3,986 stories from CurtainUp
Giant could some day make it big. Meanwhile, there is just too much of it.
Like Edward Hall, directors will always look for yet a better way to deal with Shylock, the forerunner of the money lenders and spenders whose recent borrowing bargains have drawn blood from…
Most of the abuses in the corporate office depicted have gone the way of the manual typewriter, there are plenty of overworked, under-appreciated and easily outsourced underdogs to make the …
While Ethan Coen's triptych explore some Kafkaesque workplace issues, he's less like Kafka than a story-telling John Stewart or Steven Colbert with a nod to O. Henry
This West Coast premiere is DOA.
Jonathan Marc Sherman's 1993 "he-said, he said" campus drama is dated but well acted
Never a crowd-pleaser, even the original, with the formidable team of Bert Lahr and E.G. Marshall only had 60 performances. But without it and its author there would be no Harold Pinter, Tom…
The lovely to look at and listen to and thoroughly endearing narcissist at the center of Everyday Rapture is not just nice but a star—not a semi-star but a true hyphen-less, capitalized Star.
The plot of this dated melodrama can be summed up to fit a Tweet: Pay-back time banquet preparations. Mother Goddamn confronts hoity-toity friends at pay-back banquet. Ex-lover gets his come…
David Hyde Pierce is the glue that holds this fluffy entertainment together
Strip Hampton's drawing room farce transported to a London university setting of its bon mots and clever send-up of Chekhov's dictum about guns, and you're left with a too talky play that do…
While it's a play that will have you walking out a touch unsure whether you really loved and understood what you saw, you won't be bored watching it and you'll probably find yourself thinkin…
Fortunately, this production has enough striking scenes to offset the risks of its excessively high concept staging
If ever a new play deserved a long and prosperous life, this is the one.
An early Michael Frayn comedy is part of Hampstead Theatre's 50th anniversary celebrations
The show's audience appeal is best likened to Public Television's Reel 13 Movie Nights: a traditional golden oldie crowd pleaser (like West Side Story); then something different for the more…
A beautifully revived at the Papermill Playhouse.
As if directing a Broadway hit weren't enough, Arthur Laurents, at the young age of 91, has penned a new play
With the terrific British cast and director from the much lauded Old Vic production on board, the triptych is as hilarious and poignant as ever.
Taking a successful punt with unusual and risky casting, this production manages to unite the company's northern grit with the sparkle of Lenny Henry to create a brutally cogent tragedy.
This seems to be selling as fast the calendar which sold out in 38 minutes and is proving both recession and critic proof!
West Coast premiere of McPherson's play
Although there's ultimately not much of a story to tell, in this Propspect Theater production, the music effectively becomes its own story
