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The three main characters in Mark Schultz's modern Grimm's fairy tale don't exactly live up the producing company's mission of making plays with which audiences can identify.
Broadway audiences rejoice. Janet McTeer, who won the Tony for her last Broadway appearance eleven years ago as a highly original Nora in Ibsen's A Doll's House, is back on Broadway and you couldn't ask for a more regal and steadfast Queen of Scots.
The house of Atreus has got nothing on these ruined, Vietnam era El Paso-ans
Seth Rozin of InterAct Theatre Company directs this boiling-over comedy
The Aquila Theater's creative team has taken the Iliad: Book One and ingeniously transplanted the ancient tale to the World World II era.
A splendid ensemble, under the direction of Bartlett Sher, graces this stunning Broadway revival of the play that first appeared on Broadway 21 years ago
Richard Greenberg's ninth world premiere at South Coast Rep since 1988
The National Theatre's sell out play about horses in the First World War transfers to the New London Theatre
Leaving the theater, you cannot help but feel an unnerving uneasiness at having been so riveted by Quentin's heinous story.
Raul Castillo has stuffed his play with enough characters for several dramas. At just $10 a ticket (and no, that isn't just for seniors and students!) and even with fine tuning needed, it's …
Justin Tanner's 60-minute non-stop laugh-a-thon
This seems to be a season that has the angel of death multi-tasking all over the place. Now comes Tina Howe's Chasing Manet, a somewhat too quirky fable about two octogenarians in what John Donne called death's twilight.
You owe it to yourself to get a dose of this feel good musical tonic. It's likely to be your one chance to be able to say that you've danced on a Broadway stage.
With crisp direction by John Rando and a megawatt performance by Nancy Opel this ultimately feels a bit recycled, but fortunately, it's been created from some quality pre-used materials
If there is one quality that distinguishes Durang's comically barbed diatribes against society, it comes from a kind of guileless sophistication that is almost child-like.
Watching Being Audrey reminds one of sitting in a high school auditorium watching youthful thespians trying to perform in roles beyond their abilities. They have bucketfuls of energy, but they're just not up to the job. Anyone interested in seeing the magic of the real Audrey Hepburn should stay home and rent a few of her films.
Plenty of reasons to be pleased with this restructured for Broadway look at blue collar life and excessive beauty-consciousness.
With the help of her fantastic cast, director Lisa Peterson keeps the play moving at breakneck speed but still gives the audience time to empathize and laugh
The translation itself could be credited as a star as it puts a snappy 21st century edge around Ionesco's mid 20th century text
The theme of this frantically busy new musical announces itself in the title. But, happiness, dear reader, is not just accepting the inevitable and predictable ending but seeing the last pas…
Poet Anne Larson has married three great playwrights' takes on the blood-soaked House of Atreas saga into an intriguing triptych
Jez Butterworth's play in its European opening at the Almeida
Moliere has lost none of his relevancy. Take away the rhymed couplets and the period dress and set, and you have a thoroughly modern play
