286 stories by "Sandy MacDonald"
The budget for this production seems aimed at keeping costs to a minimum.
Gretchen Mol shines a bit too brightly in a character study that takes its time coalescing.
The Little Tramp gets a fitting – and moving – homage.
Eight 45-minute samplers, geared toward National Alliance for Musical Theatre members, attract the crème de la crème of stage talent.
In this spirited battle of the sexes, the women come out on top.
Annie Baker’s latest is yet another unassuming but brilliant exploration of the human condition.
Hot playwright Bruce Norris examines the fallout when a man wants it all, and then some.
Brenda Withers could have gone the glam route, like her Matt
Even if you think you know everything about world-famous sex therapist Dr. Ruth Westheimer, playwright Mark St. Germain (Freud's Last Session) has put it all together in one very appealing p…
The comfort level afforded by a well-endowed arts institution is not always propitious. Case in point: Boston's prestigious Huntington Theatre Company extended an invitation to local playwri…
There's a mathematical elegance to the plot of Jane Austen's debut novel, Sense
There's something oddly muted about director John Tiffany's rendition of The Glass Menagerie, which represents the American Repertory Theater's first foray into Tennessee Williams territory.…
This is not your high school's Pippin. Not unless your drama teacher had the budget to hire world class Canadian acrobats as players, or the clout to bring in show composer Stephen Schwartz …
For her latest play, Dear Elizabeth: A Play in Letters from Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell and Back Again, now premiering at Yale Repertory Theatre, Sarah Ruhl essentially seems to have t…
Kathleen Turner deserves a measure of thanks for dusting off Frank Marcus's provocative and sporadically hilarious 1964 dramedy The Killing of Sister George, about a much-beloved BBC radio s…
Jeffery Roberson " bravely shedding his longtime nom de théâtre, Varla Jean Merman -- plays it straight, if cross-dressed, as the title character of Gian Carlo Menotti's powerful one-ho…
Kara Lee Corthron's
AliceGraceAnon now at the vast Irondale Center, is an appropriately sprawling piece of theater: part rock musical and part feminist mash-up. And even if it's only interm…
The Other Josh Cohen at Soho Playhouse could be described as a seriocomic thirty-something tale of romantic woe. Yet, thanks to the cleverness of co-authors David Rossmer and Steve Rosen and…
On the face of it, John Douglas Thompson might not be anyone's first choice to portray Louis Armstrong, especially in the twilight of his career. But the supremely talented actor proves to b…
The light and clever hand of adapter/director Julie Kramer guides the new stage version of Rona Jaffe's scandalous 1958 novel
The Best of Everything, now at HERE.This fairly faithful redact…
