447 stories by "David Roberts"
Bloody, gory, horror films certainly have been around for quite a while and have been successful in creating a cult audience that supports the genre. Transforming one of these for the stage …
The sharp and witty dialogue of the latest dramedy penned by playwright Tracy Letts is foreshadowed by the title "Linda Vista" which means "pretty view" in Spanish. The midlife crisis of a b…
The most recent revival of "Little Shop of Horrors" by the musical theatre team Howard Ashman and Alan Menken surely proves to be timeless and timely. The musical numbers still seem to linge…
That said, under Kent Paul's judicious direction, Haskell King and Sean Gormley faithfully explore the underbelly of moral absolutes and moral ambiguity with consummate performances. Mr. Kin…
"Slave Play," currently running on Broadway at the Golden Theatre, reiterates the events on the fourth day of the Antebellum Sexual Performance Therapy being held at MacGregor Plantation, a …
Jack Thorne's "Sunday," currently running at Atlantic Theater Company's Linda Gross Theater, seems to elicit one of two responses: disappointment or robust enthusiasm. A group of Gen Z frien…
David Staller's direction is both evenhanded and refreshing, successfully bring this adaptation to an authentic and innovative staging of this Shaw classic that has not been produced in New …
Undertaker John Plunkett (Jeffrey Bean) and his intern Mark (Cillian Hegarty) enter the office of a funeral home on the Northside of Dublin where John works. They have just finished a servic…
Florian Zeller's complex "The Height of the Storm" is a must see this Broadway season. Enjoy the opportunity to witness Jonathan Pryce and Eileen Atkins " two of the greatest actors of their…
As a result of playwright Mfoniso Udofia's profound interest in the African Diaspora, perhaps no fictional couple in the recent history of Off-Broadway theatre have had their histories more …
Part group therapy, part intervention, part Doctors Phil and Ruth, "Fern Hill," currently running at 59E59 Theaters through Sunday October 20, 2019, rehearses the events at Sunny's (Jill Eik…
Playwrights Roy and Webb never lose site of the significance of the young Richard's crime. The "Guide" is not about claiming innocence. It is about Richard's sense of entitlement. His consta…
Writing a play about two iconic figures like Paul McCartney and John Lennon is risky business. Detailed information about their lives, their work, and their relationships is abundant and rea…
Jonathan Spector's "Eureka Day," currently running at Walkerspace through Saturday September 21, is a complex and thoughtful trope for the upside and downside of such moral ambiguity and cha…
Keith Hamilton Cobb has been on an urgent mission, crisscrossing the United States since 2013 performing his "American Moor." Mr. Cobb's almost-one-man-show is a trope, here an extended meta…
Elisabeth Kübler-Ross's groundbreaking "On Death and Dying" was first published in 1969. The Grief Cycle outlined in this book remains the standard for understanding the "stages" of bereave…
Chatillion Stage Company's "Tech Support," currently running at 59E59 Theaters, begins with the play's protagonist Pamela Stark (Margot White) frantically pacing around in her West Village w…
After a successful run at the Public's Newman Theater earlier this year, "Sea Wall / A Life" by Simon Stephens and Nick Payne opened at Broadway's Hudson Theatre on August 8th, 2019. Both ar…
Currently running at Theatre Row, Ma-Yi Theater Company's "Felix Starro" launches the Company's 30th Anniversary Season. The musical is based on Filipino-American writer Lysley Tenorio's sho…
In the first forty minutes of "Make Believe," under Michael Greif's careful direction, the young cast of four successfully provides the needed exposition for the success of the final 40 minu…
In her somewhat autobiographical play "Rinse, Repeat" which will end its extended successful run at The Romulus Linney Courtyard Theatre at The Pershing Square Signature Center on Saturday A…
The producers of the Off-Broadway return of Howard Ashman and Alan Menken's landmark musical "Little Shop of Horrors" have announced that Tony Award nominee Gideon Glick ("To Kill A Mockingb…
David: Lenore, your new off-Broadway show "The Exes" officially opens on Thursday August 15th at Theatre Row. That's getting close! What are your thoughts and feelings as the opening approac…
Necromancy does not fare well in Esteban R. Alvarez III's "Just Outside the Door" which just ended its three-performance run at the Broadway Bound Theatre Festival. The play's protagonist is…
In "Florida Man" by Michael Presley Bobbitt, a young man racked with guilt digs up his dead father William Crud (the crud of a memory John Higgins) to give him the proper Viking funeral he a…