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Leave it to David Mamet to be the Scrooge to insist that our electing a black president notwithstanding, that the idea of harmonious race relations is just another humbug.
A period piece, but so what?
This smart and pleasing musical about Andy Warhol is sure to go on to lots of fame after Yale.
Shakespeare's comedy is conspicuously decked out to look like the perfect family holiday show at the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey
World premiere of Athol Fugard with a poignant performance by Sam Waterston
Mike Daisey's pilgrimage to the land of Tanna shakes the stuffing out of Wall Street.
Famous for its revivals, resurrections and restorations of forgotten but worthy plays of yore, the Mint Theater Company is currently taking a rather audacious leap into the more adventurous …
Liv Ullman is an impressively subtle director. Her use of painter Edward Hopper's bare landscapes as her production's visual model has broadened the universality and deepened our perspective…
The performances are so painfully brilliant we are totally caught up in the emotional kick of the production.
How does the Menier Chocolate Factory do it? How do they produce year after year reliably wonderful musicals?
Thirteen-year-old, cigarette smoking, music loving Mick Kelly is one of the central and most endearing characters in Carson McCullers' novel, My Heart Is a Lonely Hunter That hasn't changed …
Melissa James Gibson's characters' interconnected life-at-a-roadblock stories are ordinary but in a way that demands our attention and makes for an enjoyable, wistfully sad comedy.
The acting isn't the problem with a group of actors who are more than capable of straight acting and great comedy but the writing, direction and design may be.
Mary Swan and Saul Jaffé re-examines the well-known story through a humorous yet poignant lens
This musical at La Jolla Playhouse will entertain while also getting viewers wanting to know more.
Recast and restaged, Clean Break 's latest production. This Wide Night, returns to the Soho Theatre after touring women's prisons nationwide. Clean Break is a company that concentrates its work on women who have been affected by the criminal justice system. This play is no exception as it is based on real life experiences the playwright, Chloë Moss, has collected from her research at HMP Cookham Wood.
It all sounded so promising: the very talented Henry Goodman in a play by Timberlake Wertenbaker about the French impressionist painter Edward Degas. But it seems that even in the hands of H…
Mike Bartlett's plays are original and often about emotional relationships. His latest, Cock, is given a wonderful production in the Royal Court Jerwood Theatre Upstairs directed in the round in a small circular wooden space by James Macdonald.
Alan Bennett is England's most loved playwright for his quirky observation and ability to poke gentle fun, to seek out the ridiculous in everyday behaviour. In his latest play, The Habit of Art, he explores the sexuality of poet WH Auden and composer Benjamin Britten.
Fluidity is a word that seems as if it's been invented for the direction and stage craft of this ambitious project.
If only Kenneth Lonergan had written a less overstuffed, overambitious and underwhelming play for his friend Matthew Broderick.
The show is as exciting as before and looks sensational in its Broadway home where it has taken over the interior walls of the theater's auditorium.
I don't know what exactly brought The Merry Widow to mind as I was watching Thom Thomas's immensely entertaining A Moon To Dance By, which had its premiere last February at the Pittsburgh Playhouse. But I can attest to with assurance that Franz Lehar's adored heroine doesn't hold a candle to Thomas's, whom Jane Alexander is giving a sensually ripe portrayal.
Paula Vogel's A Civil War Christmas, the holiday offering at the Huntington Theater, is a grandly, even madly ambitious, event. On Christmas Eve, 1864, we career from the battlefields of northern Virginia (full of African-American soldiers) to Mary Todd Lincoln hunting down a Bavarian-style Christmas tree, to a little girl lost in the snow while fleeing imaginary slave-catchers. This is a noble step towards the creation of a new genre in American theater, a hybrid of British pantomime, a church pageant, and a Dickens novel with a multicultural spin.
