English Manners: A Review of The Importance of Being Earnest at Writers Theatre
A quickly paced and altogether wonderfully silly interpretation of Oscar Wilde's classic farce.
A quickly paced and altogether wonderfully silly interpretation of Oscar Wilde's classic farce.
Based in Los Angeles and making its local debut at Victory Gardens, Tanya Saracho's behind-the-curtain entertainment industry drama doesn't travel well.
The inaugural production from Firebrand Theatre resonates boldly.
The local premiere of this movie musical cult classic turned Tony Award winner will have you leaping from your seat.
Like its protagonists, this world premiere coming-of-age drama needs to focus more on personal growth.
Rohina Malik's living room romance is revived at the Goodman.
A bittersweet new play from Joshua Harmon ("Bad Jews") about being single and staying strong.
Court Theatre's production of this 1976 play about the poet Emily Dickinson falls short of a complete portrait of the complex Massachusetts native.
This production of José Rivera's Obie Award-winning magical realist play falls short on the magic.
Gian Carlo Menotti's Pulitzer prize-winning opera has aged into a fixated and tonally limited dystopia.
This latest piece from Hanson plays with perception by moving the audience through three rooms.
Like the repartee, the dancing is brisk and dazzles with its seeming ease, patterns and formations suddenly emerging from the action and just as rapidly dissolving.
This Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award-winning play is reimagined with a cast made up exclusively of women over the age of fifty-five.
This darkly imaginative world premiere is part Dr. Seuss and part "Peyton place" with a bit of "Goodfellas" thrown in for good measure.
This new, site-specific work shows how young artists tackle (sometimes literally) the obstacles in their lives.
This world premiere from Janine Nabers marks Will Davis' most daring directorial work to date at his new home company.
The second installment of Lyric's Ring Cycle stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the first.
This co-production with Red Tape Theatre marks a mature and invigorating new phase for Theatre Y.
"We're always wrestling with how to create a piece that an audience can connect to. That's by creating a logic, but then we also believe the logic breaks down because life doesn't work in a …
November dance brings a golden celebration, African Dance and movement and theater games. Dance along.
This inventive new work blends music and movement together to tell the story of a Eleonora Duse, once called "the greatest actor that ever lived."
A timely revival of Alice Childress' 1966 play about interracial love in the early twenty-first century American south.
This remount of Charles Dickens' novel is a reminder that art and insight need not exist separately.