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Like the price of milk and bread and other staples, the cost of seeing a Transport Group show has gone up. But while no longer quite the super bargain they once were, they're still a better …
Darko Tresjnak has opted to downplay the comedic aspects and take a more operatic approach for the Theatre for a New Audience.
What is so surprising about Howard Brenton's highly entertaining new play is that it gives such a sympathetic portrait of this Old School Tory.
while it has all the earmarks of a prison story, this is very much a political play with the broader concern of examining the response of people with a bent for strong action to express thei…
Based on the series of books by Barbara Park, this show with its tuneful score, appealing characters and excellent cast is appealing for grown-ups as well as kids.
You will be amazed by the vibrant talent, the sheer pzazz of these young dancers.
Blessed with a superb Juno and Mary Boyle (Victoria Clark and Celia Keenan-Bolger) and a director for whom Irish classics are mother's milk (Gerry Hynes).
Reza returns to the theme of Art, the breakdown of civilised middle class people into primitive savagery
The stylish staging and construct lend a spark to the drama, but it somehow dims before the last scene (which is really the first scene), and neither David and Ben are interesting enough to …
What more perfect setting could there be than the Hackney Empire for this tale set in Victorian Britain of a remarkable man whose deformity and humanity brought him fame and respect?
For most of the play, it's hard to figure out who is the optimist.
The Mint's getting hold of the original playscript and producing it exactly as written is a fascinating chance to see Hemingway's signature macho males, adventurous stories and conflicted re…
LuPone has put her own unique and amazing footprint on Mama Rose. She's made the volcanic second act aria Rose's Turn an unforgettable Patti's Turn. And Laurents has managed to find new dept…
When a play begins with cursing, crude sexual jokes and someone is in his (or her) underwear, I get the feeling it may not be my cup of tea. Jason Chimonides' The Optimist has all three. But it wasn't until I'd suffered through Chris Thorn's regurgitations of half-digested adolescent knowledge and worldly cynicism as the smart and smart-ass Declan, and Matt Burns's laconic non-acting as his fraternal twin, Noel, that hope faded.
In his latest play, Adam Bock continues his search for situations to make ordinary people interesting enough to put them in a play and give them a new perspective on their un-extraordinary l…
What is different about the run of the mill plays on Iraq and this one is that its author looks at the grass roots rather than at the political figures who headed up the operation of war.
The 1985 movie starring Cher and Eric Stoltz in the true story of a boy with a genetic condition that deforms his face into a lion's mask and his mother, a biker chick with a drug problem, i…
Playwright Simon Farquhar and these actors insure that you'll remember Keith, Shazza Mundo and Scobie long after you leave the theater.
Any search for deeper meaning will definitely prove fruitless and spoil the fun.
Don't be surprised if this is a Frank Sinatra type of final show. After all as long as public figures continue to misbehave, their peccadillos are likely to be too tempting for Mason to resi…
What makes this friendship story unique is the fact that it exists via the exchange of letters.
