From the moment Karen Finley walks onto the stage, you are drowned in a torrent of words. Alternately raving, rhapsodic…
Theater
David Mamet’s stage language has become familiar to theater and film-goers over the last quarter century. Spare, sometimes cryptic, Mamet’s…
The extraordinary success of their dramatic collaborations in the 1930s has inextricably linked Kaufman and Hart as a classic tandem,…
Comedy, entertainment, but a whole lot more is served up in Big Love at the Pacific Resident Theater. This modern…
Big River The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (adapted from Mark Twain) Roger Miller and William Hauptman the original Broadway cast…
Playwright Mark ORowes lively compression of the second part of Shakespeares tetralogy of history plays detailing the ascension to power…
As his fondness for magician Ricky Jay (among other things) reveals, David Mamet loves tricks and puzzles. Consider the mysterious…
Fantastic! Fabulous! Overexposed superlatives to be sure but consider the source. The root words fantasy and fable immediately come to…
Hedwig rocks! Totally! So totally, in fact, that if youre not into stage smoke, strobe lights and amplified instruments, youd…
In 1991, Dramaten, the Royal Dramatic Theatre of Sweden, brought to the Brooklyn Academy of Music a version of Ibsen’s…
"In my end," wrote T.S. Eliot in Four Quartets, "is my beginning." Lanford Wilson’s latest play, Book of Days, receiving…
In this year of the centenary of Richard Rodgers’ birth, it has been commonplace to observe the divided consciousness of…
Sandwiched between The Gigli Concert and Bailegangaire, Tom Murphys Conversations on a Homecoming was first produced in 1985. Taking place…
If the rapid-fire, razor-sharp, razzle-dazzle spectacle of Steppenwolfs production of Glengarry Glen Ross was the highlight of the Dublin Theatre…