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In Bruges can't quite escape the feeling of being a second-hand knock-off Pulp Fiction. Much of the script seems calculated to shock.
As with most of Mike Leigh's work, Two Thousand Years is a truthful look at a British family. It's also that rare play that successfully mixes politics, religion and domestic infighting.
Yet another revival of Oscar Wilde's The Importance of Being Earnest. This one is okay, with a domineering Lady Bracknell, in the person of Penelope Keith. No surprises, but enjoyable.
Hunting and Gathering doesn't have the most compelling of plots. It does, however, have engaging characters, and they mostly make up for the lack of dramatic action.
Lucinda Coxon's Happy Now? is an accomplished and highly likable play. The question in the title is not so easily answered, given just how easy it is to make someone unhappy now.
The Lover/The Collection, two early plays by Harold Pinter, are dazzling well served by director Jamie Lloyd. The plays are sexy, smart and...funny.
Deathbed is one of those plays that piles short vignettes on each other like so-many TV clips. In this case, all centered on one theme...death.
John Mortimer's double bill of legal drama, aptly called Legal Fictions and starring Edward Fox into the Savoy on Feb. 21
What a wonderful play- Uncle Vanya - to inaugurate a new playhouse. Peter Hall has given us a truly rare production of the Russian master, that reveals precisely what he meant by calling his…
John Doyle is at it again: His direction of Sondheim and Furth's Merrily We Roll Along, has the characters doubling and redoubling on various musical instruments. Sondheim's score continues …
This stage adaptation of Disney's The Little Mermaid falls all over the place. The cast may be talented but they're overshadowed by bad design, generic choreography and confusing direction
Truth be told, The Vertical Hour is minor David Hare. Yet, isn't it great to have a playwright who engages directly with the times in which we live.
Septuagenarian Edward Bond has never made it to the West End until this production of The Sea. The hit-and-miss nature of the staging should cohere and be fully felt as the run continues.
It's back: The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby. This six-and-a-half hour production down from the original's eight-and-a-half hours has some grand moments, but it doesn't set the th…
William Inge's Come Back Little Sheba is given a low-key, but effective revival. There's a dignity to this tale of lives led in quiet desperation. Could this be the start of an Inge revival?
Director Deborah Warner and actress Fiona Shaw have come up with a dazzling production of Beckett's Happy Days. Relevant for twenty-first century audiences, while still preserving the grande…
David Mamet's November is more like a two-hour sitcom than a political satire. And there's really nothing wrong with that.
The 39 Steps is fun, fast-moving and inventive. Just don't expect Hitchcockian suspense in the bargain.
The Lucille Awards for Outstanding Achievement off-Broadway to be held May 5 at the Union Square Theater
Beckett's darkly funny Happy Days is given a tremendous production at BAM's Harvey Theater. Credit director Deborah Warner and actress Fiona Shaw, for that bit of good news.
Patrick Marber's Dealer's Choice is a serious comedy that speaks volumes about addiction and obsession, fantasy and delusion.
This latest version of Much Ado About Nothing is edgy and neurotic... taking its cue from, shall we say, the maturity of its leading performers, Simon Russell Beale and Zoe Wanamaker.
The 2007-08 Broadway season is heating up. Here come the shows.
Is He Dead? should better have stayed undisturbed. The plot reads like a series of rejected comedy sketches.
The Family Plays is just as described: a double- bill of plays from foreign shores, each of which shows a family oblivious to the catastrophes that befall all too many lives.
