It was a roundhouse right.
It happened pretty fast, but that's how it looked from ringside, er, the audience. A roundhouse right from Mindy Kaling that knocked Brenda Withers off her pins and into next week.
Actually, it sent her to the hospital with a broken nose.
The setting looks like a ghostly, abandoned carnival with a rickety roller coaster rising to the stars and a disturbing motto blazing in lights: "Shoot! Win!"
It's an appropriate sideshow sentiment for "Assassins," the stunning, gut-punch of a musical that the Roundabout Theatre Company has had the good sense to revive at Studio 54.
Featuring four songs by the Knack's Berton Averre and keyboardist Rob Meurer, the Blank Theatre Co.'s deft three-hander is a kind of "Will and Grace" meets "The Bad and the Beautiful."
Neil LaBute's ferociously funny "Reasons to Be Pretty," about fragile human relationships and the seemingly inconsequential details that threaten or even wreck them, has traveled successfull…
"The Exonerated" is one of the most viscerally moving nights in the theater I have ever experienced. From the moment the lights come up on the dimly lit stage
Bush, LondonBased on the life of Jack Johnson, the first black heavyweight world champion, this gritty tale of sporting ambition is something special Continue reading...
Their initial concept for Fight Night, where actors voted each other out of a performance, was almost forgotten by experimental theatre company Ontroerend Goed. Years later, the freeze in th…
Someone hitting it out of the park " theatrically speaking " is always a joy to watch. But I've long been an admirer of the all-important (and much rarer) successful follow-up. What's better…
What price glory? That is the ultimate, yet far from the only question posed in "The Royale," Marco Ramirez 's astonishing 75 minute play " a tightly laced glove of a drama about race, succe…
When a play is about race, should the playwright's matter? I found myself asking this question after seeing Rasheeda Speaking, a wild ride and a welcome surprise from the severely hit-or-mis…
Gina Gionfriddo’s “Rapture, Blister, Burn,” now receiving its Chicago premiere at the Goodman Theatre, bears ...
The post ‘Rapture, Blister, Burn’ lacks emotion…
Drury Lane Theatre's grand-scale, emotionally wrenching production of "West Side Story" is a vivid reminder of the musical's enduring mix of tragic grandeur and streetwise savvy.
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Currently playing at the Menier Chocolate Factory in London, England, this historical musical resonates in equal parts harrowing and hilarious with today's darkest nightmares.