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The Irish Repertory Theatre provides the perfect intimate setting for this monologue play featuring a blazing performance from Geraldine Hughes.
Charm, smarts, and delightful performances make the familiar terrain traveled by this romantic comedy seem suddenly fresh.
The estimable Mint Theatre Company comes a-cropper with this ill-judged production of Arnold Bennett's musty 1909 play about London tabloid journalism.
David Parsons' choreographic style might be tagged "modern dance lite," yet out of a buoyant lexicon grounded in selective borrowings from classical ballet, Graham technique, and Paul Taylor…
Under Mark Brokaw's fleet and shiny direction, the 12-person cast of "The New York Idea" delivers top-flight performances.
How much do we love an after-hours "Willkommen," especially if it involves lingerie, men in makeup, and more than a few spankings?
This fine concert version of Maxwell Anderson and Kurt Weill's rarely performed 1938 musical political satire can't disguise the show's flaws, but American musical history buffs shouldn't mi…
Though compellingly acted and handsomely staged, this rarely produced surrealistic play by Federico García Lorca remains frustratingly elusive in its meaning.
There is both sexual and literary chemistry in this modest but effective Pearl Theatre Company production of Molière's classic.
Taylor Mac and the Talking Band's new play about failure feels as if it gives up way too easily.
Parallel Exit's new show is less narrative-oriented than before, but it's nevertheless a hysterical hour of masterfully performed physical comedy.
Gallim Dance offered a stunning performance of its artistic director Andrea Miller’s intriguing "For Glenn Gould," while the talented performers of Sidra Bell Dance New York made all t…
The cast doesn't quite live up to the demands of Ralph B. Peña's sophisticated and moving play of identity and loneliness, in this revival from Ma-Yi Theater Company.
Diana Amsterdam's touching dark comedy about death is a gloomy but lively circus of manners that urges audiences not to fear the reaper.
This intimate, uneven staging of Shakespeare's late romance uses only six performers, two of whom deliver sterling turns.
Actor-writer Scott Brooks' new work about the horrors of Hollywood plays like a contrived revenge fantasy loaded with far too much self-pity.
The breakup of the former Yugoslavia is weighed against the breakup of a high school rock band in this award-winning play.
The two-time Tony winner balances ballads and comedy numbers with tales of Tinseltown and personal moments in a polished hour. The only complaint is that it's a shade too polished.
This embarrassingly amateurish collection of three one-acts does violence to the reputation of its author, Renaissance man John Gruen.
Brian Bedford stages a near-perfect rendition of Oscar Wilde's whimsical classic and gives a pitch-perfect performance as Lady Bracknell without stooping to drag-queen excesses or even raisi…
Henrik Ibsen's penultimate play suffers from a surfeit of melodrama, but Alan Rickman, Lindsay Duncan, and especially the fiery Fiona Shaw save it from its plotty excesses.
Richly dramatic and keenly observant, "Other Desert Cities" is a hugely satisfying mixture of the political and the personal, grandly acted by a brilliant ensemble of five under Joe Mantello…
A pale, truncated take on the Faust legend, this 20-year-old "trunk" play, by the late Jovanka Bach, wasn't ready to be read, much less performed. It still isn't.
This cabaret act plunked down in an Off-Broadway theater has its charms but plays it awfully safe, settling for "pleasant" and "friendly" and failing to convey the excitement Carol Channing …
Despite admirable attempts at CPR by a valiant cast, director, and creative team, novice playwright Tommy Nohilly's calamitous family drama does not pull through.
