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Conceived by Natalia Koliada, Nikolai Khalezin, and Vladimir Shcherban this repertory offering of Belarus Free Theatre is most effective when most political.
Nikolai Khalezin and Natalia Koliada's powerful play is the most conventional, focused, and accessible of the three shows being offered in repertory by Belarus Free Theater.
The play "Clybourne Park," Bruce Norris' riff on "A Raisin in the Sun" that examined race relations and the effects of modern gentrification, won the Pulitzer for drama prize.
The interrelated stories of Kari Bentley-Quinn's funny, sexy play are brought to powerful life by a top-notch cast, including yet another terrific turn from Susan Louise O'Connor.
This update of Lewis Carroll's classic children's books fuses "The Wiz" with self-help psychobabble for a gloppy mess of a musical.
Kathleen Turner is as confused as anyone about this heavenly detour when she makes her first appearance as a Roman Catholic nun in the play "High," opening this month on Broadway.
The original version of the troubled $65 million Broadway musical "Spider-Man Turn Off the Dark" will take its final bow after this weekend's performances.
Tony Glazer's slim comedy could have been a pointed satire of our media-mad age but settles instead for 90 minutes of unfunny jokes.
At the 35th annual Humana Festival of New American Plays at the Actors Theatre of Louisville, which runs through April 17, none of the full-length works featured more than six actors.
Gloriously theatrical and almost unbearably moving, this testimonial to the power of honest sentiment from Britain's National Theater is a never-to-be-forgotten theatrical experience.
Matthew Broderick and Anika Noni Rose will announce the Tony nominations on May 3 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
Producers of a new Batman stage show have told the BBC the production will not suffer the same problems as Broadway's troubled Spider-Man musical.
The New York Philharmonic's star-studded production of Stephen Sondheim's "Company" is heading to a movie screen near you starting June 15.
This high-gloss production nicely nails the author-director's absurdist punch lines but is less than convincing when it comes to illuminating the play's underlying premise.
Tom Wopat admits that working for close to six years on the musical "Catch Me If You Can," from workshop to a Seattle run to Broadway, was both "productive" and "painful."
It doesn't take long for an interview with Broadway veterans and Tony Awards winners Sutton Foster and Joel Grey to evolve into something more like a vaudeville routine.
David Greenspan's new play is a 70-minute slice of joy about the rebirth of the human spirit. I left the theater more than a little bit in love.
The union representing singers and production personnel at NYC Opera has declared that a strike beginning April 30 "seems a virtual certainty" if no agreement is reached by April 29.
A miscast Chris Rock throws off the balance of Stephen Adly Guirgis' provocative and profane comedy-drama, but there is still plenty to praise.
This staging of Ukrainian Oleh Lysheha's haunting poem derives its power from the text but is undermined by puzzling staging choices that counteract it.
Tenor Juan Diego Florez has really delivered: a host of high Cs to a worldwide audience of millions—and minutes earlier, his own baby boy in New York City.
Finding no compelling reason for its characters to sing, this synthetic musical adaptation of Steven Spielberg's 2002 film ranks as the Broadway season's biggest disappointment to date.
Maxwell Anderson's classic look at evil veiled by innocence needs better production values and a more calculating murderess, but it's an enjoyable old-fashioned well-made play.
Mona Mansour's moving play, centered on a family of Palestinian refugees in Lebanon, has a familiar theme and a few structural flaws but displays plenty of promise.
Larry Kunofsky's well-intentioned but unwieldy new play, lacking the fast-moving, satirical style it's premise needs, will hardly do much for the cause of gay marriage.
