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It's a natural for director Bart de Lorenzo whose ebullient flair embellishes Margulies' take on de Rougemont's real-life story of adventure, romance and all the mysteries in between.
Enid Bagnold's charming play gets a perfect revival at the Donmar Warehouse.
Philip Ridley is a master at dispensing information a bit at a time. Although there's no real action in the play (just two people talking for 85 minutes), the stakes and the tension remain h…
Brooke Berman is a resourceful author, with a mint of modern phrases in her brain, and imagination to spare.
This more than a century old domestic comedy falling within the rubrik of Shaw's pleasant plays, manages to remain remarkably fresh, relevant and entertaining thanks to the Berkshire Theatre…
The visual delights start even before the performance begins since HERE's newly renovated space gives the innovative theater company the home it deserves.
In a fine production with first-rate acting, this is a non-prescriptive, intelligent play which looks at the root of controversial dialectics. With a full house every performance and a sizea…
Any production of Hamlet carries with it the burden of Hamlets past. This one felt at once fresh and yet faithful.
Thomas Middleton's Jacobean blood, guts and lust tragedy is compared with Shakespeare's Hamlet in the introduction written for the theatre programme, which for me is like comparing meat pie …
Another Brits Off-Broadway review.
It says something about this play's overall assets that the most appealing character is an Irish maid quaintly named Little Dorritt.
Another Doll's House, by an unknown company in a small, downtown theater — it didn't seem very promising. But I went anyway, and what I saw at the Gene Frankel Theate just knocked my s…
New Perspectives deserves high praise for meeting the challenge of this extreme bare bones approach to telling a story that covers so much ground.
Since the introduction of new age discrimination laws in the UK last year, old has become the new black, making this show timely, with its combined age cast of over 1000 years and a plot dep…
Theater Breaking Through Barriers gives this Gurney play a solid production that neither surprises nor disappoints.
Everyone's favorite mutating carnivorous plant has taken root at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
A must-see for the literary university generation of the late sixties and anyone else who wants to reflect on what might have been: lost youth, lost ideals and women you have lost and what e…
A loving tribute to a very specific time in our collective history.
Mercedes Ruehl is as close as you can get to having the real Louise Nevelson come back from the grave. She looks the part. She sounds the part. She conveys the full flavor of Nevelson's flam…
A new play that's observant about the mutability of our relationships and how fragile people become when confronted by the unexpected.
Like a lot of political campaigns that ultimately don't bring in enough votes, this musical tries just a bit too hard to please everyone.
Carly Mensch's play, making its premiere at Second Stage Theatre Uptown is a drama in which the audience is allowed to laugh at suffering characters who behave in foolish, often self-destruc…
At first the lower cased title seems more pretentious than meaningful. But once you've watched how an ill-conceived remark, repeated out of context detonates the relationships of reasons to …
