416 stories by "Anita Gates"
Ari Brand, who has a starring role in the Off Broadway adaptation of Chaim Potok's "My Name Is Asher Lev," talks about the play and his "Broadway Bound" disappointment three years ago.
Lonette McKee stars in "Sowa's Red Gravy," a sassy show devoted to life's pleasures.
In "Venus in Fur," by David Ives, a seemingly idiotic actress arrives late to an audition and ends up turning the tables on an arrogant theater director.
"One Slight Hitch," a play by the comedian Lewis Black, is having its New Jersey premiere at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
Phylicia Rashad and the cast she directs have superlative material to work with, but they find new richness in the relationships and individual hearts of the Younger family in "A Raisin in t…
Randy Sharp's "Last Man Club," set during the Dust Bowl of the 1930s, looks at depression and hope.
"Satchmo at the Waldorf," based on a biography of Louis Armstrong by Terry Teachout, opened in New Haven on Oct. 3.
Wendy MacLeod's sensitive comic drama "The Water Children" has been updated and includes references to the likes of John Boehner and Rick Santorum.
"American Night: The Ballad of Juan José," at the Yale Repertory Theater, isn't exactly a play or musical; it feels like an absurdist history pageant.
"Vita and Virginia," a play about the relationship between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West that is adapted from two decades of their correspondence, is at Luna Stage in West Orange.
Suzan-Lori Parks directed "Topdog/Underdog," her Pulitzer Prize play, in the shining first production of the 2012-13 season of the Two River Theater Company in Red Bank.
"Sounding Beckett," directed by Joy Zinoman, features three Samuel Beckett plays written rather late in his life.
"Harbor," at the Westport Country Playhouse, starts as a horror story of houseguests who swear they are staying only one night but refuse to leave, then the tale takes surprising turns.
Keith Lee Grant directs an intimate chamber version of "Dreamgirls," Michael Bennett's 1981 R&B musical about the rise of a 1960s girl group.
The message of "Cougar the Musical" is that relationships between older women and younger men are a great idea.
Dani Vetere's play is about an archaeologist whose professional and personal life is in disarray.
Written by Ido Bernstein, the show explores the culture of aggressive masculinity in contemporary Israel.
Mark Chrisler's solo show is presented in the form of an art history lecture about Vermeer.
The cheerfully absurdist satire comes courtesy of Trembling Stage.
A 1956 Broadway flop is given the "Mystery Science Theater 3000" treatment.
A Shakespeare work that has been performed only twice on Broadway is at the F. M. Kirby Shakespeare Theater at Drew University in Madison, N.J.
"The 39 Steps," at the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, N.Y., is a perfect example of the company's fabulous sense of play.
Karoline Leach's "Tryst," playing at TheaterWorks Hartford, City Arts on Pearl, is a story of a con man and a spinster that delivers psychological twists and turns.
"Tiny Bubbles," at the Medicine Show Theater, follows a gay man whose roommate has decided to give up drinking.
In "Tartuffe," a comedy by Molière being staged at the Westport Country Playhouse, a family struggles to free its patriarch from his thrall to a religious charlatan.
