And while the cast is game, director Gordon Edelstein's slack revival moves slowly as the considerable foibles of these folks are revealed.
The Comédie-Française is for the first time offering productions of the French classics in Paris with English surtitles.
While it does not wholly sustain all of its rhythms or ambitions, Mark Brokaw's production of this savvy updating of the naturalistic classic is quite the smart, sexy and stimulating show.
Review by Andy Propst
Arts Council England has decided to rethink its decision to slash financing for 194 theaters, art galleries, orchestra, literary groups and the like.
A translation of Artaud's bitter billets-doux
A host of Broadway performers will take part in an upcoming evening to benefit Artists for Elephants.
Stars take turns creating quaint character portraits in "Talking Heads"
Majella Hurley, a dialect coach, talks about her work with the cast of "Pygmalion."
Alan Ayckbourn's Private Fears in Public Places
Robert Brustein slyly integrates Shakespeare's own words into the script, as well as his many winks and nods at future plays and plots and personalities. It all makes this irresistible theat…
Over the years there has been no shortage of plays, books, and other works about Shakespeare, but nothing quite like this. Here you'll find no guessing about who existed or wrote what; this …
Novelist's plan for a night of fringe plays in his flat grows into biannual week-long festival and competition, Montmartre Dionysia Continue reading...