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a smartly staged homage to Charlie Chaplin buoyed by Rob McClure's brilliant star turn . . . Read More
Hurrah! Gerald Alessandrini's spoof fest, is back after a 3-year long hiatus . . . Read More
Sam Shepard may be at the point in life where he's eligible for social security, but don't count on his having settled into easy, entertainment mode. Heartless may not be his best play" sure…
The times are ripe for a solid comedy or drama about the risks and rewards for gay couples adopting children, but Chad Beguelin's fails the challenge. . . . Read More
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Drama critic Terry Teachout's solo play remains "unfrozen" during its Shakespeare & Co run though John Doughlas Thompas has already found ways to compensate for the absence of other cast mem…
The Taper proves to be an ideal venue for John Logan's play.
I can't think of an actress more capable of holding the stage all by herself and bringing fascinating women like Thompson and Wharton to life. She's also proved herself the embodiment of the…
Primary Stages is continuing its laudable association with the late Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and his talented daughters, beginning with three one act "trunk" plays from Papa Foote's…
Barrington Stage's leave-them-laughing Main Stage finale for Summer 2012, is sublimely silly, superbly timed and performed . . .
In her opening night welcoming speech the artistic director suggested that since this is a co-production with three other theater companies, viewers might want to see it again and again. Des…
How great that we are invited quite literally into the woods
Brian Friel's wonderful 1964 play gets a perfect production at the Donmar Warehouse wotj Lyndsey Turner directing
Shakespeare's tragedy with a Tsarist Russia twist and company co-founder playing the coveted title role . . . Read More
If the principal goal of this musical was to have a young and awesomely talented company Bring It On, then they have done it in spectacular fashion.
Oscar-winner Olymbia Dukakis as the latest gender-bending exiled monarch
-Rajiv Joseph has borrowed Agatha Christie's favorite device, planting clues and red herrings to keep her readers reading. The Miss Marple of Joseph's The North Pool, now having its Northeas…
Returning to the Globe is its first Artistic Director, Mark Rylance, as the "bottled spider." Hs version of the monarch is an affable spider without much bottle, so self effacing is his perf…
A tense and exciting production sensitively directed by Julianne Boyd with a splendid cast to deal with the secrets and lies shadowing the on the surface American as apple pie Keller family …
At the center of this Westport Playhouse production is the invigorating performance of Marc Kudisch as the charlatan Tartuffe. Looking like an animated version of Nick Nolte's infamous DUI m…
While the iconoclastic Murray Burns is the central character in Herb Gardner's 1962 comedy, it's Russel Posner's young Nick Burns, who is the star of the Berkshire Theatr Group's revival
a sneak peek at Williamstown Theatre Festival's developmental production of the new musical based on the 2002 film . . . Read More
liked A Class Act well enough to look forward to seeing it once again, especially given the Berkshire Theater Group's synergistic summer 2012 scheduling. Their annual big musical at the Colo…
his may not be prime Shakespeare but it probably couldn't be treated more lovingly than it is here. If you've never been to the Hudson Valley Shakespeare Festival before, you might be taken …
With a bit of luck, enough good reviews and the positive-word-of- mouth that has been generated since previews began, this new musical will follow the path that catapulted Next to Normal mto…
