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J. T. Rogers undertook a challenge to put this complex, remote situation into a perspective that could relate to the experience of one American family. Tension and danger is implicit as the …
The musical had a decent run in London in 1998/1999 but it has returned in 2007 in a remixed version to a new audience who love the musical through watching the movie on dvd.
It's an oddly intoxicating show. While there is almost nothing in the way of plot, or character development, and with only a few traces of the original Greek myth left to guide us, the aural…
With comedians known to have their dark side when not performing, and the advance publicity hinting that one of the partners moved in the direction of Lenny Bruce's pitch-black realism, it w…
Jack Klugman funny as ever in George Street revival.
If the play remains problematic, there is consolation in the Shavian ambivalence. It is in recognzing that Shaw was his own Pygmalion, and his play, so headstrong, was his Galatea.
It's even grittier than Dutch Heart of Man and, while it has some of the sweetness of Jack Goes Boating, it's as different in tone from that working class New York version of the screwball c…
The characters in Sarah Treem's A Feminine Ending are engaging and real, and made even more so by the actors portraying them.
This play's title could do without the last four words, since the games these on-line teen-age boys play could be played by any sex at any age.
Laura Eason's play is a clever, often poignant look at the process of grieving.
This is a fairly vapid play masquerading as social commentary. However, it turns out that the play is a lot like Jamie - smarter than it first appears.
Mamet's play about Florida real estate salesmen comes "home" to London and with a stellar cast of top notch actors, James Macdonald's production not only pulls it off, it convinces as well a…
Kicking off the brand new season of a brand new company at the Theatre Royal Haymarket, Jonathan Kent directs a brilliantly contemporary version of William Wycherley's restoration comedy.
In contrast to Fish's more completely stripped down Hamlet, this production is a dazzler.
The ability to see clearly and write about it are Jane Anderson's priorities and she's rarely done it better than in this play, commissioned by the Geffen and given one of their strongest ev…
A lot has happened since F. Murray Abraham played the audiciously gay Chris for whom sex is "just a way of saying hello" in Terrence McNally's 1975 farce, The Ritz. But with the AIDS crisis more controlled (at least in the U.S.), and gay characters prominently featured on stage or screen no longer novel or shocking, the Roundabout Theater Company decided the time was ripe for audiences to once again respond to the mistaken identity, door slamming silliness of French farce à la McNally.
There are a number of odd things about this production under the hit and miss direction of Gordon Greenberg. While many in the cast have presumably been picked to help fans recall the fondly…
I have no quarrel with the idea of giving a more contemporary staging to Chekhov - or Shakespeare, or Moliere, or any other great playwright. Unfortunately, Arthur Giron's interpretation of …
In a week when the headlines told us that Britain is spending £10 billion a year on gambling, this play about poker and gambling and addiction is very pertinent.
Margaret Cho's The Sensuous Woman is a burlesque styled vaudeville revue that is all about sex, sexuality, sexual preferences, transsexuals, pansexuals, homosexuals and sexual homos. As conceived by and starring Cho and featuring a few others, this outspoken unconventional revue, under the direction of Randall Rapstine, is a mixed bag of self-congratulatory striptease and stultifying comedy routines.
When I add a list of a playwright's previous works to a review, I usually end up re-reading those reviews. If there is any link that connect my Theresa Rebeck list, it's that each play points to a writer who keeps coming up with original subjects. The only thing repetitious is that the dialogue is consistently smart and often very funny. Mauritius is no exception.
Ciarán O'ReillIy, who also directed the revival of Keane's The Field, has downplayed the dated and melodramatic elements and highlighted the timeless theme of how the poverty can make…
