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With this powerful and original work, director Jonathan Bank and his Mint Theater Company strengthen their case for Teresa Deevy as a formidable and too-long-lost voice in Irish theater.
The New York International Fringe Festival announced the winners of its 2011 Overall Excellence Awards on Monday.
Broadway planned to reopen Monday after Tropical Storm Irene forced theaters to scrap a potentially lucrative late-summer weekend.
The actors and crew will host a small backstage party at intermission during Friday evening's performance to mark the moment when it becomes the fourth longest-running show in Broadway his…
Erin Krom and Nikki Van Cassele deliver moving performances as Daisy and Violet Hilton, the Depression-era conjoined twins, but the production's sloppy music direction muffles what should …
"Someone asked if we give reality show characters stars? Hell to the No!" writes a spokesperson on Facebook.
After playing the iconic nanny on the North American tour of "Mary Poppins," Steffanie Leigh will step into the title role on Broadway at New York City's New Amsterdam Theatre starting Tue…
Oscar-winning songwriting greats Alan and Marilyn Bergman rarely wrote a song with Barbra Streisand in mind. Yet Streisand turned out to be one of the greatest interpreters of their iconic s…
This solo show briefly ascends into the clouds near its climax, but for much of its 70 minutes the play is an earthbound history lecture.
This spectacularly produced musical about a real-life Korean patriot features strong performances and stirring music, but its human values tend to be overwhelmed by its spectacle.
Ballroom moves and childhood memories mix in Kay Scorah's delicate and sweet dance-theater piece as terps Erin Hunter and Faith Hunter Kimberling step out like a pair of graceful ghosts.
This adaptation of Roland Topor's Kafkaesque novel, which also inspired Roman Polanski's 1976 film, is more confusing than intriguing. Gabriel Hainer Evansohn's production design is the mo…
Creator Cody Lucas takes the gruesomeness of the Grimm Brothers fairy tales several steps further in this heavy-handed and directionless production, which devolves into an unfocused, sadis…
Theater is Hope Davis' first love. That may be surprising for someone who claims that she once had stage fright so bad, she considered quitting acting.
Producers said Tuesday that Daphne Rubin-Vega, who played Mimi in the original cast of "Rent" and Conchita in "Anna in the Tropics," will play Stella in Tennessee Williams' sultry drama.
Snooki, JWoww, and the Situation come in for a merciless parodying in this riotous riff on the excess of reality TV.
Performers work hard to transition between musicals and nonmusicals, when given the opportunities.
In this sensitive, intelligent, but uneven play, writer-director-star Jezabel Montero asks and then answers the question: Is it possible for a bisexual to be a monogamist?
In Mark Jason Williams' new play about dealing with terminal illness, the prognosis is not great when lead roles are less interesting than supporting characters.
Tweets, texts, and status updates are the unlikely subject matter of this insightful overview of coming of age in the digital era.
You've got to hand it to him: Chris Phillips has nerve. It's not everybody who would put his own versions of iconic Tennessee Williams characters on stage in serious dramatic scenes.
Simon Russell Beale demonstrates that he's one of the most sensitive actors working on either side of the Atlantic in this intensely moving profile of a lonely taxi driver.
Author-performer Tayo Aluko's one-man show about the great Paul Robeson is at its best when it is being most political, but it's less successful as a portrait of the artist.
Ashley Lloyd Smith's one-man show about the lighter side of suicide never lets us forget that we're watching an actor doing his multiple-character bit.
Andrew Belcher's scattered satire of immigration law, government inefficiency, and much else lacks clarity, humor, resolution, and anyone on stage to root for.
