66 stories by "JENNIFER FARRAR"
Considering the ongoing global financial crisis, it's clear that classic theater can remain eerily relevant even after 400 years.
NEW YORK—Once you get past the challenging beginning of the Transport Group's otherwise enjoyable new work based on Jonathan Franzen's quirky essay, "House For Sale," you can settle in…
Pre-history would sound very different if dinosaurs could tell their own stories. Especially if they were raucously singing and dancing while dealing with identity crises and gender morphing…
Pre-history would sound very different if dinosaurs could tell their own stories. Especially if they were raucously singing and dancing while dealing with identity crises and gender morphing…
The sweetest space cadet you'll ever meet is Miriam, the spunky heroine of a warm-hearted new play, "7th Monarch." The intriguing drama by Jim Henry, detailing several mysteries surrounding …
The battle of the sexes is waged anew as "The Taming of the Shrew" by William Shakespeare enjoys a fresh, robust off-Broadway presentation by Theatre for a New Audience at The Duke on 42nd S…
There was an unhappy time in America when ratting out your friends for entertaining socialist ideas was considered by some in the government to be patriotic.
A girl's gotta do what a girl's gotta do to win her man. Esteemed American playwright Eugene O'Neill, winner of four Pulitzer Prizes and the Nobel Prize for Literature, created a fierce lite…
"I'm gonna need therapy to get over this therapy," one character remarks in exasperation to another, near the end of Frank Strausser's uneven new comedy "Psycho Therapy."
Gerard Mannix Flynn's blazing indictment of the nationwide, decades-long abuse of institutionalized schoolchildren in Ireland, titled "James X," is remarkable and should not be missed.
If your idea of Christmas holiday fun includes a caustic comedy with a warm, mushy heart, then the Peccadillo Theater Company's amusing revival of a popular, acerbic play from the 1930s will…
Boy meets girl, boy cons girl, boy steals girl's money and honor -- or does he?
Sometimes the only way to make a fresh start is to face what you most fear; although some divine intervention on your behalf wouldn't hurt.
Did he or didn't he? If you like a touch of Shakespearean mystery in your drama, check out "Double Falsehood," a play of murky historical origin about betrayal, star-crossed lovers and hidde…
Does a tree still grow in Brooklyn? A poignant revival of a musical about struggling upward from poverty reminds us that yes, it can.
Watching a person suffer through gruesome, highly contagious and fatal diseases, only to be revived just before death, seems an unlikely spectator sport.
