The Wooster Group: An Ensemble Tailor-Made for an Age of Anxiety By BEN BRANTLEY
The Wooster Group's "House/Lights" seems like one crazy, exotic head trip, until you notice its resemblence to daily life in the 21st century.
Serving Up Giddiness in London's Silly Season By BEN BRANTLEY
The early days of winter in the London theater scene have brought a wave of panto productions featuring balmy songs, bad puns and cross-dressers.
A Shrew and Her Tamer: Two Views, One Famous by BRUCE WEBER
Gregory Doran directs the inspired coupling of "The Taming of the Shrew" and "The Tamer Tamed" with extravagant comic flair at the Kennedy Center in Washington.
Words to the Wise Performance Artist: Get Help. Collaborate. Grow. By MARGO JEFFERSON
Most performers don't see the need to collaborate, but joining with complementary talents expands horizons and makes the work stronger.
Puppets Mine Unexpected Emotional Territory by BEN BRANTLEY
Basil Twist's custom-made puppets get under your skin in Paula Vogel's ritualistic new drama by the Trinity Repertory Company.
Soul of Old Is Breaking Out All Over by ELVIS MITCHELL
A new film documenting the history of soul music is part of a larger revival of interest in the genre.
Includes "The Jackie Wilson Story."
Annie Baker’s distinctively bittersweet sounds of silence are echoing throughout the Boston Center for the Arts, where three of her plays are being performed, with considerable skill …
Pardon Me, Sir, but Your Auricular Instrument Is Flat by ANTHONY TOMMASINI
How to handle the delicate situation of having to tell a hard-of-hearing member of the audience to turn down the hearing aid.
When a Book's Epilogue Is Created on the Stage by MARGO JEFFERSON
Two plays based on classic stories lure us into the eternal present of performance while keeping us grounded in literary and cultural history.
The Public Faces Life Without Its Dynamo by BEN BRANTLEY
The director George C. Wolfe has had a significant hand in almost every memorable production at the Public Theater in the last ten years.
Rock the Cradle? Let's Rock the World by NEIL GENZLINGER
Two currently running plays, "The Ladies" and "Summit Conference" are both well-acted tales of the consequences of women in power.
Cabaret, the Champagne of New York by STEPHEN HOLDEN
In terms of bang for the buck, a great cabaret performance provides a more transporting emotional experience than a brassy Broadway musical.
Jez Butterworth's "Jerusalem," the hit of London's summer theatre season-which just closed at the Royal Court and which will probably be coming soon to a repertory theatre near you-is except…
Julie Taymor made a mess of it. New people are being brought in to fix it. Amid all the spectacle, here's the moral of the story.Julie Taymor made a mess of it. New people are being brought …
Two days before the scheduled premiere, the Los Angeles Opera postponed the opening of "Grendel" because of computer-related problems and a mechanical breakdown.
