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Tom Stoppard's "Travesties," at the McCarter Theater Center in Princeton, is an elegant but highly challenging production with verbal gems.
A new production of "Damn Yankees" at the Paper Mill Playhouse is a first-rate, frequently thrilling revival of the age-old story of a man who sold his soul to the Devil.
The Schoolhouse Theater's harrowing production about alcoholism, directed by Pamela Moller Kareman, follows J. P. Miller's original TV script, not the 1962 film.
Half of "Rated P for Parenthood" at the Westside Theater is sweet and wistfully funny, and the other half is a demographically opportunistic mash-up.
Mr. Kissel also wrote books on Broadway subjects, including a book of New York City theater walks and a biography of the producer David Merrick.
In "Poetic License," at 59E59 Theaters, a father is about to be named poet laureate of the United States while his daughter's boyfriend has something other than romance up his sleeve.
"Good Goods," by Christina Anderson, is being staged at Yale Repertory Theater in New Haven through Feb. 25.
The George Street Playhouse's production of "Red" may be a two-man, one-act play about the painter Mark Rothko and his assistant, but quiet and reflective it is not.
"Jitney," one of August Wilson's 10 plays about the 20th-century African-American experience, is at the Two River Theater Company.
"Sty of the Blind Pig" at Hartford Theaterworks is a solid, poignant production that feels like a tableau vivant of saddened people left behind.
"Macbeth" is fast-forwarded to 1969, but without much success.
"Boeing-Boeing" is at the Paper Mill Playhouse. The appeal of the play today is the amusing look at the peculiar customs of a misguided era.
In Cate Ryan's "Picture Box," a black man who helped raise a white child was truly considered one of the family.
A piece of art that might be one of Jackson Pollock's acclaimed drip paintings brings together an unlikely couple in "Bakersfield Mist," presented by the New Jersey Repertory Company.
Neil Bartlett has adapted "A Christmas Carol" for the stage using only Dickens's original text; the Shakespeare Theater of New Jersey performs it through Jan. 1 at Drew University.
"Irving Berlin's White Christmas," based on the 1954 movie musical and featuring Lorna Luft in a supporting role, runs at the Paper Mill Playhouse in Millburn, N.J., through Dec. 24.
Brian Dennehy is back at the Long Wharf Theater in a one-act play, "Krapp's Last Tape," by Samuel Beckett.
Mr. Pockriss, who wrote the music for midcentury pop hits like "Itsy Bitsy Teenie Weenie Yellow Polka Dot Bikini," also worked in musical theater for decades.
The Finch family is back in court for "To Kill a Mockingbird" in Madison.
Madeleine George's clever new play, now having its world premiere at Two River Theater Company, opens a window onto what one character in the play likes to call "alternative kinship structur…
"Phaedra Backwards," in its world premiere, is Marina Carr's reworking of the Minotaur legend, starting from the end.
In "Sistas: The Musical" pop songs punctuate the stories of a group of black women.
In the Irish Repertory Theater production of "Molly Sweeney," the cast of three is focused on surgery that could help a blind woman see.
The playwright Sarah Ruhl used a fresh, "literal" translation of Anton Chekhov's 110-year-old drama "Three Sisters," now at the University Theater at Yale.
A boy who had a rough start in life captures the attention of a social worker he meets by chance in "Seed," a play by Radha Blank at the National Black Theater.
