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Twenty years after its debut on Broadway, the Philadelphia premiere of David Henry Hwang's M. Butterfly is causing a flutter.
The ever-present element of fantasy heightens its sorrowful reality. Fabrik takes the audience out of flesh-and-blood existence to a world beyond time and place . . . a world of powerful emo…
It was gratifying to see so many young people in the audience that filled the Paper Mill Playhouse on opening night for this stunning revival of William Gibson's play about 20 year-old gover…
The Leopold & Loeb musical finds another life in LA.
For several years Athol Fugard has bequeathed his plays to The Fountain Theatre in Los Angeles for their American premieres. We are fortunate in having his latest, a one-hour drama based on …
Writer Russell Barr plays a Scottish drag queen, and the show is basically a long soliloquy in which he tells us of his strange and terrible life
The star of this opening season is the new theatre, The Rose in Kingston Upon Thames, but praising the theatre alone would be to take away from Peter Hall this engaging and touching producti…
Edward Bond's curious comedy, directed by Jonathan Kent and starring the formidable Eileen Atkins, is given a brilliant production at the Theatre Royal Haymarket
Under Emily Mann's splendid and focused direction, Tyne Daly and Brian Murray have only to look their looks and say their forthcoming lines to insure that all the dramatic requirements of th…
Maybe because it's a political year and cowboy president is almost a household word, to say nothing of "rock star president", this play stings like a political rally.
Chad Beckim's new play is about the holiday reunion of two brothers whose lives have taken them to different places. This reunion happens in their childhood home in rural Maine. That account…
The three travelers in Richard Abron's eponymous play have come to see the great Indian guru to find inner peace and enlightenment. In a brilliant, funny and poignant twist, the guru gives t…
No, the lonely midwestern housewife's beloved little dog Sheba will never come back. But, the play for which it was named, has at long last come back to Broadway, with an outstanding cast.
One of the first things that strikes you while watching Abi Morgan's Tender is how little tenderness there actually is in this drama.
Both Land of the Dead, which like The Mercy Seat is set in the hours just after 9/11, and Helter Skelter, which played in New York as Things We Said Today, feature a woman who is pregnant. N…
Though I recommend reading the book first, Tantalo's tight direction and the dynamic visual and sound elements go along way to make the play stand on its own
Filmmaker Ethan Coen is making his playwrighting debut with a triptych of short plays which, though admittedly "unsuccessfully tackling important questions," have successfully launched Coen'…
The play that just opened at the Rubicon Theatre in Ventura should come with a warning label: "Caution! Obfuscation ahead!"
If you've never read or seen this play, you might well go to the Pearl expecting a weighty drama about Machiavellan power politics. But you'd be wrong.
The luminous and enchanting Rosemary Harris plays Oscar and the Pink Lady, as well as others in Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt's somewhat gushy but sincerely-intended play.
Ariel Dorfman's 1983 novel from which the play now at the 59E59 theater complex is part of the Chilean-born author's trilogy of social protest works. It's a tragic fable about disappeared me…
In times of worldwide violence the temptation to revisit Greek tragedy is irresistible. Classical Theatre of Harlem's Alfred Preisser imagines Euripides' tragedy in the wreckage of Penn Stat…
As Max Bialystock in The Producers,Nathan Lane's bilked little old ladies on walkers out of their hard-earned savings. But as President Charles H. E. Smith in David Mamet's November, his sel…
With newspapers and TV broadcasts full of troubling and depressing news, you could do a lot worse than to follow Richard Hannay's opening scene resolve to find escape at the theater with "something trivial and utterly pointless." The utterly pointless but delightful The 39 Steps is sure to fill the bill.
