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25 years on, Gerard Alessandrini's Forbidden Broadway- this version called Rude Awakening - is still popping the bubbles of musicals on the Great White Way. If this incarnation is somewhat t…
Kate Foydor's 100 Saints You Should Know is a well-made, but ultimately, forgettable, drama. That said, there is a moment of theater that is truly cathartic.
Carson McCullers' The Member of the Wedding at the Young Vic is getting a first-class production under Matthew Dunster's direction.
Playwright Horton Foote is amazing: Here he is is 92-years young and instead of worrying about his own affairs of estate, he's conjured up Dividing the Estate, a richly detailed and absorbin…
Benedict Cumberbatch gives a riveting performance as Berenger in Dominic Cooke's Royal Court production of Ionesco's Rhinoceros. The question posed: Is it better to lie down with the herd th…
Is this the best Macbeth ever? Well, not exactly. What truly impresses here, though, is the vision of director Rupert Goold . And Patrick Stewart's magnetic assaying of the title role
In A Disappearing Number, Complicite's Simon McBurney has been able to take the complex subject of higher mathematics and make it into an fascinating time in the theatre
Despite its grim story line, Parade delivers a compelling propulsive staging. Not bad for the directorial debut of Rob Ashford
The Royal Shakespeare Company, via BAM, gives us a sturdy rendering of Chekhov's moody masterpiece The Seagull. Ian McKellen is compelling in the mostly comic role of Sorin
Leo Tolstoy's most acclaimed work, The Power of Darkness, comes across more overwrought than transporting, in this Mint Theater production. Relentless could be its mantra
It's tricky business -converting anbsp successful movie into a stage play All About My Mother doesn't necessarily succeed on stage, but it's not a failure either. Call it a standoff- and thr…
Ian McKellen shines in the title role of this Royal Shakespeare Company production of King Lear, on at BAM's Harvey Theatre
The Atlantic Theatre Company has an excellent track record for coming up with entertaining plays. But, not so this time, with Scarcity. The show appears to exist solely to shock us...
Eugene O'Neill's early experimental play The Emperor Jones still has the power to move audiences. Paterson Joseph is superb in the title role.
Steve Ross is playing the Oak Room at the Algonquin-need we say more. Yes, he's doing the songs of Stephen Sondheim
With Edge, Paul Alexander gives us a more manic Sylvia Plath than we're used to seeing. And portrays her husband as the epitome of evil
Audiences will find a lot to feel uncomfortable about in America LoveSexDeath, Billy the Mime's ambitious, gaggle of routines, guaranteed to offend somebody
Let joy be unrestrained: Love's Labour's Lost ...is a winner. This delicate souffle is staged exceedingly well by Dominic Dromgoole and his creative team at Shakespeare's Globe.
Attention, shoppers. You'd be wise to skip Walmartopia - This is a musical spoof that falls short in the spoofing aisle
Upstairs Downstairs legend Jean Marsh into Boeing-Boeing on October 1
Adam Pascal and Anthony Rapp have returned to their roots, make that Rent and they're even better than they were the first time around.
The names in Charles Mee's play Iphigenia 2.0 may sound familiar, but the play bears little resemblance to its classic predecessor
Is He Dead? has really come alive.
In Lillian Hellman's The Autumn Garden, you need a scorecard to keep track of the players. The thing is, you really care about the twists and turns of their lives
What a wonderful late-summer night's diversion. Director Daniel Sullivan and his cry of players have the tone just about right in this most romantic of plays
