3,986 stories from CurtainUp
Two African-American women flee to Europe and reinvent themselves by forming a singing duo. Success comes - but with a dash of bitters.
Joel Gross combines fact and fiction to create a fascinating and enlightening account of the two decades in French history and the life of the queen leading up to her death and the downfall …
Like the best absurdist playwrights, Durang fills his socio-political themes with jokes and levity. It's best if you let him explain it all for you.
What started off as a cutsey little self-referential festival entry became a sassy, cult-like Off Broadway musical that has plopped down, with no added flash and trash, onto the Great White …
Takes a high school a cappella championship and turns it into winning comedy and drama.
Not only an absurdist look at politics. It is also an examination of the theater, particularly politics as a theatrical enterprise.
Thanks to John Rando's inspired direction, Encores! has brought out the show's best while resisting the temptation to make meaningless improvements.
Shepard wrote this play for Stephen Rea, and the Irish actor delivers a remarkable performance in return.
Northeast premiere of Karen Zacarias's comedy at Berkshire Theatre Festival.
Tanya Barfield's historical play commissioned by The Center Theatre Group is an explosive mixture of fact and satire.
An invaluable new reference from Oxford Press.
David Harrower's play at the Chester Theater
Michael Frayn's clever juxtaposition of Everyman lines with the story of Max Reinhardt's own life seems an example of the crossword compiler getting more fun out of the crossword that the so…
An at times painful and violent comedy of two clashing relationships, featuring a foursome of famous literary personalities: DH Lawrence, his wife Frieda and Katherine Mansfield and her part…
Gregory Burke's acclaimed play comes to London
Bock and Harnick's musical opens main stage season at
Williamstown Theatre Festival
As produced by Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey, most of our attention will be on the extraordinarily fine performance of Daniel Davis in the title role.
Shakespeare & Company's music-infused version of a rarely produced comedy.
The play, written by Jovanka Bach, a first-generation immigrant from Montenegro, might have offered interesting insights. Instead, like a bad soap opera, it just goes on and on in a never-en…
Playwright Anthony Neilson offers a cold and frank look at love or, in this case, its absence.
