262 stories by "Eric Grode"
In "Mama, I Want to Sing: The Next Generation" a gospel musical is given a fresh look by a new generation of performers.
A new series at New Georges asks playwrights to write the impossible For a playwright, it’s the dramaturgical equivalent of a blank check: a theatre company asking for a piece, …
At the adventurous Brick Theater, the latest theme involves comic books.
How the actor is tackling two roles for Shakespeare in the Park One advantage of performing in repertory is the chance to try on a variety of roles: Coriolanus one night, a stable han…
The character actor John Cullum, at 81, shows no signs of slowing down: he's playing in two Shakespeare in the Park productions this summer.
The animal trainer William Berloni, who found Little Orphan Annie her dog and has groomed scores of other animals for Broadway, will be honored during the Tony Awards this weekend.
An Off Broadway company revives a forgotten classic Three people appear in the very first scene of Rachel Crothers’ A Little Journey, never to be seen again. That fact alone wou…
In "WTC View," a Manhattan man's roommate search is disrupted by history: the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001.
Nashville dreams and treacheries are at the heart of the new musical "Lucky Guy."
How Mackenzie Crook Mastered His Tony-Nominated Role
When award season comes around, playing giants among men (and women) is often good for one’s mantelpiece. Hamlet, Medea, Max Bialys…
Tommy Smith and Reggie Watts's "Radio Play" is performed in almost complete darkness at Performance Space 122, placing a higher premium on what is heard, as opposed to what is seen.
Ronan Noone's "Little Black Dress," at the Theater at St. Clement's, focuses on a woman who yearns to flee her husband and son.
Humor is found in the grim setting of a not-so-distant time in Laurel Haines's "Future Anxiety," now at the Flea Theater in TriBeCa.
In the historical drama "Triangle," brief eyewitness accounts of the Triangle shirtwaist factory fire are interspersed with a love story and Tin Pan Alley tunes.
A new musical brings a Hollywood choreographer back to Broadway
The intertwined tango-ing limbs of Brangelina in Mr. and Mrs. Smith. The alternately jaw-dropping (in an awful way) and jaw-dr…
Belarus Free Theatre performs plays that would get them arrested back home
Command performances in London's House of Parliament, 10-minute standing ovations in New York, adoring crowds in Ho…
In "Wittenberg," Dr. Faustus and Martin Luther have fun batting about Hamlet, their student.
Classic Stage Company serves up "Double Falsehood," which might be a late-career collaboration between Shakespeare and John Fletcher or might simply be a fraud.
The playwright Sharr White has embraced the practical way in which he lives his life in his creative endeavors, and the approach has helped make his play "The Other Place" his first major Ne…
How actors navigate big ideas in the Broadway revival of Stoppard’s play
Early in Arcadia, Tom Stoppard's beguiling mashup of academic one-upsmanship, fractals, Lord Byron, landscape g…
A witless revival of the 1965 sex farce "Cactus Flower" opened at the Westside Theater Upstairs.
The actor becomes a director for John Leguizamo's new Broadway show
Summer of Sam. The Ice Age films. Super Mario Brothers. For better or for worse, these were all major touchstones in Jo…
With the Wooster Group’s latest production, Scott Shepherd extends his downtown legacy
Upon his first exposure to Gatz, Elevator Repair Service's six-hour, word-for-word staging of F. …
B. H. Barry, a master of stage fighting, is directing a sword-studded version of "Treasure Island," aimed at younger audiences.
In the Polish novelist Dorota Maslowska's play "A Couple of Poor, Polish-Speaking Romanians" at Abrons Arts Center, the seemingly nihilistic title couple are not without vulnerability.
