John Bunzel may be a veteran film and television writer, but he has never wandered far from his roots in the theater, where he has been plying his trade for more than 30 years. Anyone who ha…
The idea still makes people uneasy but two new plays " Fighter and The Sweet Science of Bruising " explore the courage, pain and history of women boxers
'I always try to say this without sou…
Since its Broadway debut in 1992, Falsettos has been hailed as a moving love story and a profound exploration of masculinity and sexuality. The 2016 Broadway revival continued to garner grea…
Madison.com reports that following the cancellation of a moderated panel after a performance of Miss Saigon at the Overture Center, scholars and educators from the local university took to p…
American play from mid-'90s resonates afresh todayIn the history of early photography in the Middle East, it was the Armenian Christian traders and their descendents who became the pion…
The 2010 'spy in the bag' murder is the inspiration behind Kompromat, a new play by David Thame which imagines the murderer using a honey trap to ensnare his victim.
The white-hot rage and caustic bitterness against de-industrialization, unemployment, minorities, and immigrants, not to mention races and religions other than white and Christian, may have …
Two-hander with a Walt Whitman poem and a clever twistHere's a good pub quiz question: after Shakespeare, who was the most performed playwright in America last year? Arthur Miller? Tennessee…
Though Robert Icke's didacticism can be irritating, this Wild Duck undoubtedly pulls its modern audience into Ibsen's tense, spiralling emotions to powerful effect.
MCC Theater brings back Jocelyn Bioh's 'School Girls; Or, the African Mean Girls Play,' a cutting comedy with an emotional wallop centered around six school girls in Ghana preparing for a be…
Joy Wilkinson's The Sweet Science of Bruising, about 'lady boxing' in Victorian times, feels like such a riotous shock to the system. Best of all, it nails this with a story that breaks down…
Snooker, anyone? Anyone? British plays may be as abundant on Broadway as mushrooms in a rain-soaked forest, but "The Nap," by Richard Bean, may seem exotic even to the most obsessive theatri…
Never mind that Sarah Bernhardt " the towering actress of her day " was scarcely more than 5 feet tall. Janet McTeer stands nearly 6-feet-1, but that hasn't stopped her from playing Bernhard…
Su Pollard's Birdie, like the play Harpy, isn't the persona she presents. The wit and humour give way to something that feels like an emotional punch in the gut.
Hudson Theatre, New YorkA zippy, frothy combination of songs from the Go-Go's and a bawdy Shakespearean comedy plot delivers goofy, if forgettable, funJust your everyday genderqueer pastoral…
As directed by Michael Grandage, whose revival of John Logan's Red is just around the corner at the Wyndham's Theatre, The Lieutenant of Inishmore proves that some black humour doesn't age.
