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For Schreiber this is a chance to show that his much praised role in last year's Broadway revival of Awake and Sing wasn't a flash in the pan. Brooksher is making an impressive New York debu…
Stuart Carolan's characters breathe fire. His story, like his characters and their relationships, transcends the play's period. But the plot sputters to a somewhat clunky ending.
He's young enough to have the stamina that the role of King Lear calls for, but has over time developed the range required for the aged monarch to progress (and regress) from understated arr…
I see Equus is destined for New York, presumably with its two main stars intact and I suspect that young Daniel Radcliffe will wow them there as he has wowed them here. Whatever will he do n…
Yes, this is a message play, but the message is engrossingly deployed within the frame of some terse, often humorously embroidered scenes that include a number of significant supporting char…
History of the Word is the first high-school audience and curricula-geared production by the Vineyard Theatre. They are on the right track, though they are experiencing the inevitable growin…
The role of Florence Foster Jenkins has been identified with Judy Kaye who played, the self-deluded prima donna at the York Theater, the Berkshire Theatre Festival and on Broadway. Now Souve…
This is and utterly unique and not-to-be-missed experience for anyone wanting a little more than sushi before their next trip to Tokyo.
Sitting through a bad play is one thing; sitting through a well-done but pointless play is quite another. The Cave Dwellers by William Saroyan, currently revived by the Pearl Theatre Company…
An intriguingly told but too drawn out descent-into-Hollywood Hell story.
Unlike Patrick Marber's second play, Closer, a slickly engineered and choreographed sexual pas de quartre, Howard Katz revolves around a single character-a class B talent agent who carries a…
R. C. Sherriff, who himself was a survivor of the war, may have intended it as a tribute to his brave comrades rather than as an anti-war play, but it is nevertheless a stark reminder of the…
The Reporter is a very British play in many ways. It will appeal to lovers of the worlds of Graham Greene and John le Carre. It shrewdly depicts the refined cruelties of social class and the…
Plays by Thomas Otway are an infrequent event on the London stage and the complexity of The Soldiers' Fortune makes a performance problematic but this does not deter The Young Vic's Artistic…
Sealed for Freshness isn't fresh at all. Stale would be a better word to describe the new play at New World Stages about a Tupperware party gone awry
The name of Anna Ziegler's effectively staged and emotionally affecting play about friendship and romantic love is, like that of the producing company, an acronym: BFF = Best Friends Forever…
Ignore comments you may have heard to the effect that this final Coast of Utopia episode is less dramatic and even more talky than its predecessors. Sure, it's talky, but it's also the most …
Controversial and disparaged in the decades since Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht created it in 1931, The Rise and Fall of the City of Mahagonny has finally come into its own in a clean-cut po…
Ms. Landau deserves our thanks for giving us a chance to have a look at this nearly forgotten ghost story. Her production is well cast and handsomely designed by James Schuette and with evoc…
This kind of comedy with music has been done before. However, Jim Neu's text and lyrics are sharp and funny and he has the good sense to know when to end things. At just $15 a ticket this is…
Sarah Schulman's stage adaptation of Isaac Bashevis Singer's novel of Holocaust survivors, Enemies, a Love Story, wants more humor and passion in order to do justice to the story.
Jessica Lange is re-creating the role of Amanda Wingfield with a new director and a British supporting cast.
It's part tense street gang thriller and part workday comedy in the style of The Office. If you think those elements wouldn't make for a cohesive play, you'd be right.
