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while we've had a plethora of revivals, this one makes a strong case for not relegating the well-made genre " at least not the one with solid literary roots " to the theatrical dustbin. At c…
The good news is that no one at Curtainup suffered power outages or flooding except Jo nMagaril in Los Angeles. However, getting to the theater is another…
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When baseball manager Leo Durocher coined his famous "nice guys finish last" back in 1938 he wasn't thinking of nice nebbishes like Josh Cohen for whom Valentine's Day is the unhappiest day …
The Transport group mission to explore the work of major American writers has produced a variety of hits. While this stage adaptation of Jontthan Franzen's essay is more miss than hit, it do…
he plot of Jon Ken's play is as awkwardly convoluted as its unwieldy title.
Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? - Amy Morton and Tracy Letts have made this 50-year-old play the freshest new Broadway experience. Even if you're familiar with Ge…
Amy Morton and Tracy Letts have made this 50-year-old play the freshest new Broadway experience. Even if you're familiar with George and Martha's devastatingly funny yet awful alliterative g…
In Stephen Belber's new play the father faced with what Dylan Thomas so beautifully described as the not so gentle descent into the good night, is a 72-year-old retired Buffalo Judge coming …
Cyrano de Bergerac - For anyone seeking a respite from daily headlines about people who should be heroes but instead tumble off their pedestals like Humpty Du…
- Much as I'd like to say that this is prime Gurney, I'm afraid that the opposite is true. . . .
For anyone seeking a respite from daily headlines about people who should be heroes but instead tumble off their pedestals like Humpty Dumpty, spending a few hours with a true-blue hero may …
In Simon Stephen's play, the title character's "disappearance" takes the audience on a journey with a woman whose normal behavior mechanism cracks .
Daisy Foote's character in her sister's dark family drama brings to mind the famous "I'm mourning for my life" comment of Chekhov's Masha
We should thank Mad Men for giving Julie Kramer and Amy Wilson's stage adaptation a nifty promotional tie in to the popular series. . .
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Grace - You never know what to expect from Craig Wright. In Grace he uses the familiarity with absolute evangelical theory gained while earning Masters of Divinity degreeto explore …
You can visit Lynn Fontanne and Alfred Luntr landmarked summer retreat right here in Manhattan with a ticket to Jeffrey Hatcher's backstage look at the legendary actors' lives . . . Read More
3 days to see a New Musical FREEOctober 10-11-12 The show: FICTION IN PHOTOGRAPHS, The Place: New World Stages34…
Stephen Sondheim aficionados will accept the limitations of this patchwork style mini musical. Sondheim Newbies would be better off with some cast recordings of his big hits. . . . Read More
New on Broadway-- a timely old play-- and off-broadway, provocoteur Adam Rapp's latest dystopian saga and a rarely seen Bria…
For the many fans of Brian Friel, the playwright often referred to as Ireland's Chekhov, seeing this rarely produced work in the format true to Friel's intention is a not to be missed opport…
this production has successfully brought Ibsen's 1882 muckraking drama into the 21st Century. . . . Read More
It's hard to imagine this history based drama without Kathleen Chalfant to charm you with her spot-on accent, and wry humor and ultimately bring tears to your eyes with her unimaginably horr…
There's certainly no shortage of dysfunctional family dramas. But a play with probably one of …
If the question this title asks is how to improve the way we live, Nick Payn's answer seems to be that it may just be best to start looking at problems right in your own home
