286 stories by "SANDY MACDONALD"
William Finn’s 1992 portrait of an unconventional clan proves its staying power.
The mystery is why Shelagh Delaney's funny, touching & extraordinarily prescient 1958 play has sat on the shelf so long. It is no mystery that REBEKAH BROCKMAN is a revelation in the role o…
A brilliant cast suffuses a potential downer of a musical with light and laughs.
Self-interested adults do their best to thwart a budding romance.
This top-shelf musical revival makes 1934 Budapest feel brand new.
A fractured folk tale from the 70s roars back to life in this inspired revival.
The stage version proves a worthy successor to the film, fuled by dazzling underage talent.
Inspired design and perfectly cast actors breathe new life into a classic.
There’s plenty of passion but little spark in this reboot of Sam Shepard’s 1983 psychodrama.
Ken Jaworowski's play at the WorkShop Theater depicts a dispiriting devolution in a marriage, with two sets of actors portraying a couple over two decades.
Annie Baker s latest is more ruminative, less compelling than her previous work.
A delicate Ariel salvages a night of skimpy stage magic.
Two young women, of different races but similarly scarred, take on a cold world.
A valiant attempt to reconcile light and dark ends up a bit of a muddle.
A deft conceptual overhaul further lightens the Bard’s liveliest bagatelle.
Henry James would be aghast at the damage done to his delicate family drama.
Stage magic proves a poor substitute for emotional depth.
Gretchen Mol shines a bit too brightly in a character study that takes its time coalescing.
This 25th annual event is a unique chance to assess tomorrow’s hit shows in their earliest incarnation.
Stripped to the essentials, this ageless tragedy excoriates anew.
Broadway’s beloved triple-threat is not all sweetness and light.
High art and trashy entertainment get smashed together brilliantly in Mark-Anthony Turnage’s brave opera.
This dance-infused fantasy, as reimagined, delves deeper than the original.
Theresa Rebeck decants two marriages on the rocks, but fails to get us to care about either couple.
August Wilson’s family drama has lost none of its resonance, and likely never will.
