Kenneth Lonergan's Medieval Play , had to have been produced under threat of thumbscrews. Sir Ralph (Josh Hamilton) and Sir Alfred (T...

If My Children! My Africa! occasionally falls prey to schooling us, it is at least at the hands of the very gifted James A. Williams, a...

Photo: Joan Marcus Will Eno's Title and Deed seems to operate in a vacuum. Christine Jones's set hangs geometric shapes in mid...

Perhaps the greatest compliment I can send Company XIV's way is that this exciting, dance-fusion troupe (under the expert leadership of...

Photo: Ken Howard It's the strength of Tennessee Williams's A Streetcar Named Desire  that is reflected in the relative success...

Photo: Erin Baiano There is a great distance between any two people, not just across generations -- Leo (Gabriel Ebert) shows up at his...

Lonely, I'm Not; bored, I am. Paul Weitz's new play at Second Stage isn't awful, it's just awfully empty in its exclamato...

From the sound of it, Nice Work If You Can Get It is setting itself up from failure: classic Gershwin songs harshly bolted onto a Prohibi...

It's unprofessional of me, I know, but at a certain point in Clybourne Park , I stopped taking notes. I was just so enjoying Bruce No...

It's not hard to see what attracted David Auburn ( Proof ) to a historical subject like Joseph Alsop. The twenty odd years covered by...

In a departure from 2009's This Beautiful City and 2010's In The Footprint , this latest Civilians show, You Better Sit Down: Ta...

There's a star being caught in Peter and the Starcatcher, and it ain't the unnamed Boy (Adam Chanler-Berat) who will, by play...

The Big Meal  shifts across eighty years of dinners, starting with a random pickup between Sam and his waitress, Nicole, and ending with ...

More polished than your average tech-demo/theater-hybrid,  Planet Egg  takes up the baton from where the delightful  Alvin Sputnik: Deep ...

The Taming of the Shrew can be a very funny play -- and probably should be, lest one linger too long on the sexist implications that one...

I think we're well past spoilers on the plot of Porgy and Bess , but at the climactic point of the play, at which Porgy (Norm Lewis)...

Photo/Deborah Alexander This engaging work from Gideon Productions taps into the themes of humanity that made Mac Rogers's previou...

There's much to appreciate about the message at the muscular heart of The Lady from Dubuque , particularly David Esbjornson's flu...

I think I've figured out why some people are afraid of clowns: it's because they're kids who have never grown up. It can be a...

Hot damn; I still love Nina Arianda's performance as much as when I first encountered Venus in Fur  two years ago at CSC, but unfort...