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The film that turned into a Broadway hit, is now in London
originally produced during the 2010 New York Fringe Festival, this more elaborate and polished production should have a prosperous afterlife in regional theaters.
oe Gilford's play about his parents is often funny, generally moving and has an ending that leaves the audience feeling satisfied and just a bit nervous
Kinky Boots
Lucky Guy Consider yourself a lucky guy or gal if you nab a ticket for Nora Ephron 's new (and sad to say, last) play which gives Tom a good chance to put a Tony next to his O…
Good With People - David Harrower's play launches the Brits Off Broadway festival at 59E59 Theaters. It isn't enough of an elephant to merit its weigh
Jonathan Tolins'solo play is a hilarious and often poignant fiction exploring the role icons like Barbra Streisand play for a new generation of gaysJonathan Tolins'solo play is a hilarious a…
Whatever it is, we end up feeling for Cathy and Jamie, it won't be for their lack of musical and dramatic commitment to Brown's ambitious score.. . Read More
Written in the late 1940s by Rodney Ackland, but based on an ealier short story by Somerset Maugham. It was a hit in London's West End and is revived by Matthew Dunster at the Almeida in a w…
Pulitzer Prize winner Bruce Norris's third play at the London Court is an epic, sprawling "fable of free market economics and cut-throat capitalism" . . .
John Logan's new play stars the actors from the Bond film, Skyfall for which he wrote the screenplay. Judi Dench who plays Alice is James Bond's 'M', and Ben Whishaw is 'Q' . . . Read More
-London and New York were not the end of the rainbow for Tracie Bennett-- she's now Judy-ing up applause in LA ..
Lindsay Posner's excellent production uses as the stage curtainaa a facsimile of the first page of the Bill of Rights which signposts the audience towards the search for justice as the main …
Sean Mathias's second attempt to stage Truman Capote's novella doesn't work on Broadway any more than it did in London
There is the aura of a very old B movie in listening to the endlessly pontificating science-saturated characters in Lanford Wilson's 1975 play.
This play makes it appear that the economic bridge that spans between 1880 and 2013 is distanced enough now so that a rich girl can make the right choices for the wrong reasons, or is it the…
I would name this as the number one must-see play on in London but research it before you go, so you know what to expect
Target Margin's production of Peretz Hirschbein's play may leave even those familiar with Yiddish theater baffled.
a rather facetious fabrication, or as Lucas call it on the first page of the script, "a damn lie." And since it's a sin to tell a lie, let me say that Craig Lucas's two-hander is not a very …
Annie Baker, whose other plays have also been lauded for their informally structured, protracted naturalistic style, may be demanding a lot, especially from one segment of the audience, with…
Irwin and Shiner put a spade to their clowning roots and grow a brilliant new piece that has one foot in the past, one in the present, and surely plants them in the genealogical line of grea…
he Vineyard production of Rajiv Joseph's 2-hander is at once both compelling and confusing
This solo show succeeds in some measure as a cornucopia of quotes from its eminently quotable subject, as a testament to Ann Richard's indomitable spirit " and to the fine actor portraying h…
he Pearl Theater continues its exploration of Shakkespeare's History plays in its new home on 42nd Street
Amy Herzog's most gut-wrenching play is a deeply compassionate exploration into why people will sometimes depart from what is rational, prudent and even sane to protect the ones they love
Paul Downs Colaizzo points a finger at his own Me-First Generation .
