Life with Father, about a sexist patriarch and submissive wife, holds the record for the longest-running non-musical play in New York. Now, 75 years after it premiered, Mark Lawson…
BroadwayWorld has just learned that Frank Langella is ill and will be out for today's2pmfinalperformance.The performance will take place as scheduled with Mr. Langella's understudy, Anthony …
By Steve Schonberg (@CntrOnTheAisle) / Video credit: Claude Apollon "I have five daughters," Tevye says. "Five!" With Bartlett Sher's fantastic revival of Fiddler on the Roof currently on Br…
Ustinov, BathFlorian Zeller's Molière award-winning play, starring Lia Williams and Kenneth Cranham, takes us into the confused world of an elderly man and his carer daughterThere is usuall…
As the musical Hamilton prepares for the Tony awards, Trinity church " where Alexander himself is buried " welcomes newly enthusiastic visitorsThere may be no better time to stumble on an ag…
A simple story, told with truth, can far outweigh a bloated epic with grander aspirations. Playwright Julie Mayer Myatt travels a short but meaningful distance with her one-act play
Public Theater, New YorkThis exuberant and original new musical mashes up genres from rap to operetta, creating a flawed but glorious portrait of the face on the $10 billIn a letter to Georg…
Ever realize how many years Frank Langella has been giving "the performance of a lifetime"? Critics keep trotting out that old chestnut, and he keeps calling them on it.
They said it about…
Maggie Lacey as Nora Helmer and John Douglas Thompson as Torvald Helmer in a scene from "A Doll's House" (Photo credit: Gerry Goodstein) Was Swedish playwright August Strindberg a misogynist…
by ED RAMPELL
first play I saw in Los Angeles upon my return from Corsier-sur-Vevey, Switzerland, was Eugene O'Neill's The Hairy Ape, playing at the Odyssey Theatre through July 17. Thes…
Hamilton's Christopher Jackson on being up against his co-stars for the Tony, playing a military man and the most important decision to be made before Tony night.
At 78, three-time Tony winner Frank Langella is enjoying one of his best years ever, with juicy TV roles as a Russian spy in The Americans and a racist Southern senator in HBO’s adapta…
The Father, Florian Zeller's very good play (in very good translation by Christopher Hampton) is worth seeing both for the tricks it plays on the audience and for Frank Langella's rivet…
It's not clear who gets the last word in either The Father or A Doll's House, the two dramas being performed in repertory at Theatre for a New Audience. But with productions this gripping an…
by JK Clarke A double-header of Scandinavian 19th century dramas would ordinarily be less than enticing to anyone but ardent fans of classical theater, as …
As Boomers become more of the theater-going public, we see more stories about how we are becoming a nation of caretakers of parents and grandparents. But the play The Father depicts increasi…
