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Ultimately, this is a comic melodrama with more comedy than drama, but that doesn't mean that Boucicault didn't have some serious issues hiding among the pratfalls.
The show cleverly combines Lillian Henley's cabaret-influenced piano music, Paul Barritt's film and animation, and live performance by Suzanne Andrade (who also directs) and Esme Appleton in…
Cahn's personable manner and countenance do manage to sustain his dramatic endeavor.
Ives' departure from more comic undertakings is bursting with intellectual ideas sure to provoke post show discussion high-minded. Happily this doesn't keep it from being highly entertaining.
While some wisps of wit and honest feelings seep into the libretto from time to time, the dialogue and the relationships rely heavily on the mix of corny kitsch mock sincerity that these day…
Director and conductor Bergeret does his best to update the show by substituting current references for more obscure ones. Thus the men in drag sing Bernstein's "I Feel Pretty," and there's …
With the stellar pairing of stage experts Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker, there is little escaping the sense that this Much Ado will be the stuff of theatrical history.
A pluperfect ensemble, under the brilliant direction of Joe Olivieri, has brought this somewhat silly old chestnut to sparkling life at Venice's Pacific Resident Theatre.
Pumpgirl, which was one of four recipients of a special Susan Smith Blackburn Prize in 2007, is only Abbie Spallen's second play. But her startling imagery, multi-dimensional characters and …
For those who love Beckett, this production fills every expectation. For those unfamiliar with the playwright, they are an excellent introduction. But don't expect to leave smiling.
This Steppenwolf Theatre world premiere proves that Roberto Aguirre-Sacasa can create solid stagecraft with a moral center.
If you can only take in one Christmas show in London this year, let it be this magnificent staging of Charles Dickens' sprawling, sentimental novel is unmissable.
Director Gary Griffin's astute eye for character is reprised in this production.
More literary than dramatic, Griffiths' agile writing, with its alternate boldness and nuance, evidences a love of language worthy of a poet.
Brian Childers has Kaye down pat: the theatrical poses, the delicate prima ballerina hand movements, the little nod of the head.
King Edward's problem was in fact, and remains so in this play, less a case of homophobia than that of a leader blinded to common sense by a sense of entitlement to do as he wished by virtue…
It shouldn't take forty years to figure out what a play is about unless it is by Harold Pinter. However, a superb cast, under the direction of Daniel Sullivan, has made the task a lot easier…
Directors Dan Barnes and Leta Tremblay, with the assistance of choreographer Alberto Peart and composer Brandon Barr, almost create a send-up of film noir that would make Raymond Chandler bl…
The Irish Rep is doing its patriotic duty with a first rate production of the only play George Bernard Shaw set in America. It is pure Victorian melodrama but it is also quite funny, prescie…
I'm unfamiliar with Jordan Harrison's previous plays, but this ambitious undertaking that's being given a high quality world premiere at Playwrights Horizons' main stage, shows him to be a w…
Michael Grandage's mysterious production seems a fairly traditional reading of the play with only our imagination to provide us with clues as to the motivation of this unremorseful character.
David Henry Hwang's Yellow Face is not so much a case of digging up the corpses of the Miss Saigon casting dispute and his failed play, Face Value, but a continuing chapter in his focus - so…
I assumed my first Living Theatre production would be, well, better. But while Malina's performance as Maudie is excellent, the material she has to work with is not.
This delectable confection is hardly going topple Tom Sawyer or Huckleberry Finn from the top tier of Mark Twain's oeuvre, but it's great fun.
