1,209 stories by "Elyse Sommer"
worth seeing for the well portrayed characters and the opportunity to revisit an era straight out of octogenarian Peter Nichols' own youth
Given the issues explored Lucy Thurber's new play is not light, escape fare. But it's about life and life is complicated.
The pantalooned male swans are back for another not to be missed evening of enthralling choreographed story telling
Matthew Lopez's gripping play about a troublesome chapter in our history gets a vivid New York premiere . . .
Amy Herzog's three-generation family saga is a treat: A beautifully staged and performed, intelligent play . . .
What's a good way to kick off Women's History Month? The theater seems to be doing it with all male casts
A splendidly staged surreal yet real new family drama that suffers from the novice playwright's tendency to try to do too much
Hats off to the Signature Theatre Company for launching its Tony Kushner season with a magnificent new production which fully realizes the play's epic and enduring theatricality.
a stellar cast buoys this play relying on a favorite plot device: a one night party that climaxes with a top-it-all shocking revelation
While Middletown is indeed an Our Town of sorts, don't count on the same homespun pleasures that have made Thornton Wilder's play one of our most durable stage classics.. .
The problem with this film to musical stage adaptation can be summed up in a single word: onkepatchket, a Yiddishism for too busy and overly decorated costume and home decor. While Catherine…
how Feb. 8th made theatrical history as a theater critics' Tea Party
newspaper tabloid mogul gets a funny, attention holding and surprisingly relevant revival at the Mint Theater . . .
Richard Nelson's election day dinner party is about as timely as you can get -- perhaps a bit too precociously so. On the other hand,you don't need stimulus money to see it six top of the li…
Whether you're energized or enraged by Ivo Van Hove's stylized production, you won't be bored
The teeth and fist clenching situation makes for a slam-bang first ten minutes or so of this world premiere by up and coming playwright Beau Willimon. It's also a bravura acting opportunity …
a Hollywood story with a Faustian twist . . . .
Try as she might, Olymptia Dukakis can't elevate this allusion filled play from its ranking at the lower end of Tennessee Williams' canon
this hard to classify 3-man show is probably one of the most unusual approaches to serious music as theate
Rine Groff uses marionettes to revisit a long-ago battle over the rights to dramatize Anne Frank's diary . . .
an unusual romance that will have you laughing and crying
a prequel to Peter Pan, big on imagination though occasionally too precociously clever
In this latest revival of Wilde's ever popular farce the lady is a guy . . .
Leave it to A. R. Gurney, the theater's Playwright Laureate of American Wasp life, to turn a family wedding into a ghostly comedy of manners. .
Mamet's 1977 backstage drama remains a great gift to two actors--currently Patrick Stewart and T.R. Knight
