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Matthew Warchus directs a revival of another long running West End hit by a French author. Boeing Boeing, which had its theatrical heyday in the 1960s, is a successful example of the genre o…
Marat/Sade is one of those plays that can change your life-if done correctly. Peter Brook's seminal production of the play in 1966 is considered the gold standard. Classical Theatre of Harle…
Has Richard Foreman become anathema to himself? So long the frontrunner of the New York avant-garde, he's now - dare I say it? - predictable.
Dean Gray has once again focuses on a Gay Midwesterner, this time a gifted young composer from a conservative Christian background, now living in New York.
Playwright-lyricist Christopher Durang's and composer Peter Melnick's Adrift in Macao - that's pronounced mah-cow- hits all the film noir B-movie bases but this spoof of the Chandler ouevre …
Lantern Theater Company's Artistic director Charles McMahon conceived the idea of casting just two actors for ten roles. While the language lends a fresh and current quality to the play, and…
Alice Childress' play-within-a-play is a disturbing look at racism within American society through the lens of the theatre.
Aptly titled and appropriate for February and Valentine's Day, this compilation is part of the Philadelphia New Play Festival Theatre Exile showcases five short plays by three celebrated loc…
The invaluable Encores! series has given us a Follies that even without the razzle dazzle of a full staging shimmers and shines thanks to a sublimely talented cast.
The musical is vital, compelling and, above all, authentic. . . Last summer I was fortunate enough to attend a workshop of In the Heights and I knew that if producers opened up their hearts …
Being a theater critic I don't have as much time as I'd like to visit New York's expansive art scene, and revisit paintings by some of my favorite painters. How nice then to see some of Pier…
Writer/Director Julien Nitzberg and composer Roger Neill have teamed up to create libretto and music that reminds one simultaneously of Gilbert and Sullivan and Mel Brooks.
Playwright Oren Safdie, whose best known work Private Jokes, Public Places, a comedy about aspiring architects, earned good reviews and an extended run Off Broadway in 2003, is back with ano…
This new play about a dysfunctional (to put it mildly!) Los Angeles native and an immigrant of vaguely Mid-Eastern origin who operates under multiple identies has been anticipated with consi…
Hirson's witty faction --a mix of real historic and invented characters-- is in good hands. Director Joe Grifasi moves things along at a crisp intermissionless 80 minutes and the cast excels.
The White Horse Theater Company deserves credit for creating an artistic mission that included the production of classics, major and minor. It is in the spirit of this mission that the group…
A Model Girl is a new musical which tells the true story of society osteopath Stephen Ward and Christine Keeler, a girl who he procured to sleep with, among others, the Minister for War and …
Of Mice and Men, rewritten for the stage by the author, is a fine little story. Too easily dismissed as sentimental, it brings to my mind the best of contemporary classics.
For collectors of Pinter performances, these fourteen sketches written from 1959 to 2006 have curiosity value.
Bob Clyman's laugh-out-loud socio-political farce may owe some of its inspired lunacy to such classic horror flicks as The Stepford Wives, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, and Village of the …
Even a terrific production couldn't make this improbable tale of villainy something with great appeal to modern audiences. Unfortunately, David Herskovits has chosen to play up the cartoonis…
So often, when Shakespeare is modernized the concept overshadows the play itself but Darko Tresnjak has wisely chosen to avoid a concept, and instead simply updates the play's surroundings. …
Wallace Shawn's monologue, first performed at The Public Theatre with a ticket price of a ten spot, has mushroomed to $51.25 a seat, connoting not only a radical change to the economics of p…
