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Whether or not there is any good reason to encourage it, this musical adaptation of the popular movie will presumably join the roster of other perennial holiday shows
Bill Camp's Underground Man pushes Dostoevsky's anti-hero right into the You Tube era. . .
an interesting artifact by a still emerging young playwright, but don't expect a lost masterpiece .
Director Alex Timbers has assembled a crew of theatrical artisans to re-create the funtastic atmosphere that once made the show such a hit
Amy Herzog's three-generation family saga is a treat: A beautifully staged and performed, intelligent play . . .
Quinn's motor-mouthed oral thesis may not always be uproarious, but it is consistently rib-tickling. . .
The problem with this film to musical stage adaptation can be summed up in a single word: onkepatchket, a Yiddishism for too busy and overly decorated costume and home decor. While Catherine…
Reggie Cheong-Leen's compelling story is effectively staged and performed .
Just when you think you might be tired of a corny old classic such as Oklahoma! along comes a production that is fresh, charming and bursting with energy.. . .
Time marches on, and plays, even substantial ones like this one by Vaclav Havel don't always keep in step . . .
Richard Nelson's election day dinner party is about as timely as you can get -- perhaps a bit too precociously so. On the other hand,you don't need stimulus money to see it six top of the li…
While Middletown is indeed an Our Town of sorts, don't count on the same homespun pleasures that have made Thornton Wilder's play one of our most durable stage classics.. .
Finally a new play focusing on Lesbians. . .if only Lisa Kron had made it less polemic and talky . . .
Kander and Ebb's dark musical dances to Broadway with its jazzy pizazz heightened
This is Maxwell's show. It is she who completely embodies both the fearless woman who once danced on the wings of planes and the distressed woman who suddenly finds herself lost in the cloud…
The teeth and fist clenching situation makes for a slam-bang first ten minutes or so of this world premiere by up and coming playwright Beau Willimon. It's also a bravura acting opportunity …
Rory Kinnear acts with his heart but is also naturally intelligent and contemplative, called for in the great soliloquies. He owns the role and is sure to be counted as one of the great acto…
forty-five years have not dimmed the brilliance of the Beatle canon, certainly none of the thirty-one songs performed.
The Irish Repertory Theatre's adaptation of Peter Quinn's novel about the 1863 Draft Riots should be more gripping than it is.
Can a cast with box office pizazz help to make the gradual friendship that evolves from Miss Daisy's resistance and her chauffeur Hoke's persistence still work?
Stephen Spinella's performance and Lisa Peterson and Denis O'Hare's adaptation at the McCarter Theater prevents this grimly realistic anti-war story from ever being boring. Instead, it bores…
A provocative play about the back-room negotiations of football could be a healthy and refreshing stretch/departure from traditional Broadway fare. The problem is that this one about the fam…
the 3-part festival is now in it's 6th year
this light-hearted musical production makes merry in Santa Monica before moving on to Pace University in New York
Sibusiso Mamba's world premiere at Crossroads Theatre, despite the inclusion of some highly lyrical prose, is a polemic posturing as a play
