coast of Utopia a couple of seasons ago, and this season Horton Foote's 3-part, 9-play the Orphans' Home Cycle), I recently decided to revisit The Jewel in the Crown, the masterful Masterpiece Theater adaptation of Paul Scott's Raj Quartet novels.
Martin Crimp's adaptation starring Keira Knightley
An O-Henry-like story, lots of humor and puppet magic all combine to create a wholesome, fun-for-all-ages production playing its second year as the Christmas offering at the Goodspeed Opera …
Hartford Stage's 12th annual production of Dickens' Classic
Though this low budget production has little of the glitz that attracts Christmas tourists to Broadway, it is filled with enthusiasm and good fun and at a ticket price of $18, $10 for studen…
Geraint Wyn Davies is mesmerizing, whether he is reciting Shakespeare, playing Thomas or playing Thomas playing himself
While I can't in all earnest agree with anyone who thinks Ernest In Love is an unappreciated musical masterpiece, this Irish Rep revival makes the most of its modest charms.
Horton Foote's epic continues and things are looking up for Homer Robedeaux.
This well-deserved extension is well worth a trip to Brooklyn.
Angela Lansbury's performance as Madame Armfeldt is a triumphant answer to that lady's "Where's the art, where's craft?"
Michael Grandage and Christopher Oram have together created a wonderfully visual and searing production about painter Mark Rothko.
The two middle-aged Afghani Jews who inhabit Seth Rozin's comedy play off each other like two old and seasoned vaudevillians performing in a lengthy skit on the stage of the Palace Theater.
True stories are a popular source for films and plays. For Nichola McAuliffe, the true story she's dramatized as A British Subject, is not just something she read about in a newspaper—…
While not considered one of Shaw's major works, Misalliance offers enough ever-relevant Shavian quips about politics, women, marriage, and the relations between parents and children to fill the better part of a quotation book. When staged well and cast with the right actors, it's still great fun. The production now at the Pearl Theater Company's new home at City Center's Stage II meets those qualifications.
An original, beautifully staged take on a much told tale
While the 6 playwrights commissioned to write about the recession's impact were limited by the length, a full contingent of the Flea's interns were ready to serve. So you're in for a mighty …
