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Theresa Rebeck's comedy concerns two married couples spending a less than idyllic weekend togetherread more
Cate Blanchett, Isabelle Huppert and Elizabeth Debicki ("The Great Gatsby") star in this Sydney Theatre Company production of Jean Genet's absurdist classic. read more
Julia Stiles and James Wirt co-star in this Off-Broadway romantic comedy.read more
John Lithgow plays the mad monarch in this free Central Park production of Shakespeare's classic tragedy, which also features Annette Bening.read more
Anna Gunn ("Breaking Bad") and Billy Magnussen ("Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike") co-star in Laura Eason's comedy/drama about the romantic and professional collaboration between a serio…
The newest jukebox musical celebrates the life and work of " Bert Berns? Yes. The loving "Piece of My Heart: The Bert Berns Story" tells the tale of the little-known...
TV sitcom veteran Mark Roberts' ("Two and a Half Men," "Mike and Molly") new play takes a darkly satirical swipe at network television.read more
Somehow, between doing eight shows a week of "Of Mice and Men," teaching, making movies and flirting on Instagram, James Franco's found time to make his stage directorial debut. Judging...
The creation of the atomic bomb was one of the most momentous events in world history. The most lethal weapon ever devised by man, it ended World War II when...
Hillary may be the one running for president, but it's Bill people want to see " at least, that's what the creators of "Clinton" are counting on. The musical satire...
How do you tell good Kabuki from bad Kabuki? Chances are, you know it when you see it, and New Yorkers have been seeing more of the Japanese art "...
Composer Randy Newman played the Devil in this one-night concert staging of his musical version of the "Faust" legend. read more
Ayad Akhtar's follow-up to his Broadway-bound, Pulitzer Prize-winning "Disgraced" again deals with culture clashes involving Muslim Americans.read more
Kenneth Branagh in Macbeth
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It’s doubtful you’ll ever see as compelling and visceral a interpretation of Macbeth as the one being performed for much too…
WITH 78 plays to his credit, Alan Ayckbourn's been compared to Neil Simon and Anton Chekhov. But while he's given us such brilliant comedies as "The Norman Conquests," his new...
Michael Shannon plays a man attempting to track down a serial killer in Eugene Ionesco's rarely seen dark comedy.read more
Thanks to such novels as "Atlas Shrugged" and "The Fountainhead," author Ayn Rand is a hero to libertarians, conservatives and Tea Partiers. So who better to star in "The Anthem"...
Thee sub shop employees are left to fend for themselves in Bess Wohl's dark comedy.read more
No wonder Linda Lavin reunited with Nicky Silver " her hilariously acidic performance in their last collaboration, "The Lyons," won her a Tony nomination. Silver's latest, "Too Much Sun," le…
"I can't bear to see lovely things go to waste," declares the fading actress of William Inge's "A Loss of Roses." The same can be said of this play, which...
It couldn't have come at a better time " the end of a theater season that just kept on giving. Much like "Rocky," one of its hapless targets, Gerard Alessandrini's...
Mary Martin " the quintessential Peter Pan " captivated theatergoers for nearly 40 years. The loving but misguided revue "Inventing Mary Martin" only feels that long. Stephen Cole, who co…
Lovers and others might want to steer clear of "Your Mother's Copy of the Kama Sutra." Starting with its icky title " the linking of one's progenitor to an infamous...
Neil Patrick Harris in Hedwig and the Angry Inch
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The colorful title character of Hedwig and the Angry Inch can be described as many things, but loveable is not usually …
Leave it to the New Group to show us a side of Nick Offerman we haven't seen before " his bare butt. In "Annapurna," the new play by Sharr White...
