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The fact that the fairly popular literary conceit of one story told during the action of another story is said to have first been used in 1587 by Thomas Kyd in The Spanish Tragedy adds a pos…
Jessica Hagedon's whirlwind pastiche of life in the Philippines in the early eighties just before the Marcos regime began to crumble gets a new production at the Kirk Douglas Theater.
Fiona Shaw and Deborah Warner apply their combined talents to Samuel Becket's Happy Days. Shaw's Winnie, the housewife who is usually buried up to her waist in sand or earth but who, in this…
Despite a real sense of intimacy, the tone in Hugh Fraser's underpowered production of Uncle Vanya is so low key that it seems almost as casual as the contemporary clothes worn by the cast.
How do you best approach a play about a larger than life figure like the legendary architect Frank Lloyd Wright? With his life and work already amply documented, Richard Nelson's approach of…
Scene One. Scene One. Scene One. The central character of Alejandro Morales' The Silent Concerto is trying to write a play about himself and his two best friends, buthe is hobbled by a major…
None of these actors have names associated with box office wattage like last year's production of The Faith Healer, but this is offset by the pleasures of watching this cast's interaction - …
Playwright Thomas Gibbons lets the arrows fly where they may. Neither angels nor devils, the protagonists sometimes look good and sometimes less so.
The dysfunctional Rhode Island family in Mark Kemble's play making its world debut at the Greenway Court Theatre has such major traumas it's tough to contain them all in one place.
Frank McGuinness excels at those Irish family dramas in the tradition of Sean O'Casey where the characters are strong and the stories remarkable. There Came A Gypsy Riding is no exception.
Kneehigh production's experimentalism may not be to everyone's taste and, by making Cymbeline so accessible, this response to Shakespeare is ultimately reductive and not much else. Neverthel…
Mark Nelson is clearly at home in the role created by Jefferson Mays.
If its dialogue makes today's audiences cringe today, I can only imagine their reaction in 1964.
Those of us who remember high school math with a grimace may not think of pi as inherently romantic. That's not the case for the characters of Kathryn Walat's new play.
The world premiere of Bruce Graham's new two character play is part of the inaugural Philadelphia New Play Festival.It's about retribution and maybe about how revenge may not be so sweet eve…
In a fascinating double bill, the all male acting company Propeller directed by Edward Hall, brings two Shakespeare plays to Kevin Spacey's Old Vic.
It's a broad comedy,about an eccentric family-- still very much a work in progress, but worth seeing for its touching overtones of wacky familial love and self-acceptance.
This domestic drama may not be the stuff of social satire for the ages, but it is an entertaining sendup of our celebrity conscious culture. If it gives new meaning to anything, it's the little in the ever fashionable little black dress.
This early Christopher Durang play is much influenced by some of his predecessors in both inanity and irreverence, ranging from fairly obvious television allusions to sitcoms of the 50s and …
Although conceived separately, this London double bill of one-man shows written and performed by Mark Ravenhill and Stewart Lee, respectively, offers a fascinating comparison.
The Lookingglass Theatre of Chicago has joined the ever growing list of those misguided yet intrepid souls who continue to make a mockery of one of the richest and most endearing satires in …
This glorious co-production is directed with a gratifying balance of toughness and tenderness by Michael Wilson.
In The Dirty Talk two men are stuck in a cabin in the New Jersey mountains, caught in a rainstorm that isn't letting up anytime soon. It doesn't sound like a premise for particularly high dr…
