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The Roundabout gets everything right in its revival of this musical theater charme
A world premiere of Kenneth Lonergan comic look at our celebrity culture Read More
A dark, different and deeply moving musical gets a fine production at the Public theater
Our review Stephen Karam's family drama on Broadway. . .
Bobby Steggert gives a powerhouse performance in Anna Ziegler's fact-based new play
he real drug obessing the characters in Lucas Hnath play is the drug of misguided ambition Read More
Disturbing and outstandingly staged as ever
Richard Nelson's new Rhinebeck cycle gets off to a good start
Danai Gurira most personal play and her first venture into comedy drama
Charles Messina write and directs a play tapping into his memories of growing up in Greenwich Village in the late '70s. Too bad it's only intermittently poignant or funny. .
The Mint once again fulfills is archeological mission with Hazel Ellis's all female play nodding to diversity in action with a female director and all female crafts team. .
Even without the all too timely focus on what's entailed in being a photo-journalist in bloody war zones, seeing Michael Crane and Michael Cupstey on stage throughout this 2-hander's 90-minu…
Playwright Alfred Uhry and director-choreographer's Martha Clarke's dance=theater piece focuses on the struggle-filled life of the Shaker community's founder Ann Lee and the fallout of the g…
Ed Harris heads Sam Shepard's creepy American gothic family in the New Group's riveting revival.
- Lydia R. Diamond's conversation about prejudice is stylishly staged and timely but not quite as smart a satire as it wants to be
Bedlam's hilariously inventive take on Jane Austen's first novel
John Patrick Shanley compelling new coming-of-age play turns his trilogy based on personal history into a tetralogy. . .
The multi-talented James Ortiz has created a hauntingly beautiful, spectacularly imaginative adult theater piece about the back story of how a flesh and blood wood chopper turned into Frank …
an entertaining and sometimes doleful playoff that sparks with only an occasional sputter
Linda Lavin is at the top of her game, playwright Richard Greenberg not quite so muc
Dominique Morisseau has created four vivid, likeable characters and provided them with authentic dialogue and stories in this final play of her Detroit trilogy.
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Sardines, slamming doors and a stellar cast are at their their funniest during the middle act's in front and in back of the curtain shenanigans
this is still as close as you can get to a perfect musical and a memorable Teyve courtesy of Danny Burstein .
ith so many styles beautifully executed by ADM21ers, it's hard to single out any one of these interpreters of astounding ballet leaps, characterizing gestures, jazzy high kicks and synchroni…
