A curtain call used to feel like the beginning of the end. Now, sometimes, it is only the beginning of a show’s second life. More and...
A great farce always feels a little like watching someone carry an impossibly tall wedding cake across a crowded room. Every wobble makes you gasp. Every...
For the first several minutes of Sleuth, I wasn’t entirely sure what kind of game playwright Anthony Shaffer (“Death on the Nile“) wanted me to play....
A musical flourish accompanies the parting of the red curtains, and a man stands, just to the right of the spotlight. He seems caught off guard,...
Every awards season brings with it a nagging, but all too-familiar mixture of excitement and longing. Still, few announcements inspire quite the same feeling of theatrical...
There is something particularly exciting and enticing about this; the shortest of limited runs in an off-Broadway space that only holds ninety-nine people. And it doesn’t...
A grand piano and a pink feathered gown, worn by the unexpected, usher us into this unapologetically delightful romp. Women in black tie and tails and...
Rain lashes the stage as John Millington Synge’s masterpiece comedy The Playboy of the Western World arrives at the National Theatre, with bodies moving through the...
It’s all delicious art deco inside Noël Coward’s Fallen Angels, revived most brilliantly at the Menier Chocolate Factory under Christopher Luscombe’s immaculate direction. The revival arrives...
Bryan Cranston, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Hayley Squires, and Paapa Essiedu in the West End production of All My Sons. Photo by Jan Versweyveld. The play opens in...
Frontmezzjunkies is positively vibrating with excitement over the news about Peter Shaffer’s Amadeus — that decadent, delicious battle of genius versus mediocrity. The new limited series...
“Can’t you remember?” he asks his wife, who is reclined with ease and tension on the angular couch, referring to the female guest who is arriving...
It seemed like the most fitting formulation for the Shaw Festival in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario to present Dear Liar, a play, written with care by Jerome Kilty...
“I have an idea…” she says brightly, and with that lightbulb moment, most of the mischief of this fabulous farce flies forward. It’s the lightest of...
Loneliness and love, two subtle but powerful constructs that rule the world and our senses, making us all act foolish and desperate at times, mostly because...
Three moonlit bodies motor out in an unexpected vehicle for a watery drop, hooded in wordless violence that sets the cinematic scene with a vengeance. It’s...
With a loud drumroll signaling our arrival, four one-act plays written by the phenomenally gifted and possibly “the most influential living playwright in the English language,”...
Smoke from so many cigarettes hangs in the air inside two large Broadway houses. Each drawing us into a different time and a different workplace rhythm...
Beautiful classical music floats in, transporting us to New York City in 1958, where a cigarette is lit in the dark, illuminating and drawing our gaze...
A quiet flies fast over the excited crowds that have gathered in downtown NYC at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, as Andrew Scott (Veracity Digital’s Sea Wall the Film)...
They gather together around a long split white table, filled to overflowing with black sound props and four microphones, wired up to the ceiling for amplification...
He walks in, agitated and disheveled, taking over the space as the lights dim and the country music plays. This is all as it should be...
Standing and singing a song of sorrow and freedom in a fevered red dress is the woman of the moment; The Duchess [of Malfi], played with...
It’s been another wild year, running back and forth from Toronto to NYC, with stops in London, England and London, Ontario, Canada. Mostly to make sure...
The line outside the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village was vibrating with excitement, including my own, as we made our way in to see...
