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Neil Labute's reasons to be pretty completes his trilogy on beauty. It's about time.
This revival of Pygmalion is served up in a pleasant if not especially demanding staging...call it Shaw Lite.
Never Forget may be a brainless jukebox musical-but it's all rather endearing-and delivered without a trace of cynicism.
Neil LaBute's 2004 off-Broadway hit Fat Pig has finally made it across the pond...and it still packs an emotional wallop. It underscores how easy it is to inflict pain on another person.
Gone With the Wind to close after the June 14 performance.
Ibsen's rarely seen Rosmersholm is receiving a top-drawer Almeida Theatre revival from Tony winner Anthony Page A Doll's House
The passage of time has rendered The Common Pursuit, Simon Gray's 1984 play, into a poshly spoken soap opera.
Kevin Spacey's Old Vic to host revival of Ayckbourn's The Norman Conquests
On its own merits, Crybaby is a charming, if inconsequential trifle...but that's okay.
This Deep Blue Sea has audiences laughing at the characters rather than feeling for them
Bebe Neuwirth is a knockout, in what, incredibly is her first solo show in so intimate a setting as Feinstein's at Loew's Regency.
The New York premiere of Conor McPherson's Port Authority is given an excellent production under director Henry Wishcamper. It's poignant and often funny.
Spring Awakening to awaken in London at Hammersmith Lyric come 2009.
Les Miz crowd prepares to welcome two new players to their show and their new musical Marguerite.
Gad zooks! Shakespeare's Globe to offer new play set in Modern London
Good Boys and True is a great idea for a play. Too bad, its excellent cast is wasted on a mostly dull drama.
Hardly, if ever seen in revival, this production of Funny Girl is efficient enough to engage your attention. Its star Samantha Spiro is no you know - who who could be another Barbra Streisan…
This dull version of The Good Soul of Szechuan may prompt uninitiates of Brecht's work to flee in self-defense.
The second half of Shakespeare's eight-play history cycle here presented for all too short a time.
Even now, 50 years after its premiere, Harold Pinter's career-making The Birthday Party marches to its own dread-inducing drum.
The Acting Company makes a strong case for this revival of Eccentricities of a Nightingale- a play that has not had a major revival in New York since its premiere in 1976.
Terence Rattigan's The Deep Blue Sea is an old-fashioned well-made play, given a fine production under the direction of Edward Hall. It still has the power to engage ones emotions.
A change of venue to the Duke of York's from the Royal Court Upstairs has somewhat diminished the striking debut of Polly Stenham's That Face . .
