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Things certainly seem to have come full circle in the 80 years since the script was written for L.A. Theater Works' The Great Tennessee Monkey Trial, now at the Annenberg.
Well, it's no wonder The Fantasticks has been running since dinosaurs roamed Broadway. It's a musical full of charm and sweetness and hummable songs with clever lyrics, and for his directing…
People in the audience were audibly weeping. Eugene O'Neill's lush last play, the much-revived A Moon for the Misbegotten, still works, although this celebrated production, transferred from London's Old Vic Theatre, seemed disappointingly stagey and unsubtle.
The weird Chekhov Lizardbrain, which Pig Iron Theatre Company opened Friday night, falls somewhere to the side of farce, a mile or so from vaudeville, and pretty close to making sense.
Didion's magical thinking strengthened her resolve to appear impenetrable, and when emotion finally comes, it's hollow. In her brain, she has thoroughly massaged her grief. On stage, though,…
Chalk up another win for corporate branding.
Media behemoth Clear Channel's live-ent division, Live Nation, is renaming South Street's Theatre of Living Arts - once Andre Gregory's experimental theater, later a brilliant rep-film cinema - to Fillmore Philadelphia, beginning with the April 27 Todd Rundgren show.
Anton, meet Groucho: Pig Iron's "Chekhov Lizardbrain," like all its productions, crawls with classical and fringy ideas, mad movement, and clowning beyond words.
The Prince Music Theater has landed Liza Minnelli to headline its annual gala on May 15 - the first time since 1988 she's appeared here.
The look at American gay life by versatile playwright Terrence McNally - given a world premiere by the Philadelphia Theatre Company last spring - is everything in New York that it was not in…
It'll be a long time before they ring down the final curtain on Curtains. The new Broadway murder-mystery musical, which opened Thursday night with a front-line cast, is 2 1/2-hours of old-f…
Talk Radio is caught in an irony: It's an hour-and-40-minute study of America's most grotesque marketplace of ideas, where the merchants are shoddy and the shelves are empty, and what the pl…
Prelude to a Kiss itself works on two levels.
Spring Awakening, presented by EgoPo, is about the springtime of life, and it is clear that being a teenager a century ago was no easier than being a teenager nowadays.
The play is often funny and takes stabs at being poignant, but like the callers streaming through its single act, it's ultimately hollow.
Journey's End is a gem, little played in recent decades.
ATHENS, Greece - I met up quite by chance with Dionysus, the god of theater and wine, among other things.
