The Edinburgh fringe is renowned for craft and originality, so where's the allure of watching sofa surfers talk to each other?There are a record-breaking 500-plus shows on the fringe this ye…
In the first of our dispatches from the Edinburgh comedy frontline, we look at why standups are a lot like strippersFive days in Edinburgh and already I've seen five strangers naked, and two…
A new one-act opera, "A Blizzard on Marblehead Neck," directed by Francesca Zambello, has its premiere at the Glimmerglass Festival.
Tony Award winner Alan Cumming will star in a staged reading of Tennessee Williams' The Notebook of Trigorin, to be presented by Classic Stage Company on Sunday, February 13, at 7pm.A free a…
Anna Deavere Smith elevates healthcare debate in "Let Me Down Easy," her solo show at the Broad Stage.
In "Red Cloud Rising: The Fifth Wall," participants must separate fact from fiction as they scour Lower Manhattan for clues to a feared force in international commerce.
The ousted director of 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark' ignored basic tenets of the Broadway stage, and it cost her, and the show, dearly.The ousted director of 'Spider-Man: Turn Off the Dark…
Reports on Henry IV, Part Two, Love's Labor's Lost, and The Pirates of Penzance, and the establishment of the tent theater, Bowmer in the Park.
Charles McNulty writes about the extraordinary British actresses on the London stage this summer.
Three different but equally theatrical productions in London provide a kind of catharsis for theatergoers who are fed up with the hypocrites who rule their worlds.
London's stages are filled with revivals of long-ago plays, including those by Friedrich Schiller, Henrik Ibsen and Carlo Goldoni. The well-performed works are surprisingly relevant to today…
Charles McNulty explores the explosion of revivals in the london theater scene this summer
Though it's been ticking away in its little room at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art since mid-May, not everyone has discovered "The Clock." Unlike London and New York, where crowds line…
Performance Space 122 is closed for a multiyear renovation. There is much to gain, but something will also be lost.
Theater critic Charles McNulty evaluates the first year of RADAR L.A.
The inaugural theater festival offers fleeting encounters with cockeyed universes. In other words, it was a resounding success. Now, can we do it again next year? The inaugural theater fest…
There were few surprises as crowd-pleasers 'Book of Mormon' and 'War Horse' took top prizes. But it would have been nice to spread the love.There were few surprises as crowd-pleasers 'Book o…
Working with Joseph Papp at New York's Public Theater and Emily Mann at Princeton's McCarter Theatre proves to be good training for a theater critic.Working with Joseph Papp at New York's Pu…
A UCLA conference gathers a creative and philosophical group to ponder the contemporary artist's place in society. The age-old question persists: Can art change the world?Forty years ago, ar…
Despite many bright notes, theater in New York seems to be having an identity crisis.
Attendance is up and artistic moods are brighter. On the other hand, the gap between commercial and cultural is widening, trailblazing Yanks still lose out to Brits, and ticket prices are ob…
Whether it's with external dazzle or internal luminosity, British performers Brian Bedford and Mark Rylance and Americans Bobby Cannavale, Joe Mantello and Al Pacino set the lead actor categ…
Two new excellent Criterion Collection DVDs offer different takes on the Gilbert and Sullivan operetta: a 1939 Technicolor fantasy and Mike Leigh's 1999 biopic 'Topsy-Turvy.'Two new excellen…
There are difficult choices to be made from an uneven year, though 'The Book of Mormon' seems a sure bet for best musical and the play category is strong.There are difficult choices to be ma…
Recent recordings of George Gershwin's concert works and 'Porgy and Bess' may not be Americans' idea of Gershwin — but is Gershwin, played with love and care and imagination."Who says …