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Dan Hoyle uses his experiences in Nigeria to portray warlords, militants, oil workers, prostitutes and the American Ambassador to Nigeria, among many others in n this, his third solo show.
Despite its Pulitzer-prize credentials, Beth Henley's melodrama, Crimes of the Heart about three sisters whose bonds are tightened and heightened by their dysfunctional history, never struck…
Reddin's brief play is not so much about surviving monumental mechanical failure as it is about living with the consequences of human error.
The play is structured as a musical composition. The dialogue has the texture and tempi of harmonic and dissonant solos, duets, trios as well as the point counter-point interplay of the ense…
The Donmar's triple bill of absurdist comedies spans two of NF Simpson's 1960s short plays plus a new one-act play by Michael Frayn. Douglas Hodge directs this celebration of the surreal and…
One of the pleasures of Paul Osborn's Morning's at Seven is its old photo album view of small town life in 1922. But there are other reasons this period piece with its rambling plot built on…
If it is true that imitation is the highest form of flattery, then the new Summer Shorts series at 59E59 has a lot of good things to say about EST's long-running short play institution, the …
Indeed "age cannot wither" Tina Packer. Berkshire theater goers who have watched her and the company she founded thirty years ago have experienced her infinite variety as a charismatic leade…
It is rather engaging to have a musical which has a theme one can engage with intellectually. Given some investment, this Weidman-Shire-Maltby, Jr. collaboration could continue its journey e…
There are times when I wish George Bernard Shaw had suffered from writer's block... However Saint Joan is one of his best and with the acting talent of the remarkable Anne-Marie Duff, it is …
Sure it's a period piece. And sure, it takes a strong lead to put over the somewhat simplistic "let's open a school" version of the popular "let's put on a play" plot and to avoid tarnishing…
A gripping and still topical 17 year-old play.
Somewhere toward the middle of The Black Eyed both play and production seem to receive an electrical charge. The writing becomes vivid, and the production receives a jolt of energy from the …
There's no political or larger moral message as in The Vagina Monologues, but it's funnier and more entertaining.
The English weather has been particularly unseasonable this year but even the rain and cold could not dampen enthusiasm for the Open Air Theatre in Regent's Park production of the Gershwins'…
Written in 1958 just before The Caretaker, Pinter's dark comedy The Hothouse presents a sinister version of the civil service, full of murderous machinations and black humour. Ian Rickson's …
Like Connie Fisher who was so cast as Maria in The Sound of Music, Lee Mead was actually already professional. He is a good choice, very handsome and very charming, as well as singing sweetl…
Since this is the first musical at Williamstown's handsome and comfortable new Nikos Stage, I wish I could say it's a stand up and cheer first. However, despite a cast featuring performers w…
Berkshire Theatre Festival's second stage is ideally suited for this intimately scaled epic and director Marc Geller has staged it so that these women's difficult lives play out with plenty …
With his twinkling eyes, enthusiastic manner, self-deprecating grin and charming accent, Aidan Dooley is the consummate Irish storyteller. Dooley uses all these talents as both author and st…
Combine two parts Dr. Phil and one part medieval mystery play, shake well, pour into a cold glass and you've got Wendy McLeod's Sin.
A far less expensive production than the original, this Seussical the remix, relies on the candy-bright energy of its performers and the audience's imagination to create the wonderful world …
For Orlando Bloom's West End stage debut, met with glee by many screaming fans, he has chosen a down-to-earth, social drama set in a coal mining town in the north of England.
