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While Kim's adaptation is deft and occasionally poetic, much of Chang's staging is blunt and prosaic. Not every actor here is up to snuff. But the spirit that animates this production at its…
The updated double bill that kicked off Albee's unofficial 80th-birthday season last night at Second Stage Theatre, is a thoroughly satisfying package of jagged-edged provocation.
The dialogue crackles and the tension runs high in director Pam MacKinnon's take on this unnerving tale of an unexpected meeting on a park bench in Central Park.
Alas, something's wrong in Transylvania when the only thing in stitches is the creature's face.
"Things We Want," which The New Group opened last night, is a raucous, sentimental, quick-witted domestic comedy that takes a lot of familiar elements and makes them perilously enjoyable.
"Ohio State Murders" is rendered as an evocative, gem-like memory play, even if the seed of that memory is closer to a throbbing bruise than to a gem.
"The Glorious Ones," inspired by Francine Prose's 1974 novel, turns out to be an overextended but pithy little valentine to the twilight of improvisation - the moment before those tyrannical…
Yet for a work described as Stoppard's most personal, "Rock 'n' Roll" feels strangely distant - as if, this time, his wit and ever-dazzling erudition actually are being used to throw us off …
In fact, this one is not even a horror show. It is, however, horrible.
David Leveaux has directed a big, old-fashioned revival of Edmond Rostand's big old 19th century heartbreaker, full of swashbuckling gascons and dangerous noblemen, fops and ruffians, and an…
"Hamlet" effectively weds two strains of the company's work. It proves such a remarkably strong marriage, in fact, that the show ends up resonating as more than just a "Hamlet" for our fast-…
Far from conjuring multiple, interlocking levels of reality, "Spain" fails mainly on every plane.
The play, which lasts a little more than an hour, feels curt and oddly stingy. Perhaps it is time to bring back the double bill.
But while this intimate show has multimedia production values most small theaters only dream of, and it's crisply directed by "Avenue Q" director Jason Moore, the best news about "Speech & D…
Palminteri is a fine mimic and re-creates all the people who shaped his life with the confidence and affection of the man who lived it.
But is this new enough or deep enough to justify a Broadway show? After years inside the complexities of the "Sopranos," do we have to ask?
