1,209 stories by "Elyse Sommer"
Nelson takes us back to 1958 when Public Theate founder Joe Papp faced the collapse of his dream of free Shakespeare productions. Given where it's runing the Shakespeare festival…
Anna Ziegler uses tennis as metaphor for the universal game of life. Anna Ziegler uses tennis as metaphor for the universal game of life. Though you don't have to be…
John Patrick Shanley is back with another comedy about moonstruck losers. . .this one aiming for freshness with a running "how could you vote for Trump" joke
After almost half a century Harvey Fierstein's story about drag queen Arnold Beckoff's quest for a satisfying love and family life is dated, an artifact of gay history on stag…
J. B. Priestley's 1937 "time play" presents us with a diverse representatives of the British middle class attempting to prosper and regain its equilibrium in the years between the t…
Brian Friel's final visit to Ballybeg at the Irish Rep
Playwright William Donnelly t doesn't always manage to make the glib banter and more painful undercurrents mesh fluidly, there is a lot that's heart-touching and compelling here.
the emphasis in this very loose take on Shakespeare's play is on comedy and the fine cast and ear-pleasing score succeed in making it wonderfully entertaining
For most of its 100 minutes, John Doyle's production doubles its pleasures. That's even though the running time has probably been cut to half of its usual length and there a…
Max Posner depiction of one man's battle with the slings and arrows tossed at his aging mother and the sleeping demons of resentment they stir in him isn't light entertai…
Director Anne Kauffman hit the perennial nail on the head in describing Amy Herzog's title character as a modern
day Job
a small, well-acted play about two men with very big egos
Outstanding performances make Dan McCormick's 3-hander about a lost Stradivari worth seeing
unning new production of Suzan-Lori Parks' 2nd Red Letter Play.
an early Simon Stephens play at the Atlantic Theater
Even with a committed cast, headed by Kathleen Chalfant this one act meditation on aging and dying never escapes feeling like watching someone's home movies with commenta…
Michael Yates Crowley's uses a ambitious exploration of a persistent rape culture as experienced by an American high school girl
director and cast give new life to Suzan-Lori Parks' 2003 play that's as relentlessly downbeat and bloody as any Greek tragedy
sampler of 17 of the shows Harold Prince has directed and some 30 of those shows' breakout hitsÂ
This evening of 4 short plays by Teresa Deevy completes one of the Mint Theater Company's most ambitious and welcome rescue missions of a playwright whose work deserves wi…
The Ensemble for the Romantic Century unique chamber concerts combied with a theatrically staged narrative begins the company's its season in New York, with the story of the…
Bruce Norris's very dark though frequently funny puzzle play finally lands in New York
Michael Moore may not be able to take down our sitting president, but he does lift our spirits
Tina Howe's worthy but flawed real-surreal new play about climate change and aging
a here today-gone in 4 days revival of Sondheim's chilling yet thrilling killer show buoyed by a killer cast
