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Law and Shakespeare are present and clearly declaimed, which may well be enough for a Broadway smash. But director Michael Grandage, head of the estimable Donmar Warehouse, has done neither …
Samuel Beckett said "Nothing is funnier than unhappiness," and Carrie Fisher is here to prove he's still right. And she should know. In Wishful Drinking—her personable, almost excruciatingly personal autobiographical show and gossip-fest—the witty actress/author clearly appreciates the absurdity of her own tabloid-ready life.
This is humor of recognition, not revelation, deftly directed with snappy timing by Karen Carpenter. The show will probably run as long as there are women hungry to identify parts - any part…
The mild and predictable seven-character play has transferred intact from Chicago's Steppenwolf Theatre Company in Tina Landau's sensitively detailed naturalistic production. It also has a b…
For someone raised in Chicago, a weekend at these three plays felt like going back to the old neighborhood.
Star casting is justified with quality theater.
There is a stripped-down, stark intelligence at work in Peter Sellars' updated Washington rethinking of Othello, which boasts an unsettling, altogether captivating anti-star turn by Philip Seymour Hoffman as Iago to John Ortiz's slick and confident Moor. Alas, by the time the project has rethought Shakespeare's tragedy and rethought the rethinking, four hours have passed more as a lengthy psycho-political exercise than a full-blown adventure.
How smart are the producers of "Avenue Q?"
This smart.
"Passing Strange" is a real Broadway show, even if it doesn't fit into recognizable structures. And Spike Lee has made a real movie of a show that needs to last beyond the transient life of …
There is something audacious, though not really convincing, about Valerie Martin's dual challenge of mimicry here.
If you love cornball, break-a-leg musicals, you'll enjoy "Dames at Sea." But if Busby Berkeley movie musicals are not your thing, you may like "Dames" even more. Especially as cleverly mount…
Will Landesman be able to put the tattered NEA back on the radar after it's been demonized, marginalized and, ultimately, rendered invisible by decades of political opportunism and paranoia?
Equally important, is it good for the NEA to be back on the radar at all?
What's in a name? Ask Jason Marr, co-founder of the Hip to Hip Theatre Company, which brings Shakespeare in the park back to the Hamptons.
The announcement is as easy to ignore as the safety routine on airplanes. Turn off your cell phone. Put away all recording devises. Open all crinkly candy wrappers. To get our attention, som…
When the dance cannot turn a full evening into more than a series of strenuous effects, director-choreographer Jason Gilkison switches the lights from green to purple. When all else fails, w…
