The Steppenwolf company in Chicago has announced a 2010-11 season with some mouth-watering shows....
Read OnIt's great that Hollywood has finally awarded the Best Director Oscar to a woman, namely Kathryn...
Read OnAnd by "big" I mean "long": Marathon freaks, get ready for a 12-hour staging of Dostoevsky's "The...
Read OnIf you follow mainstream theater, you know that there's a lot of hoopla around "Love Never Dies."...
Read OnI know, the competition is stiff, but last week's episode of "Law & Order: SVU" -- which I just...
Read OnRounding up the reviews of "The Miracle Worker" today (mine is here ), StageGrade wonders "Was it...
Read OnWhen I saw the subject line "Salem witch trials in Park Slope," my first thought was that someone...
Read OnAn article in today's Times (front page!) talks about the unusually high number of plays about gay...
Read OnBy aggregating reviews in one handy package, the blog Critic-O-Meter was playing a very useful...
Read OnHot on the heels of Alexi Kaye Campbell's "The Pride" (which I really, really liked ) comes another...
Read OnGeoffrey Nauffts' play "Next Fall" cov ers at...
What's 150 million years old, has skin like a...
Master director Paul Greengrass’ “Green Zone”...
Geoffrey Nauffts' play "Next Fall" cov ers at least two of this spring's theater trends: It centers on gay men, and it uses a jumbled timeline to tell the story. The show often drifts toward movie-of-the-week goodwill, but, then,... Read Full Story
IF modern dance had a museum, it would be Lyon Opera Ballet. Don't let the name fool you: This fine French company doesn't do classical ballet....
At the opening of Andrew Lloyd Webber's "Love Never Dies" Tuesday night, I ran right into the composer's wife, Madeleine. Beautiful and clever,...
If you see one show this season, make it "The Scottsboro Boys." It's as simple as that. And what an unlikely triumph it is. For starters, the...
Here's a way to get those "God of Carnage" grosses back up to $1 million a week -- an all-star, African-American cast. Yasmina Reza, zee French...
The first 45 minutes of Andrew Bovell's "When the Rain Stops Falling" are disconcerting. The play starts off with a lengthy monologue that...
The Met's new production of "The Nose" should be a hit with everyone except headline writers. Had the Shostakovich comedy bombed, they'd quip...
Christopher Walken has an eccentric charisma, his hangdog, sorrowful demeanor spiked with a twisted kind of charm. The mix is a perfect fit for...
How many times have we witnessed a tantrum and wished that someone, any one would intervene? "The Miracle Worker," which returned to Broadway last...
After the bungle in the jungle that was "Tarzan," the 3-day-old fish that was "The Little Mer maid" and the soggy umbrella that is "Mary Poppins," I...
William Shakespeare as a play wright? Brilliant. As a character in a play? Not so hot. So proves "Equivocation," Bill Cain's ambitious comedy...