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Take a boozing, filthy, middle-aged tramp, a teenage boy hiding from paramilitary assassins, an aging prostitute, and a scrappy transvestite and throw them together in a derelict house on th…
Finely staged and paced, acted with an exquisite balance of humor and pathos, and revelatory of the several layers of Chekhov's play, this is a production to be savored.
A good subtitle for this King Lear would be "A Play About the Humbling Experience of Growing Old". What this is not is a Lear overflowing with passion and rage. It also doesn't strike me as …
Revivals of Clifford Odets' plays in Britain are few and far between, so this staging of Awake and Sing! at the Almeida Theatre gives us a welcome chance to reassess a playwright who here is…
In this portrait of an artist in the deepest winter of her discontented decline, Thomas Kilroy has written a juicy role for an older actress. Too bad that Nell Jeffrey isn't all that memorab…
One of the most commonly produced Greek tragedies in the modern theatre, The Bacchae has never yet enjoyed a revival so full of panache, comedy and sheer energy as this.
Saroyan's irrepressibly messy but amusingly incredulous play comes back at the right time. Many of us are looking, perhaps in vain, for just this kind of nostalgic idealism.
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An aggressively militant satire that attacks corporatism, economic and social dependency on the state, and the very real and present dangers of reckless and uncontrolled consumerism. Whew! T…
From one of the smallest spaces in London to one of the biggest, Thea Sharrock's Emperor Jones makes the transition from the Gate Theatre to the National's Olivier with aplomb.
In London too casting is by public voting.
A look back at how the area's most popular theater seasons shaped up in terms of expected and unexpected successes.
Two of this area's most interesting actors, Jonathan Epstein and Tara Franklin, demonstrate the power of live theater with finely nuanced performances.
There is an artistic imperative and an academic conceit that drives Charles Mee's stunning Iphigenia 2.0, which kicks off with a vengeance a season at the Signature Theater that will be prim…
This is a Midsummer Night's Dream that is sure to keep you enchanted come mist or moonlight.
Towards the end of her life, Lillian Hellman is said to have tagged her last play, The Autumn Garden, as her favorite piece of writing. I wish I could agree with her.
In the Berkshire Theatre Festival's stimulating revival of the once scandalous Mrs. Warren's Profession, Ander Cato turns the scenery changing pauses between the conflated acts into a striki…
Despite my continuing indifference (just this side of disdain) for this persistently insipid 50s rock 'n roll musical, the renewed and refreshed revival, directed and choreographed by Kathle…
Frederich Dûrrenmatt's all too timely play about madness, science and comedy a first Center Stage Theater LAB production
The most dazzling musical of the year maintains the consistently high standard of The Boston Court Theatre in Pasadena.
