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Despite its literary undepinnings, this is far from being stolid, intellectual, and dry and these in many ways enviable lives are seen through the frame created by book writer and contributi…
Barrington Stage's farceurs have a fine time with the gimmick that drives this farce. They totter around, miss getting entangled with each other and colliding with furniture by inches that s…
For souffles like Blithe Spirit to rise, it's been the directors who give Coward's light touch free reign with attempting to give it a new, more up-to-date sensibility who have been most suc…
A large banner above the entrance to the Abingdon Theatre asks audience members (who have to carefully navigate their way past a working pinball machine) to "please excuse my Southern accent…
This is indeed a sad tale illustrating the way the Nazi horrors scarred not only its survivors but their children.
Warning: Marrying Italian women may be hazardous to your social life. This, it would seem, is the only message of Lella Heins' new play.
The Broadway hit hits the ground running at the Old Globe.
The Vietnam War continues to spur antagonism between those who fought in it and those who stayed at home. It remains an on-going source of our country's cultural and political battles. So it…
The drama now has the sparkle and intensity that was missing from the version I saw previously. That sparkle is supplied by its three firecracker actors.
Though the thematic messages are still relevant, the play seems to have not aged as well as we could have hoped.
Expectations were high. Expectations are surpassed. Patti Lupone triumphs incomparably as Rose.
Williamstown Theatre Festival has gone all out to create synergy with a neighbor for its second world premiere at the Nikos Stage.
Xanadu is campy, goofy and silly in the extreme but also irresistibly disarming in its incarnation as a giddy and light Broadway musical.
You won't miss Shirley Booth, the original and inimitable Lola or Burt Lancaster, who played Doc unforgettably on screen, in this stunning revival of William Inge's play.
It's such a barrage of hot-button topics that it would be a welcome relief for it to end a couple of plot twists sooner.
Given a theatrical heavyweight like David Suchet and a story which implicates the Catholic Church in a conspiracy like The Da Vinci Code and you have a crowd pulling recipé.
The latest theatrical bombshell from Tracy Letts (author of such corrosive dramas as Killer Joe and Bug plays like a highlights collection from dysfunctional family classics.
The adventurous and audacious theater collective known as Waterwell, which creates its works collaboratively, takes as the starting point for its new piece a speech given by Martin Luther Ki…
The play lives not only as a nostalgic depiction of another era but as an ironic reminder that corrupt politicians have not gone the way of Underwood typewriters, feodora hats and spectator …
Calvin Berger doesn't have blockbuster written all over it the way The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee did, but it's an appealing little show that may with some trimming well have a life in other small theaters or schools.
When at its best, Morning Star uses the family dynamic to great advantage; when at its worst, the melodrama of the plot becomes predictable and silly, and at these times the company is hard pressed to keep the audience's disbelief suspended.
The delicately toned production by the Potomac Theatre Project builds its power throughout the performance, and delivers Howard Barker's ambitious and thoughtful script with considerable eff…
What could be more fun than watching two formidable 40-something women attempt to maintain a lifelong friendship despite having personalities that couldn't be more out-of-synch?
There are eminently quotable bits of dialogue in Damian Lanigan's absorbing debut play about a fictional string quartet founded by and named for its first violin player, James Bradley
