Sound Is the Driver in a Race for Death by SARAH BOXER
CAMBRIDGE, Mass. — It's not every day that you can step into the same plot twice. "The Sound of a Voice," a new opera with music by Philip Glass and libretto by David Henry Hwang, presented in a premiere by the American Repertory Theater at the Loeb Drama Center here, is a twice-told tale.
You don't need a plane ticket to keep up with London's venerable stage troupe -- maybe just some popcorn
The 4 Seasons, those gaudy Jersey poets of the '60s, made a magical mix that endures.
To celebrate the 10th anniversary of "Rent," the original cast members performed the show in a semistaged version at the Nederlander on Monday.
The Live Arts Festival in Philadelphia offers a play drawing parallels between 1865 and 2015, and another work that brings cardboard characters to life.
Tony Award winner Alan Cumming appears in a one-night-only staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, freely adapted from Anton Chekhov's The Seagull, Feb. 13 at Classic…
Yellow Brick Road Leads Show Tunes Down a New Path by STEPHEN HOLDEN
The Nativity, Now Chasing The Rockettes by BRUCE WEBER
The Broadway-size and starry Christmas pageant that is "The Nativity" finds a permanent home in Washington Heights.
From Breezy Bollywood, Films Anything but Vérité by A. O. SCOTT
The touring film series "Cinema India!" offers glimpses into a parallel cinematic universe, one that is complex and sometimes puzzling but at the same time accessible and welcoming.
Rising Star nominees
The Mother of Us All (All of Us Modernists) By MARGO JEFFERSON
The Wooster Group's "House/Lights" combines two unlikely sources: Gertrude Stein's "Doctor Faustus Lights the Lights" and a 1964 B-movie.
Blessedly Short but Not at All Short-Shrifted By CHARLES ISHERWOOD
Good, bad or indifferent, one-act plays have been flooding the city's stages.
In 'Take Me Out' and 'Burn This,' Lessons in Major League Hits and Errors
Why I envy the first-time theatregoer
Arthur Miller's Willy Loman, the salesman who was beaten down by the system he so strongly believed in, still has a message for us today.
Classic Stage Company CSC, under the leadership of Artistic Director Brian Kulick and Executive Director Jessica R. Jenen, will present Tony Award winning actor Alan Cumming in a one night o…
Jerry Patch's departure from the Old Globe is a bad sign for the future of innovative works.
The Globe Theater's production of Shakespeare's "Twelfth Night" features Elizabethan costumes, music and props, not to mention the period convention of an all-male cast.
The Power and Pitfalls of Children in the Plot by MARGO JEFFERSON
Analyzing the effectiveness of filtering politics through a child's consciousness in three much-praised works: "Caroline, or Change" and "Aunt Dan and Lemon" and "Hiroshima Maiden."
Political Plays, Alive and Fiery by BRUCE WEBER
The theater of protest is suddenly alive and well, thanks to English playwright David Edgar and his American counterparts.
Black Theater: Beyond Definition by BRUCE WEBER
WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. — Maybe it's the obvious question here this week, during the semiannual National Black Theater Festival, which continues through Saturday at sites throughout this friendly, steamy Southern city. But ask for a definition of black theater, and no consensus really emerges.