3,986 stories from CurtainUp
The medley of songs at the end of the show will undoubtedly have you singing and dancing in your seat and for a moment you could possibly believe you were at a Take That concert itself.
This relatively rare Ibsen play gets a wonderfully nuanced production from Anthony Page at the Almeida with magnificent performances all round.
With Jonathan Kent at the director's helm, we can be sure of a polished production with brilliant performances.
This production under the fine direction of Joe Discher for the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey is enabled principally by the excellence of its two lead performers, Robert Cuccioli and Jor…
The second play in the LaBute trilogy flies to London, just as the concluding one opens off-Broadway.
Philip Ridley's new play explores the psychological warfare of a family in disagreement about the truth of its past and present.
Another from the Brits Off Broadway Festival
Berkshire Theatre's second stage starts the season with a terrific production of Harold Pinter's breakthrough play.
The chorus character ends the play with a sly "it's comforting to know that high-muckety-mucks today would never think of engaging in such skullduggery." We may not all leave the Irish Rep c…
Port Authority is a chance to see a McPherson play that represents the playwright's literary roots.
This amazingly well written debut will have artistic directors queuing up to produce 20-year-old Polly Stenham's play.
Kathleen Chalfont is unforgettable.
Scott Schwartz has taken Cather's novel and made of it a drama with music.
Roberto Aguirre-Sacas has the imagination dramatic savvy to give a potent facelift to a familiar situation, and make it not only blaze with erotic tension but reveal the effect of the legacy…
Edward Hall's production of Terence Rattigan's 1952 play, with Greta Scacchi playing the suicidal Hester Collyer. Its theme of unrequited love remains ever pertinent.
It's a not unfamiliar set-up: A foreigner stumbles into a place with whose people he's had no previous contact and whose language he cannot speak. The language barrier beefs up both serious …
With his pince-nez and walrus mustache, Michael O. Smith looks so much like Roosevelt it's hard not to gasp as he marches on stage.
Full of black wit, the play has a darkly playful attitude to a society in flux and is unafraid to plumb to grisly, cannibalistic depths.
One does not necessary insist on a play such as this being completely accessible. Whatever it is, I'm still thinking about it. Hopefully future audiences will also find something to think ab…
David Greenspan is certainly true to the spirit of Aristophanes and his times. But he mixes Aristophanes' play with so many famous people who populated the two thousand plus years since the …
There are two more series to give Ensemble Studio Theatre a chance to show that they are incubating the worthwhile new talent of the future.
This is a classic production of a classic play, with excellent writing and a strong cast.
Given that Chekhov is Chekhov, now and forever, let me conclude that meeting Chekhov either halfway or completely reconsidered with a virtually new text is probably better than not meeting C…
