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Laura Hitchcock reports on the American Theater Critics' assessment of Las Vegas as a theater city.
Ms. Ambrose is rightfully the star of this production. Giving her a run for her money -- and this is the shock -- is the tempest-in-a-teapot Christopher Evan Welch's Mercurio.
Anders Cato has put together a tightly knit, first-rate ensemble to create this portrait of friends as a family, with all of the complications of love and animosity that are part of all fami…
This is a philosophical play about lost shoes and also a cabaret with love songs. Ultimately it's just theater, blissfully free from the restrictions of definition.
Although not a truly beguiling production, this musical is magical in places so perhaps the criticism has been unfairly harsh.
If you're a vive la difference theatergoer who doesn't want to miss anything way off the beaten path, you'll want to catch this very different little musical.
Julianne Boyd couldn't have picked a better show to launch Barrington Stage's first full season in its spiffy new home in Pittsfield.
There is a simple, macho appeal to Stephen Lang's play. After all, how can you resist war stories that focus on those who come through fire and brimstone by virtue of sheer guts?
There's one major problem with Badge: it's is really a dark comedy, but isn't played as such.
If concept of the Greeks re-examined sounds too deep and philosophical for an easily enjoyable evening of theater, surprise yourself. Go see Target Margin make these two pieces add up to a p…
What's most intriguing about Ms. Ruhl's re-imagined myth is that it finally gives a starring role to the woman whose death inspired a trip to Hades but who has always been overshadowed by he…
Radio is both relatively straightforward and also enticingly suggestive.. .
While, about half way through it begins to feel like ten million hours instead of a mere hour and forty minutes, it's not a wreck on the order of Lennon or Ring of Fire. A bit of diddling wi…
No skull and crossbones about it, there are pirates of the Caribbean here that are doing just fine without Johnny Depp.
8 fiendishly clever examples of Alan Ayckbourn's predilection for theatrical jigsaw puzzles.
Sessions, had it arrived to a local stage several decades earlier, might have been considered an innovative or attention worthy musical.
When three outstanding actors take on the roles of the three major characters, the resulting production is not just a great evening, it's a must-see.
This dark tragi-comedy is unabashedly theatrical and entertaining, and as it is frequently punctuated by various strings of expletives, makes for a rather naughty night out.
Raine, a much touted first-time playwright, has more on her mind than a contemporary cocktail lounge version of a Shaw drawing room discussion play, or a dramatized version of one of those c…
Before I entered the theater I hadn't thought the most fascinating character in a play could be an inanimate object. And yet, in The Butcher of Baraboo there's just something about that meat…
Neil LaBute's plays are often more painful than pleasurable to watch. There are times, when you want to leave your seat and get away from his characters. But there's something about these pe…
It took over a hundred years for St. John Hankin's play to cross the pond. And, while air travel and technology have brought drastic changes into our lives, the things that shape our social …
The familiar musical strains of the 1949 film The Third Man accompany the estimable Christian McKay onto the stage at 59E59 Theaters, and for a moment, the music along with his character hat…
Henry Goodman heads a sparkling revival of Fiddler on the Roof at London's Savoy Theatre. Lindsay Posner's production was first produced in Sheffield for the winter holiday season and good r…
