'Mrs. Warren's' garbles universal language
With its sharp and witty observations about sex and class, freedom and oppression, and mothers and daughters, there's plenty to recommend in George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession."
With its sharp and witty observations about sex and class, freedom and oppression, and mothers and daughters, there's plenty to recommend in George Bernard Shaw's "Mrs. Warren's Profession."
It's not about complexity. It's about manipulation.
It's exciting to see "The Scottsboro Boys" on Broadway boasting so many things a musical should have. That includes good songs, a provocative story (not from a movie), a rousing staging and …
"Gruesome Playground Injuries" is a short play, just 80 minutes long. It wastes no time in revealing itself as irresistibly odd and exciting.
If there's a compelling reason for "The Pee-wee Herman Show" to be on Broadway beyond delivering its gleeful dash of sunny but slightly subversive fun, it's to remind us that things can stay…
Odd couples are the stuff comedies are made of.
Doing shows with Penn Jilette, the pint-sized and tight-lipped one-named illusionist Teller has dangled upside-down and over a bed of spikes, swung over bear traps and been run over by an 18…
"I'm always cold."
Nearly 40 years after winning a Tony and a Pulitzer, the play, which opened last night in a starry revival, amounts to two hours of bombast given the full-court press.
High and low art collide deliriously in "La Bete," David Hirson's quirky comedy set in 17th-century France and spoken in verse. Back on Broadway 19 years Âafter its first famously ephemer…
"The Importance of Being Earnest" turns 116 next month, and the old joker is surprisingly spry.
Jon Robin Baitz likes his fictional California families rich, connected and clamorously close-knit.
Playwright A.R. Gurney is known for being a devoted and prolific chronicler of WASP culture, which he captures with warmth and perception. He's at his best when he gets reflective and dives …
Leave it to the ace docutheater company the Civilians to turn a convoluted and contentious saga of urban planning into something concise, juicy and entertaining.
Michael Cyril Creighton is an actor with a day job in a theater box office, and he plays one on the Web.
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Mandy Patinkin knows from Âobsessives.
Geoffrey Rush is insanely great at acting crazy. He proves it nightly at the Brooklyn Academy of Music with his wacky and wonderfully touching tour de force in "The Diary of a Madman."
Two months into its Broadway run back in March, the Tony-nominated "Time Stands Still" called a time-out to allow Laura Linney to shoot "The Big C."
You've seen her: A woman with a face-lift who looks dewy from the neck up but whose crepe-y hands give away her age.
If acting miserable together on stage is good for a relationship, Anton Chekhov may be the best thing that's happened to Maggie Gyllenhaal and Peter Sarsgaard.
"Bloody Bloody Andrew Jackson" lives up to its title. During its brisk 90 minutes, a veritable basinful of the red stuff flows. The same goes for cranked-up silliness, which is the name of t…
In his debut play, "Blood From a Stone," Tommy Nohilly paints his portrait of the American family.