24 stories by "David Dewitt"
It's not hyperbole to suggest that Dan O'Brien's "True Story: A Trilogy" represents a distinctive achievement in theater history.
The isolated characters in "Dancing Lessons" by Mark St. Germain, one with severe Asperger's syndrome, are challenged by their limitations.
TheaterWorks stages a sweet, fast-paced production that comes off as an urban fairy tale.
"Million Dollar Quartet" explores the day that four country music legends were in the same studio at the same time.
The Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival in Garrison, in Putnam County, offers two plays, one traditional and one with a modern twist.
The richest vein running through these two plays about painting is what they say about men and how heavily ego figures into their lives.
A play uses the art of origami to ferret out some intriguing truths about love.
The director Evan Yionoulis stages a production of a fine Shakespearean mess that bends genders in addition to twisting genres.
Life merely plays on the stones of death in this tale of the star-crossed lovers, with a pit of pebbles like a grave at their feet.
From the stuff of dreams, "The Moors" at Yale Rep, a new comedy, is a play of deceit and revelations.
A six-actor production of Shakespeare's dark comedy about life's complexities and contradictions is playing at the Long Wharf Theater.
The Goodspeed Opera House's adaptation of Frank Capra's classic Christmastime film, "It's a Wonderful Life," sets the original's existential struggle to music.
Audiences have followed Hudson Stage Company's move to Armonk from Briarcliff Manor; "Other Desert Cities" is its third production.
A production of an early Alan Ayckbourn comedy at the Westport Country Playhouse delivers big laughs and a few insights.
"La Cage aux Folles" may be campy, but it succeeds because it celebrates that most traditional of values: love.
"My Name Is Asher Lev," a play based on the novel of the same name by Chaim Potok, continues through Aug. 2 at Penguin Rep Theater in Stony Point, N.Y.
In Britain during World War II, a working-class family keeps calm and carries on.
The play, at Penguin Repertory Theater in Stony Brook, imagines Walt Disney debating Igor Stravinsky part of the creative process that produced "Fantasia."
"Outside Mullingar," by John Patrick Shanley, a 2014 nominee for the Tony Award for best play, is being presented by the Hudson Stage Company.
Brecht's "Chalk Circle" explores the strong temptation of virtue despite the pull of expediency.
An experiment becomes a metaphor for the gloomy lives of the family in a revival of Paul Zindel's play.
"NOW" follows Kevin Spacey and his fellow actors in a production of "Richard III" that is staged around the world, from Beijing to Brooklyn.
Various issues unfold for a family of actors in "Just 45 Minutes From Broadway," a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.
Various issues unfold for a family of actors in "Just 45 Minutes From Broadway," a film adaptation of the Henry Jaglom play.
