FRIENDS WITH CHILDREN Gay parents — for centuries that seemed a contradiction in terms. How could promiscuity engender anything beyond itself? But, if, as Delmore Schwartz said, "With …
The anchor of the play is Philip Riccio as Clark, who through understated but profound character work draws the audience into Clark's psyche and his dilemma, writes Karen Fricker.
Arena Stage is making a limited number of tickets to its productions of Kleptocracy and The Heiress available for free to furloughed Federal employees, Arena Stage informed DCTS today. In ad…
The Garrick's panto might not be the most innovative around but it boasts high production values and a fine pair of comic performances.
Wit, whether visual or verbal, can make the commonplace uncommon again by breaking the habits that render perception routine. We tend to define the quality of wit as merely being deft with a…
In celebration of its third yearon Broadway, Warner Bros. Records released SCHOOL OF ROCK Original Broadway Cast Recording Deluxe Edition. This Deluxe Edition comes across more as a hackneye…
Shattered Globe Theatre and Theater Wit are pleased to present the Chicago premiere of Will Eno's heartbreaking new comedy THE REALISTIC [...] The post Sh…
The Pulitzer Prize-winning drama, Wit, by Margaret Edison, opened Friday to a nearly sold-out audience at the new and intimate Iron Horse Theatre in Ambridge. We meet Vivian Bearing, Ph.D., …
Scena Theatre's production of Woman of No Importance promises Oscar Wilde's signature cocktail of witty banter and razor sharp wit combined with the ridiculousness of the upper crust exposed…
BITTER END The gulf is clear from the start. Joe Schermoly's set consists of interconnected boxes that create shelves which suggest two apartments separated by a crosswalk. It's an apt depic…
On Monday, Shattered Globe Theatre and Theater Wit announced casting for the Chicago premiere of Will Eno's "The Realistic Joneses." It will be directed by Theater Wit artistic director Jere…
A SHOW TO END ANY THEATER DROUGHT It's a "big sky" story with a ton of heart, this other musical created by Harvey Schmidt and Tom Jones, composer and lyricist of The Fantasticks…
MARY SHELLEY'S ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: FRANKENSTEIN’S TRICK IS OUR TREAT Creating a Halloween story for all seasons in a novel that launched a terror genre, Mary Wollstonecraft Shelle…
When Stendhal heard La Cenerentola a few years after its 1817 premiere he branded it trivial and vulgar. Post-French Revolution, Rossini's noisy
Ian Hislop and Nick Newman's script for Trial By Laughter at the Watermill is full of the characteristic satire you would expect and abounds with humour and wit.
Bristol Riverside Theatre's 'Erma Bombeck: At Wit's End' portrays the legendary humorist with warmth and wit. Mark Cofta reviews.
Anti Disposition's Much Ado About Nothing is a visual treat that's chock full of wit and impeccable physical comedy, not to mention the beautiful musical interludes " a glorious Shakespearea…
The story of a black undercover cop who tricked his way into the Klan is both entertaining and chastening
Shakespeare's Globe, LondonThe supposed dark lady of the sonnets is transformed into a convincing symbol of exploited women through the agesWhat do we know of Emilia Bassano? That she lived …
Traverse, EdinburghThe activist-comedian takes the temperature of universal healthcare and delivers a grave diagnosisMark Thomas is standing centre stage, feet splayed, shoulders feeling the…
Morgan JamesandEllyn Marie Marshpresent 'Gettin Peggy Wit It' Peggy took time out of her busy schedule to check in with six green girls of Broadway past Eden Espinosa, Caroline Bowman, Julia…
By Myra Chanin Sholem Aleichem, aka "The Jewish Mark Twain," was not always a hilariously funny writer. Life was never fun and games for the poor shtetl Jews he immortalized…
Richard Strauss's opera sounds delicious, while Antony McDonald's production skilfully negotiates the plot's twists and turns
The movement just keeps building: On Wednesday, it was announced that "Haymarket," Underscore's folk musical about the 1886 Chicago battle between cops and labor organizers, will go on an ex…
Old Vic, LondonSally Cookson delivers an exhilarating production of Patrick Ness's story about a lonely boy coping with grief, bullying and a monster in a yew treeSometimes it is good to go …