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Playwright/novelist Michael Frayn's farce still sends audiences into hysterics
The Mabou Mines inventive A Doll's House returns to St. Ann's for a second run-- Jenny Sandman combines a review of the production with an essay on Ibsen's ouevre.
These thematically connected playlets showcase the expert comic talents of five of the Flea's resident acting company, and you don't need a stimulus bailout to pay for a ticket
A new opportunity to see Greenberg's play with a talented, acclaimed cast led by James McAvoy
Ken Stott's Eddie Carbone is more sympathetic than some I have seen giving the play an interesting balance
London welcomes the hit musical
This, cool and energetic, hip-hop Shakespeare is well worth the drive north on I-95 from Center City Philadelphia.
A double feature, one an excellent reprise from the Fringe Festival
In his brilliant new play Donald Margulies conveys contemporary attitudes towards war, the media, and relationships by his skilful choice of characters who express themselves with bite and w…
This story of dark, twisted love in the beautiful Meiji era is still an alluringly mesmeric piece, performed with pared-down, slick stylization
This is one of those plays that continues to grow on one so that it will be affective even if a production doesn't live 100% up to one's expectations. The CSC production is no exception.
I wish that the practice of adding a restoration charge had been adapted to this show's ticket sales so that a dollar or two from each ticket could go into a fund for the unemployed New York…
Hartman's play, about three generations of Jewish women, takes the audience from present-day San Francisco to pre-revolutionary Russia and back again.
With Ruined, Lynn Nottage may well nab a Pulitzer prize.
The Astoria Performing Arts Center's superb revival is making a powerful case for the far-reaching longevity of this majestic, masterful musical
The degree to which you'll be astonished by Donald Margulies's play depends on your willingness to tap into your eight-year-old self.
To explore the big questions of life, director Cara Reichel has brought together a variety of voices: a cast of fourteen, nine writers, three directors and hundreds of interviewees
This production is stuffed full of ideas and themes of civil war, sex and death but lacks cohesion as does the realm and that disintegration may be director Rupert Gould's point.
Filled with the gentle humour is something that Alan Bennett excels at.
It sounded so promising.A stellar cast and a new political play based on the journalist's dilemma
Billy Minsky's credo that the country in the midst of the 1930 depression wanted escapist undemanding fun strikes a familiar chord in today's audience
Marvin Lifschitz is a licensed psychoanalyst which makes it hard to understand why he wrote a play that turns Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, into a lecherous clown
Although fascinating at times, this may not have much interest for those whose collective Jewish memory begins with Seinfeld
I saw W. T. Roger's 8-year-old play in what was still a room full of white people and wonder how it would play in the Obama White House
