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Few shows strive as literally to bring the audience into the experience, and that's what accounts for much of its continuing vitality.
Though Anders Cato has added some effective extra vaudevillian touches to Beckett's already heavy borrowing from classic movie clowns like Charlie Chaplin, Laurel and Hardy and the Marx Brot…
Although the play ends with a question mark, Lamos has nailed down its comical edge without losing a sense of the desperation and sadness at its core.
This series once again takes its cue from the long running EST One-Act Marathon Series. Unfortunately, this year's playlets gets off to a disappointing start.
If old is in, so is this triptych at New World Stages.
With Rufus Norris directing, the piece had a good reception at the Royal Court in 2000. Those reviews are probably the main reason for this revival at the Duke of York's, but producers would…
David Ives new take on Feydeau's classic farce at Williamstown.
A working class study of Sisyphean Hell at the Chester Theater.
A solo musical theater piece starring Mary Testa, workshopping at Barrington Stage.
Australian Joanna Murray-Smith's comedy is based on a real life incident in the life of her compatriot, the feminist, academic and writer Germaine Greer.
It's hard to imagine how this show could be well acted. On the other hand, it's hard to imagine why an accomplished actor would want to be associated with this production. It's even harder t…
John Douglas Thompson's Othello is definitely the star of the Shakespeare & Company production.
Theresa Rebeck has not only written a terrific new comedy about the craziness that's part of putting on a show, but she's given Franz Kafka, the neurotic who captured the psychic dread of ex…
Richard Nelson's academic, but by no means elementary, excursion into Anglophilia is making a fine comeback.
Many enjoyable moments that even the blatantly unsatisfying ending does not destroy. Too bad it doesn't hold together as either comedy or serious drama.
This literate, funny yet poignant play has enough going for it even without the surprise element.
What this musical has first and foremost, is action: magical disappearances and witty exchanges.
Director Michael Evan Haney has five capable actors playing more than thirty roles in the globe-trotting yarn, as compactly adapted by Mark Brown at the Irish Rep.
