-Besides a dream cast to make her choice of this play as smart as Barney Cashman's choice of women to dally with on his mother's convertible couch are not, Jessica Stone has an outstanding d…
How the Tony Award winning Scottish star Alan Cumming manages performing all the characters is something to marvel over. The difficulty is not just that Shakespeare's play has so many meaty …
The extgravaganza returns to Radio City for a limited return engagement. It's shorter and better
Fortunately, musical theater directors seem to be less impelled to diddle with firmly established works and ignore the old idage of don't fix what ain't broke. And Eric Hill, who's not avers…
As regular Curtainup readers know, plays with just one performer holding the stage aren't exactly my favorite things. Yet, every now and then along comes a new addition to this genre that co…
With Wilde's classic comedy produced so many times that it's hard not to stifle a yawn at the idea of yet another production. Therefore you can't fault director David Hyde Pierce for wanting…
Jim Henry's psychological drama, is being presented as a new play, but it has actually has been produced around the country for several years, including a stint at Missouri Valley College (2…
What a way for Barrington Stange to launch its 2012 Main Stage season! Broadway veteran Brad Oscar as a brilliantly nuanced Teyve, with more than two dozen performers to play his wife, five …
Greg Pierce is unquestionably one of the theater's sharper new talents. With Slowgirl he makes an impressive imprint on a season that is just getting into gear.
The title of Mark Roberts' tragi-comedy now in its East Coast premiere at Shakespeare & Co's second stage symbolizes the traumas that have haunted two brothers and their sister. Roberts, has…
a lovely low-key musical of lingering pleasures. For those without a rudimentary knowledge of Spanish, the title means "The Others." While little else requires literal translation, a sense o…
You'll immediately recognize the set of David Adjmi's 3C as a dead ringer " down to the ubiquitous house plants and rounded wooden door" for the set of the 1970s-1980s television show Three'…
According to the preface to Annie Baker's version of Chekhov's Vanya, whether it's a translation or adaptation depends on how the viewer defines the terms adaptation and translation. Actuall…
DiCapo Opera's four-week run of Frank Loesser's classic musical is a rare chance to hear it sung unplugged
As a genre, this takes a page from George Bernard Shaw's discussion plays. Yes, that means lots of talk. But it's good talk and, never tediously talky since Gina Gionfriddo has an impressive…
A thorough tune-up in preparation for the move to Broadway would help the production click on all cylinders. The writers just need to put the theatrical pedal to the metal.
The Atlantic Theater's long time home in a former church has just undergone an $8.3 million renovation. I can't think of a more apt play to initiate its main stage ithan John Patrick Shan…
The Wilma Theater, unfettered by concerns of fidelity to previous productions, presents a re-thought and re-staged Angels in America, and introduces a crisp new aesthetic: white.
Seemingly not content with the existing complexities of a show that spans 17 years, has various plots and subplots, and a cast of 28, director Timothy Sheader overlays this production with h…
A perfect play for Pride Month, this labor of love by Paul Oakley Stovall examines, raucously and gently, the challenge of how one minority learns to cherish another. Phylicial Rashad direct…
After two and a half hours of watching Sir Ralph, a sword wielding killer knight with a conscience, pursue his quest for his better self the best way to sum this up is to paraphrase Ralp…
Stephen Flaherty and Lynn Ahrens first major success now revived at the Papermill Playhouse
a traditional play waiting to come out of a solo show. . .
The latest offering from the Landor Theatre by the creators of I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change continues their exploration of love and relationships, with a particular focus on the ma…
The preachy speeches and too leisurely pace notwithstanding, Ruben Santiago-Hudson beautiful, subtly directed production and the impassioned performances manage to make this a moving look ba…