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Two River Theater Company's production of "Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living in Paris" comes through as a moving and entertaining evening.
Neil Simon's "Laughter on the 23rd Floor," being staged in Croton Falls, was inspired by Mr. Simon's early television career working for Sid Caesar.
Mr. Conaway, who earned praise as Kenickie, John Travolta's bad-boy sidekick in the film version of "Grease," was known to have an addiction to alcohol and drugs.
A lovely evening doesn't stay that way in Yasmina Reza's play "God of Carnage," now at the George Street Playhouse in New Brunswick.
It is hard to think of another stage musical that piles one blissful number on top of another with such escalating force, and the production at the Gateway Playhouse serves it up well.
Judy Rosenblatt, starring in this revival about Peggy Guggenheim, a rich woman who did what she wanted, has the most important quality for the solo role: attitude.
"Italian American Reconciliation," at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, is an operatic comic romance about a man who regrets divorcing his wife.
"Italian American Reconciliation," at the Long Wharf Theater in New Haven, is an operatic comic romance about a man who regrets divorcing his wife.
"Beyond Therapy," Christopher Durang's absurdist comedy about searching for a love connection through the personals, is the season-opener at the Westport Country Playhouse.
When "Curtains," about a murder mystery on the set of a show, made it to Broadway, its star won a Tony Award. Now, it's at the Paper Mill Playhouse.
"Boston Marriage," a three-woman play set in Victorian New England, is not characteristic Mamet.
Matt Schatz's play about the designing of the World Trade Center comes with a shadow of doom and futility.
The Crossroads Theater's new production of "A Raisin in the Sun" is as strong, textured and unrelenting as it must have been when it opened on Broadway in 1959.
The leader of a suburban book club sells it to television as a reality show in "Reading Under the Influence: The 'Real' Westchester Women's Book Club."
The play "A Steady Rain," focused on two regular-guy big-city police officers, runs through May 8 in Hartford.
In George Bernard Shaw's domestic comedy, written 15 years after Ibsen's feminist shocker "A Doll's House," love, practicality and social equality in Victorian times are explored.
Andrew Gerle's play, based on John Marchese's memoir, tells of how a very different father and son work together to renovate a home.
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" at the Paper Mill Playhouse is a colorful, cartoonish version of the musical set in ancient Rome.
"Romeo and Juliet" by the Yale Repertory Theater is given a contemporary feel and sometimes seems influenced by "West Side Story."
"A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum" at the Paper Mill Playhouse is a colorful, cartoonish version of the musical set in ancient Rome.
"Romeo and Juliet" by the Yale Repertory Theater is given a contemporary feel and sometimes seems influenced by "West Side Story."
Although he is mostly heard rather than seen, Jesse is the focus of and the reason for Lisa Loomer's "Distracted," now having its New Jersey premiere. This is a Dreamcatcher Repertory Theate…
"Dancing at Lughnasa," at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, tells the story of five unmarried Irish sisters in 1936.
"Dancing at Lughnasa," at the Schoolhouse Theater in Croton Falls, tells the story of five unmarried Irish sisters in 1936.
"Divine Rivalry," at Hartford Stage, stylishly recreates a tale of dueling murals, pitting Leonardo da Vinci against Michelangelo.
